Excerpt from The Hudson Bay Road: 1498-1915

No one doubts that the Gulf of Bothnia is of incalculable service to the adjacent countries for the transportation of the crops which are their most important products, although the climate is said to be very rigorous, principally in Finland, in the northern part of which the sun is absent for the two months of December and January every winter, which itself lasts from six to nine months. Moreover, the area of Finland, north of the 6oth degree (which, by the way, represents the northern limit of Greater Manitoba), is square miles, or square miles less than the three constituencies of the Pas, Grand Rapids and Churchill Nelson, and its population is close to Although the soil is for the most part stony and poor, ten years ago its exports amounted to and its total foreign commerce to The attention of my readers may also be drawn to Archangel, a seaport on the White Sea, which is very much to Russia what Hudson Bay is to Canada. Arch angel is a city of inhabitants and is the capital of the province of the same name. The province contains square miles and has a population of people. The port is closed for six months by ice, being almost seven degrees of latitude further north than Fort Churchill.

This may serve to demonstrate that, all climatic conditions guarded, Manitoba has acquired much valuable territory, and that, the feasibility of the Hudson Bay route once admitted, the future of the Pas, the natural distributing point for the whole of Western Canada and its wonderful wealth in agricultural and other natural products, is assured.

The purpose of this book is chiefly to tell of the country along the Hudson Bay Railway now under construction, of Hudson Bay, the Mediterranean Sea of North America, and of the resources to be found in Manitoba's new territory.

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