News clippings compiled by Art Clowes
Revised To: December 2, 2002
Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, January 6, 1854 – THE GRAND TRUNK – The Canadian correspondent of the New York Tribune furnishes the following important information in reference to the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada:– Nova Scotian.
Rumours have for some time been in circulation of an intention on the part of the Government to issue $16,000,000 of Provincial debentures on behalf of the Grand Trunk Railway. The truth is, it seems, that £1,800,000 of such debentures are to be issued. The stockholders of the Grand Trunk have three descriptions of securities. One half consists of stock of the company, one fourth of the company’s bonds, and the remaining fourth of bonds convertible into Canadian debentures on completion of the road. Twenty per cent has been paid on the portion of the stock put into the market, and the amount realized is £720,000 sterling. The state of the money market is sufficient to raise fears that there might be some delay in the payment of the remaining instalments. To prevent this the Provincial debentures are to be issued. For the payment of 40 per cent on their shares the stockholders are to be entitled to exchange their convertible bonds for Canadian debentures on their paying the debentures up to full. The proceeds are to be invested in some kind of securities on behalf of the Province. The Canadian Government will have to pay six per cent interest on the debentures it puts into the market; but it will not be possible to invest the proceeds in any such profitable securities. The difference in the rate of interest, payable and receivable by the Government, will be paid by the Grand Trunk Railway company. By this means the success of this great scheme, in which $45,000,000 capital is embarked, is to be insured against the discouragement of the depressed condition of the money market.
And so only £720,000 has been realized out of £9,500,000, the Capital Stock of the Company, and to induce parties to pay up, “the Provincial Debentures” – which Mr. Hincks Telegraphed to Mr. Johnston last Session, would never be wanted, “are to be issued,” and then “the Canadian Government will have to pay six per cent interest on the debentures it puts into the market; but it will not be possible to increase the proceeds in any such profitable securities.” In other words, the Canadian Government is to be made use of as a convenient tool to save the Grand Trunk from Bankruptcy – to issue debentures in advance of the work, and take interior securities in payment. This is one way of getting a Railway “built for nothing” with a vengeance. The Canadian Government may save Jackson & Company from ruin, but it can only be done by depreciating the Provincial credit. Canadian Bonds were quoted at 115 not very long ago – what will they be worth when nearly two additional millions are set afloat in the English Money Market!
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, January 13, 1854 – BUCTOUCHE – A Buctouche correspondent writes to the Editor of the Freeman as follows:– “This place was visited on Saturday last by one of the most furious gales that has been experienced here for the last thirty years. It commenced from the South-South-East at about nine at night, gradually increasing till it swelled into a furious hurricane. Many buildings were unroofed or blown down. The roof of James McPhelim’s new steam mill, 120 feet in length, was blown off and carried to a distance of 70 feet in one sheet. Many buildings were entirely demolished. One unfortunate family was compelled to seek shelter during that fearful night, and narrowly escaped being buried beneath the falling rafters of their burning house. Our roads are completely strewn with broken and uprooted trees. Many a stately pine that long had braved the storms of ages and the revolutions of time, bowed its hoary head to the messenger of destruction that the Spirit of the Storm sent forth upon that fearful night.”
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, January 20, 1854 – EUROPEAN & NORTH AMERICAN RAILWAY – Our new contemporary of the Free Press has in its seventh issue advocated the construction of the Railway from Shediac to Saint John, under the name of the “European and North American Railway.” He says – and of course this is a quiet hint for somebody – “Absurd surmises have been hazarded respecting their (Jackson & company’s) intentions. In those intentions we repose a confidence of a description similar to that which we cherish regarding the solvency of the Bank of England or the stability of the British nation.”
Who after that will deny the practicability and wisdom of the plan proposed, backed as it is by the extraordinary strong faith of the Free Press!
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, January 20, 1854 – GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY – The Whitney Reporter complains that some of the sub-officials of the Grand Trunk Railway, are obtaining gifts of land ostensibly for depots, by deceiving the people with promises that the depot will be placed in a particular locality if the owner thereof will previously make a gift to the deceiving party of a certain portion of his land. This, if true, is nothing better, than swindling, and should be enquired into by the Company.
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, January 27, 1854 – RAILWAYS – Before we proceed to the further investigation of the Railway subject we have a few personalities to settle with the Courier, and in the course of doing so we may perhaps be able to show our contemporary that sound is not sense, and that violence is not argument. Beaten back from every ridiculous position which the Courier had taken in the main question at issue, it has endeavoured to hide its discomfiture under the cover of certain charges which it affirms we brought personally against Mr. Jackson, in our statement that at the time of his signing the Railroad agreement he had no power of Attorney for so doing. Now the Courier knows very well that no man in this Province had the right to dive to the bottom of Mr. Jackson’s portfolio, or to enter into the private understanding which he had with his English associates, but it also knows, just as well, that in negotiating with the Government, Mr. Jackson exhibited no such document, and in the absence of such exhibition, we had at least a legal right to presume that it did not exist.
Our readers will remember, that in making our original affirmation, our object was to show that the more “word of honour” – as everything Mr. Jackson said while in this country was called – of any man should not pass current in important business transactions, and that the Government and the company in not calling for the legal authority of Mr. Jackson, had manifested a melancholy proof that they were anxious to grasp at any thing in the shape of a railway fiction to satisfy a party in Saint John – while Mr. Jackson himself in not voluntarily producing the document led to the presumption, as already said, that he had no such thing in his possession;- that he acted by the permission, not the authority of his partners. We also stated, that no organized firm of the kind could have an existence, as no one ever heard of a member of a business firm signing agreements as his own Attorney, and if our inference be an error, it is nevertheless as strong as it can be made by circumstantial evidence.
Let it be remembered that in all this we blamed not Mr. Jackson, but the very parties who are now, under the anonymous Editorship of the Courier, forcing this ruinous measure upon the Country. These we now publicly dare to the denial.
We are not yet done with the personalities. The Courier says:–
“It is always a painful task to have to contend with a disingenuous and unscrupulous adversary; and the above extract from the Fredericton Reporter of last week shows such an unblushing want of principle, that were it not that we feel called upon to expose a plot on the part of certain ingenious speculators, who are merely using the Reporter to aid them in another attempt on the Provincial purse, we would turn from such malicious slander with disgust.”
“Such a refutation and exposure, however, are rendered the more necessary, as it is evident from the leading article of the last Reporter, that an attempt is to be made at the approaching session of the Legislature to obtain more money for the Saint Andrews and Woodstock Railway, on the pretext that if the European and North American Railway is allowed to be constructed, annexation, slavery and republicanism are sure to follow; and that the only thing that can avert all these horrors, is to carry a railway through Fredericton to Canada!!”
In reference to the foregoing assumptions and allegations, we declare most unequivocally, and without the slightest mental reservation, that they are totally false and unfounded. We have not the most distant connection with the Managers of the St. Andrews Railroad, nor with any party or parties of speculators having any design upon the “public purse;” nor do we believe that any such party has an existence.
It were well for the writers of the Courier if they could come to the discussion of this subject with as clean hands as ours; and for their organ were it as free from the charge of being a “tool” as the Reporter. We know that we speak the sentiments of the outraged masses of the central district of New Brunswick; but we have not a direct communication with any one living on the subject. Beyond the mere payment for our services as reporter in the Legislature, and the general advertisement of the meeting of the House of Assembly, we are not indebted for the amount of twenty shillings currency to the “public purse” of New Brunswick. For many a day we vindicated the rights of the people to their own purse; aye, before the Courier, old as it was, had found a voice to raise in the cause of public retrenchment; and if our contemporary is newly awakened on the subject, that is no reason why it should abuse and vilify its neighbours, – those who led the way to the still seaters which it now occupies. Where now, we ask the Courier, rests the apology, and where is the “tool?”
We have heard – but we will not vouch for the correctness of the information – that there are persons of whom the Courier may know something, who find it necessary to stimulate Mr. Jackson to his work by a display of this controversy as the Spaniards raise the fury of certain animals by holding s piece of red cloth before their eyes at their court amusements; if so, we should deeply regret that anything we have ever said should provoke those gentlemen to a fulfilment of their agreement. We should consider the country much more favoured by its broach than its observance.
And now for a few words in relation to the real not the assumed question between the Courier and Reporter. Will the former, now that the anticipated communication with Nova Scotia and Maine are cut off, pretend any longer to impose upon the people as the “European and North American Railway” the stump of Dagon which lies between the Bend and Saint John? Or rather will the Legislature and people of this Province suffer themselves, in this stage of business to be deceived by such a demonstration? Our great offence against the Jackson bitten party in Saint John doubtless rests in the fact that we published not long since the famous Contract, which the Courier delighted to notice as an arrangement that would guarantee to the Province a great Imperial and American transit through New Brunswick without costing us a single farthing. We proved the utter fallacy of these assumptions; showing first, that so long as there will be an ocean steamer in existence, we can never expect such an intercourse – secondly, that if even made a mere funnel for the conveyance of passengers to and from the United States, that circumstance could be to us of little or no advantage; and lastly, that so far from having this notable line made by way of gratuity, we have already made ourselves liable to the amount of £500,000 for its construction and maintenance. Is it any wonder then, that in the eyes of the managers of the Courier, who for some cause of other – perfectly disinterested of course – have set their hearts upon a line to Shediac, we should be deemed every thing that’s intolerable and obstructive!
In good truth we suspect that the “European and North American Railroad,” so called, is at present in a sickly position. It has the gout in its feet, – its head is infested with a sad lethargy, – while the heart is injured by a bad circulation. We fear that not all the Candles in the Courier office can nurse it into convalescence. Besides this, the people of these Provinces are rapidly coming to the conclusion that they must be united – not to the American States, but among themselves; and under such circumstances, whether the Railway is run “through Fredericton” or not, there must be a Railway between Canada and the Atlantic; all the “bags of oats and barley” to be hauled on the Shediac line, to the contrary not withstanding.
Let the Courier resume its right mind: – let it take the position to which it is entitled, as the oldest Journal in the Province, in the advocacy of these natural rights which belong to Saint John and the Province; then, instead of giving it our most determined opposition, we will be happy to become its humble ally and helper; but never will it force us either by wrong insinuations for violent language to desert the interests of the country, and what we deem our own imperative duty.
To conclude, the Courier has we think most unwisely referred us to the Legislation of the approaching session; for it reminds one forcibly of a certain clause in the old act, which provides for the simultaneous construction of Lines to Miramichi and Fredericton; – a circumstance of which our contemporary will doubtless learn more hereafter. The act made by the Legislature, and the agreement drawn by Mr. Ritchie, are it appears sadly at issue. We observe, that except by way of ridicule, the Courier is recently silent respecting the line to Fredericton; but it is much to be hoped that after the sleeper question – got up so ingeniously in Saint John for the meeting of the Legislature – is disposed of, we may here expect a few crumbs of the common patronage.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 221 – Saturday, January 28, 1854 – NEW BRUNSWICK OCEAN STEAMERS & RAILWAYS – We would direct attention to the advertisement of W. & R. Wright, and J. & R. Reed, the proprietors of the Saint John and Liverpool Line of Packet Ships to be found in another column. The Courier states that this line of vessels, eight in number, has been in operation since February last, and during that period they have landed thirteen cargoes of goods at Saint John, also a large number of passengers. It will be seen by the advertisement that these enterprising gentlemen have entered into a contract with a party in England to furnish two first class screw Steamers to run between Saint John and Liverpool, one to be launched in April next, and the other in May. This undertaking has been engaged in under the impression that the Legislature of New Brunswick will aid them and it is their intention to apply at the next sitting for a grant of £10,000 per annum for ten years, for which they will carry the Mails to and from Great Britain.
This is undoubtedly an undertaking of much importance to City of Saint John, and there cannot be a doubt, that if proper arrangements are made and the whole thing placed on a footing to benefit the whole Province, as it might easily be, that not only £10,000 but a much larger sum could be obtained.
We regret to say that too large a portion of the press and the people of Saint John are shortsighted, the fog or something else prevents them from seeing beyond the precincts of their City. The determined opposition they have ever shown to the St. Andrews & Quebec Railway, is sufficient proof of this, and we have no hesitation in saying that had it not been for this opposition, had they not thrown every obstacle in the way, the road from St. Andrews to Quebec would have been nearly, if not quite completed, and it requires no stretch of the imagination to picture the immense advantages both to the Province and to individuals, to be derived from a line of steamers in connection with such a road. We believe that if this line of steamers is connected with a Railway to pass through or near Fredericton and unite with the St. Andrews & Quebec Railway that a grant of even a larger sum yearly than is now asked for will be given. Let what will be said to the contrary, we believe the E.A.N.A. scheme has exploded, and we further believe that the line to Miramichi and Fredericton was only got up to pacify the members from those quarters and that it was never intended they should be built. If it were not so why should it be necessary for the Courier, in reply to the Fredericton Reporter, to say anything in reference to the line to Fredericton? Why twit him of an attempt to ask aid of the Legislature for a road that we are told is already provided for? The fact is the road to Fredericton is not provided for nor was it intended it should be built, any more than that to Miramichi the promises were only held out as peace-makers, in order to carry the European and North American scheme, but the Northern Members as well as others have got their eyes open and we hope will not again allow themselves to be gulled. But supposing both roads were to be constructed why should one received £3,000 per mile and the other only £600. Is there anything fair in this, or is there any reason why a road connecting with Saint John should be treated so much better than one to St. Andrews? The friends of the St. Andrews and Quebec line have a perfect right to ask for and receive further aid. And we hope when this grant in aid of the steamers is asked for, it will be in connection with a railway from Saint John to intercept the line from St. Andrews and thence to Quebec.
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Toronto, The Globe, Page 2 – Thursday, April 6, 1854 – RAILROADS IN NOVA SCOTIA – The new railway measures prepared by the Government of Nova Scotia for the construction of railways, have been sanctioned by the Legislature. It is expected that the government will be able to raise on provincial bonds funds enough to construct a trunk line to about thirty miles northwest from Halifax, from which point it is proposed to build a line from Windsor and Annapolis, and another to Truro and Pictou – making a total of upwards of two hundred miles. Should the New Brunswickers succeed in building their contemplated road to Amherst, the Nova Scotians will meet them there and form a connecting road to Truro – the distance being about sixty miles.
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, June 23, 1854 – We believe, whatever may be said to the contrary, that the Saint John and Shediac Railway has now assumed something beyond a ‘snail’s space’ in its construction. Would that the whole mischief might at once explode, and leave room for the exercise of the legitimate energies of the Province in a more fitting direction!
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, June 30, 1854 – ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT – Hamilton Spectator – We deeply regret to have to record the awful and sudden death on the 1st instant, of Mr. Worthington, conductor of the Express train west. The journals of the wheels having become heated, Mr. Worthington endeavoured to examine them while the train was in motion. This could only be done by standing on the platform and grasping the guard, when the body could be projected beyond the car, and lowered nearly to a level with the top of the wheel. Mr. Worthington had evidently given no thought to the cattle passes which ran out close to the track, and while looking at his work and the train going at a rapid rate, his head struck one of the posts of the pass and his neck was instantly dislocated. Death, of course, ensued immediately. The deceased was a young man of much promise, esteemed by all who knew him. He was a son of Mr. Worthington, well known throughout the Province as Inspector of Customs, and what adds sadly to the melancholy occurrence, is the fact that the father, mother and sister of the deceased were on the train, to be present at his wedding in the west. Who can imagine the feelings of relatives under such a bereavement, or of the young creature who much have been so anxiously awaiting the arrival of the man whom she had chosen as a partner for life?
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, September 8, 1854 – NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN – Woodstock Journal – The operations, the object of which is to render the St. John navigable for boats of a smaller class from Fredericton upwards, had been for some time past in active and successful progress under the superintendence of James A. Maclauchlan, Esquire. We understand from experience boatmen that many obstacles of a serious nature have been removed from the river, and that many of the most shallow portions of it – hitherto almost impassable at low water – now present no obstructions to small craft. Much credit is we believe due to Mr. Maclauchlan for the ingenuity he has displayed in directing the current in some parts of the river, so as to deepen that portion through which boats have to pass; as also for the energetic and through manner in which all the works under his direction have been conducted. We shall recur to this important subject again.
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, September 8, 1854 – BRIDGE ACROSS THE ST. JOHN, AT GRAND FALLS – Woodstock Journal – The building of the above was let at Grand Falls on Monday last, by the Honourable George Hayward, the Government Commissioner. The contract was taken by Alexander Light, Esquire, the chief Engineer of the St. Andrews and Quebec Railway, for the sum of £4,875. The high standing of the contractor has acquired as an Engineer, together with his well known abilities, will insure to the public a structure of the first class, at this hitherto unsurpassable barrier.
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, September 8, 1854 – THE NEW GOVERNOR – Quebec Paper – Colonel Hayne, ADC, to his Excellency Sir Edmund Head, has arrived in town, from New Brunswick, and is at present sojourning at Spencer Wood. We understand that Lord Elgin will proceed to England immediately on the meeting of Parliament.
Further, we hear from New Brunswick that Sir Edmund Head will assume the reins of power with special authority from Downing street to forward an immediate union of all the Provinces. This is a move in the right direction, unhappily a little late, but entrusted to able and honest hands, and a measure which it is to be hoped will not be behind the requirements of the age: at least it is the duty of every good subject to support it.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 70 – Saturday, September 9, 1854 – Saint John Morning News – We understand that there has been another “flare up” at the Bend. It seems that our American friends cannot get along with English ways and manners, and we do not wonder at it, if all be true that we hear about overbearance and pomposity. In the meantime operations have been suspended. We shall next hear of the “great contractors” giving up the “ghost” in New Brunswick altogether.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 70 – Saturday, September 9, 1854 – Miramichi Gleaner – OUR RAILROAD – The American Contractors on the Railroad between the Bend and Shediac, have stopped the work, and disposed of their horses, &c. The high price of wages, and the difficulty of procuring men, we understand are the principal reasons they assign for abandoning the undertaking.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 70 – Saturday, September 9, 1854 – We notice by the report of the Grand Trunk Railway, that the work there is going on in good earnest. Mr. Jackson has made of New Brunswick all that he wished (which was a mere tool) which he handled as best suited his own purpose, for after the completion of the Railway from the Bend to Shediac, he will leave us to plod along as best we can. It is to be regretted that we have been humbugged so long, but we hope that those gentlemen (who were so willing to swallow all his propositions) do now begin to get their eyes opened and see where Mr. Jackson’s interest was, and how they were deceived.
It is time we think that the people of New Brunswick do make up their minds to look into these things, and ascertain who is in the fault, and in future take the management of their own affairs in their own hands, which is their undoubted privilege, and not be duped by such designing persons so frequently as has been the case.
The following extract may be read with a degree of encouragement by the people of New Brunswick.
QUEBEC AND TROIS PISTOLES – I have now to refer to the Trois Pistoles Section which has been finally located from its point of departure from the Quebec and Richmond Railway to Riviere du Loup, 113 miles. Plans of this portion have been duly deposited in the proper offices, as required by the acts and usual notices in reference thereto, published.
The right-of-way has been secured for eighty miles.
The construction of the first 40 miles from the point of departure on the Quebec and Richmond Railway to St. Thomas, was commenced early in the Spring, and by this time, fully one-third of the grading of its length is complete.
The masonry for the large bridges is progressing, and the iron-work for these bridges is finished in England, and we are advised will be sent off as soon as its shipment can be effected.
The whole of ties are provided and in course of delivery, also the whole of the fencing which is now erected.
The rails, about 1,000 tons have been provided, although only 100 tons have yet reached us. The remainder will be forwarded as speedily as ships can be found for their transportation.
One thousand one hundred and forty-two men and 34 horses are now employed upon this section; and with the exception of two large bridges, the whole of the grading will be completed this season.
It will be seen by the above that a Railway is now actually being built by Canada to within about 50 miles of the Boundary of New Brunswick, and 100 of the Grand Falls, this is encouraging, and if we are so fortunate as to get rid of Jackson, we may look forward to a time and that not far distant when the Capital of New Brunswick and the City of Quebec will be within the pleasant journey of a day (in a rail-car, through a both romantic and fertile country) of each other.
The travel between Canada and New Brunswick, and the immense increase would follow on the opening of a Rail Road from Saint John or Fredericton, to connect the Trois Pistoles section and also the immense quantity of merchandise, Lumber and Produce, that must necessarily pass upon such a road, induces the belief that the next Session of the Legislature will not be allowed to pass away without some action having been taken in this importance matter. Let some of our Legislators bring forward a measure, or induce the Government to do so, that a Rail Road be commenced at Fredericton, with the object that the Trois Pistoles section shall be its terminus, and nothing short of that – and if only 10, 15 or 20 miles can be built per year, let that be done. And with the present prospect of a free access to the American market for cord-wood, tan-bark, lumber of all descriptions and farm produce, and with such an excellent means of conveyance by water, as there would be from Fredericton to the United States. Any person can see at a glance that such an enterprise could not help but remunerate handsomely. Besides the opening up of a tract of country, the resources of which are now to a great extent unavailable.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 94 – Saturday, September 30, 1854 – We have already alluded to the Railroad systems of Canada, and the great progress of their people in everything relating to their general prosperity. We endeavoured to show that we in this Province, ought to be in no way their inferiors; that our natural resources are equal, and in more respects superior to their. Our limits will not permit us to give a full description of their Railways, showing the lines they have completed, and those now in course of construction. We mentioned in a former article the extension of the network of Railway. And the Trois Pistoles, on the St. Lawrence, an hundred and thirteen miles below Quebec is almost accomplished, and that there will soon be actually within that short distance from our boundary line. A Railway in actual operation, ought it to stop there? Is it not the idea of connecting that line with the sea port of Saint John and St. Andrews, or both by a Railroad through the heart of our Country, a noble one? What untold wealth would pour through our country. What thousands of acres of land now uncultivated would then be the homes of a prosperous population! What thousands of tons of lumber of all sorts and sizes, would then find a market.
It is now either rotting or being exposed to destruction by fire continually. It would then be a source of Mercantile wealth to us, enriching instead of impoverishing our Country, our hard working lumbermen and farmers, and surely they are hard working men; we should like to scrape acquaintance with any body of men who work harder, if there is such a body anywhere – and hard working men we say, would not have to work any harder, but they would work with a better heart and to a better advantage. They would not slave their lives out, they would then have a better rest, their labour would be far more productive, the connection with Canada, the flow of population and produce through our Country to or from the sea, would give new heart to our people. We pause at the thought of the general results which would spring out of such a connection, the subject is full of interest. It deserved the earnest attention of the Press, the Legislature and the People. It can be accomplished. If we could convince the Canadians that they would open an immense trade in this way. If they could only learn that resources of the Country through which the Railway would pass, they would eagerly grasp the prize. We trust the Canadian Press will take this subject up. We can only refer them to our census for a current idea of our capabilities; and we do it with pride. We regret that our limits prevent our quoting from it at length local or party squabbling, envying and strifes, falsehood and calumny, will disappear with the man who fans them up, but these great improvements will last. Once on the road and there is no looking back. We pity the man or men who can, in view of other great results, set down and fan up strife, for such people shall have no quarter from us. We shall scathe them as long as they follow their abominable trade.
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 94 – Saturday, September 30, 1854 – WAGES IN CANADA
Trade s. d.
Bricklayers 11 3
Masons 10 0
Stone-Cutters 10 0
Joiners 8 9
Carpenters 8 9
Tinsmiths 6 3
Painters 7 6
Hatters 7 6
Printers (Compositors) 7 6
Printers (Power-Pressmen) 8 4
Tailors (Male) 6 3
Tailors (Female) 2 6
Shoemakers 7 6
Coopers 6 3
Farm Labourers (with board) 3 9
Day-Labours 5 0
Boys and Girls (12 to 14) 1 10
Dress-Makers (with board) 2 0
Railway-Labourers 6 0
Needle-Women (with board) 2 0
Servant-Maids (per month) 30 0
Servant-Men (per month) 70 0
Servant-Boys (per month) 35 0
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Woodstock, Carleton Sentinel, Page 97 – Saturday, September 30, 1854 – ITEMS OF NEWS – The steamer “Boston” employed as a tow-boat on the St. John River, was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday last.
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Fredericton, NB, The Reporter, Page 2 – Friday, November 24, 1854 – ST JOHN RIVER – The Boatmen along the course of the River from here to Woodstock, speak in high terms of the improvements made in the navigation during the last summer. There is not they say, a single point of difficulty on the route, which has not been greatly improved under the supervision of Commissioner, Lieutenant-Colonel Maclauchlan.
A new channel has also been opened at the approach to Woodstock, which is recognized as a great improvement. The work will, we believe, be prosecuted next season on the line to the Grand Falls. It gives us much pleasure, in the absence of all other internal improvement – at least in the right direction – to notice these particulars.
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- A. Clowes
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