Eastern Journey_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Western Journey____________
George Philip & Son London & Liverpool.
ENGLAND AND CANADA.
A SUMMER TOUR
BETWEEN
OLD AND NEW WESTMINSTER
WITH HISTORICAL NOTES.
BY
SANDFORD FLEMING, C.E., C.M.G., Etc.
MONTREAL:
DAWSON BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
1884.
Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1884, by
Sandford Fleming,
in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY, MONTREAL.
TO
The Right Honourable the Marquis of Lorne, K.T.
G.C.M.G., P.C., &C., &C.,
ONE OF CANADA’S TRUEST AND WARMEST FRIENDS,
WITH SINCERE RESPECT
THIS RECORD OF A JOURNEY FROM THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL TO THE
PACIFIC OCEAN, THROUGH CANADIAN TERRITORY,
IS DEDICATED.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| INTRODUCTORY. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| HALIFAX TO LIVERPOOL. | |
| Halifax—Cunard Line—Intercolonial Railway—Truro—Travelling by Pullman—New Brunswick—Miramichi—Great Fires in New Brunswick—Salmon Fishing—Micmac Indians—Rimouski—S.S. Parisian—The first Ocean Steamer the Royal William—Incidents of Ocean Voyage—Arrival. | Page 11 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| ENGLAND. | |
| Willie Gordon—Custom House Annoyances—Cable Telegram—Post Office Annoyances—London—Spurgeon’s Tabernacle—An Ancestral Home—English and United States Hotels—English Reserve—A Railway Accident—The Land’s End—A Deaf Guest. | Page 33 |
| CHAPTER IV.vi | |
| ENGLAND (Continued). | |
| Marquis of Salisbury—Classical Studies—Henley Regatta—Red Lion—London Dinner to Lord Dufferin—His Speech—Greenwich—Fisheries Exhibition—Bray—The Vicar—The Thames—Minehead—The Polynesian. | Page 58 |
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