Volume 10 - Section V - ElectricCanadian.com

OCEAN SHIPPING 619
in conjunction with the Tehuantepec Railway Company,
which connects with Atlantic liners at Puerto, Mexico. In
1913 Grace and Company established a line connecting South
American, Mexican, and United
Victoria and Vancouver. New
States Pacific ports with
lines between Canadian
Pacific ports and Europe are proposed in anticipation of the
opening of the Panama Canal.
OCEAN TERMINAL FACILITIES
Perhaps nowhere is the rapid industrial and commercial
development of Canada more strikingly apparent than in
the improvements being made in ocean port and harbour
facilities on both the Atlantic and the Pacific sea-boards.
Immense sums of foreign capital are flowing into numerous
undertakings of all kinds, which have not yet become
fully productive. The time is not far distant, however,
when a stage in industrial development will have been
reached in which the past investments of brain and brawn
and capital will bring forth manyfold what they are now
producing. When this time arrives the foreign commerce
of the country will receive a great impetus, and large harbour
facilities must be provided against it.
On the Pacific coast the near approach of the completion
of the Panama Canal has been the principal direct cause
of improved ocean terminal facilities. The three principal
Canadian ocean ports on the Pacific are Prince Rupert,
Vancouver and Victoria ;
the first situated on the northern,
the other two on the southern portion of the coast of British
Columbia. At Prince Rupert the splendid natural harbour
is being provided with docks, piers and other port facilities
by both the Dominion government and the Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway. The railway company is also constructing
a large shipbuilding plant, and a dry-dock having a lifting
capacity of 20,000 tons and large enough to accommodate
any vessel on the Pacific Ocean. The distance from Prince
miles less than
Rupert to Yokohama is 3800 miles, some 480
that from Vancouver to Yokohama.
Vancouver is 550 miles from Prince Rupert by coast