Excerpt from An Official Handbook of Information: Relating to the Dominion of Canada, 1897; Published, With the Approval of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Government of Canada (Department of the Interior) The year were an increase oi.' $2 over 1882, notwithstanding the great reduction in the cost of transport in the meantime made by the railways. There are few countries in the world better serve] by railways than Canada. 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.