Hudson Bay line extends to mile 56 with new passenger service
The Hudson Bay Construction Co. launched a passenger service on its construction train at five cents per mile. H and McCuaig bought the first ticket for 2.75 to Scott, a 55 mile trip. The ticket lists eighteen stations with distances and notes nontransferable travel and no contractor liability for delays or damage.
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Hudson Bay Construction Co
H. &. McCuaig
Hudson Bay Railway
Scott
Pas
McNaughton
Lewiston
Woody Lake
Jefferson
Malcolm
Parker
Limestone
Boyd
Hudson’s Bay Railway
The
Hudson’s Bay Construction Co., Ltd
Hudson Bay Railway to Build East Town Station and Roundhouse
Plans show a new Hudson Bay Railway terminal along the town’s eastern boundary with trackage and a roundhouse to be built immediately. Survey lines run from the CNR right of way to the north end of Block 36 while clearing proceeds between blocks 86 and 91 in Pas Annex for shops and yards. The exact station and freight shed locations are not fixed but likely between Pas Annex northeast corner and Block 36.
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Hudson Bay Railway
C.N.R
N.W
Pas Annex
Department of the Hudson Bay Railway
Laying Steel for Hudson Bay Road Aims Spring Start
Special despatch from Le Pas Herald reports L Easton in Toronto from Port Nelson stating two freighters have been supplying the Nelson end of the Hudson Bay road for weeks. 180,000 feet of large bridge timber are on hand and the government plans to rush loading so steel can move toward the southwest next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Important Changes at Herald Quarters in Town
Large addition at the east end of The Herald building on Fischer Avenue and Fourth Street. Printing department moved with new Mentges folding machine to handle 1,050 weekly copies. Entrance now on Fourth Street. Fisher Avenue entrance for real estate, insurance, or law business only. Public invited to visit Thursdays after noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald, de Tremaudan Co
McLelland & de Tremaudan
Fischer Avenue
Fourth Street
Mentges
Herald
Fisher Ave
Fisher Avenue
Herald Office
Vast Hudson Bay region holds potential farmland in clay plains
The article describes a 10 000 square mile area between Le Pas and Split Lake with heavy lacustrine clay soils topped by loam. It notes low, well drained plateaus rising up to 50 feet, and suggests lowering the Saskatchewan river level by dredging near Grand Rapids to reclaim alluvial land for agriculture.
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Nelson River
Burntwood
Wekusko Lakes
Saskatchewan River
Cumberland House
le Pas
Grand Rapids
Canada
Lake Winnipeg
Fort A la Corne
Prince Albert
Eskimos Kill Radford and Street Near Bathurst Inlet
Comptroller Fortes cue of the R N W M P reports the murder of American explorer H W Radford and Ottawa College footballer George Street by Eskimos at Bathurst Inlet 400 miles north of Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay.
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Ottawa
Fortescue
R.N.W.M.P
H. W. Radford
George Street
Bathurst Inlet
Chesterfield Inlet
Hudson Bay
Radford
Street
Ottawa College
German airship Li destroyed in Baltic hurricane off Heligoland
The airship Li performing reconnaissance for the torpedo boat fleet collapsed during a sudden hurricane off Heligoland and fell into the sea. Of 22 crew members seven were rescued by torpedo boats summoned by wireless from SS Gi just before the disaster.
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Berlin
Heligoland
Also Mentioned on This Page
H.E.R
PAS Man
H.S. McCuaig
Bay
McLaren
Moffat
Hudson Bay Road
Colin
McMillan Bros
Georgetown
George Cowan
Cormorant Lake
N. K Boyd
M.P
Portage la Prairis
Clearwater Lake
Port Nelson
City of Toronto
le Pas Herald
Fourth St
de Tremaudan & Co
McLeiland & de Tremaudan
NEW
Manitoba
Split Lake
Far Northland
Fischer
the Armstrong Trading CO. Limited
First Street
Edwards Ave
the Lake Lumber Co
Railway Avenue
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