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Excerpt from Port Arthur Illustrated: With a Description of Its Products, Resources and Attractions; May, 1889 Along Street, Port Arthur, there daily run all through trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the greatest on the globe. It is distant 993 miles from the Atlantic ocean, at Montreal on the east, and 1912 miles from the Pacific, at Vancouver on the west. On the north it has Hudson's Bay, about 500 miles away, and on the south the International boundary, at Pigeon river, is distant some 60 miles. It is at the head of navigation on Lake Superior, the greatest body of fresh water on the world, and from its splendid harbor in beautiful Thunder Bay extends an unbroken water connection to the Straits of Belle Isle and the Atlantic, through the. Other great lakes, the canals, and River St. Lawrerce, a distance of 2260 miles. The difference in level between Lake Superior and the point on the St. Lawrence near Three Rivers, where tidal influence ceases, is about 600 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.