 John by rail; and I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days.  Sandford Fleming: Empire Builder - Page 100by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee - 1915 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Howe, Nugent, R. (Halifax, N.S.) - 1851 - 34 pages
...make the journey hence te> duebec and Montreal, and home through Portland and St. John by Rail ; and I believe that many in this room will live to hear...journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days. With such objects in view, with the means before'us to open up 1000 miles^of this noble territory —... | |
 | Joseph Howe - 1858 - 576 pages
...make the journey hence to Quebec and Montreal, and home through Portland and St. John, by rail ; and I believe that many in this room will live to hear...journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days. With such objects in view, — with the means before us to open up one thousand miles of this noble... | |
 | George Edward Fenety - 1896 - 402 pages
...make the journey hence to Quebec and Montreal, and home through Portland and St. John by rail, and I believe that many in this room will live to hear...the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Eocky Mountains, and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days." A bucolic... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - 1902 - 568 pages
...Lieutenant Synge, RE, and a few others wrote of it in 1848-9; Joseph Howe declared at Halifax on July 15th, that " Many in this room will live to hear the whistle...steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains ; " Alan Macdonell of Toronto, in the same year, tried to or* Sir Saudford Fleming, in History of tlm... | |
 | Agnes Maule Machar - 1903 - 616 pages
...make the journey hence to Quebec and Montreal, and home through Portland and St. John by rail, and I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steamengine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains, and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1905 - 636 pages
...railways, and there he uttered a daring prophecy, which many years ago was to a large extent fulfilled, "I believe that many in this room will live to hear...from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days." But even Howe (born fighter though he was) was not always leading the strenuous life of political contest... | |
 | 1895 - 1174 pages
...that in five years' time we shall make the journey hence to Quebec, Montreal and St. John by rail, and I believe that many in this room will live to hear...the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rockies and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six days." Many others advocated... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1910 - 1024 pages
...journey hence to Quebec and Montreal and the home through Portland and St. John through rail; and 1 believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passage of the Rocky mountains, and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific in five or six... | |
 | 1911 - 1122 pages
...seriously conceived, could, in 1851, make a prediction that men within the sound of his voice would live to hear the whistle of the steam engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains ? In New Brunswick, Howe had to encounter exceptional difficulties. The interests of the greater number... | |
 | William Lawson Grant - 1915 - 198 pages
...make the journey hence to Quebec and Montreal and home through Portland and St John, by rail ; and I believe that many in this room will live to hear the whistle of the steam-engine in the passes of the Rocky Mountains and to make the journey from Halifax to the Pacific... | |
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