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THE romance of the mythical ‘North-West Passage’ which inspired the hopes and fascinated the imaginations of the pioneer navigators of the sixteenth century and their successors for several generations thereafter, has had a curious and interesting sequel of recent years, culminating, after some hesitations and two changes of programme, in the approaching completion of a new commercial port and harbour on the western coast of Hudson Bay, forming the terminal of a branch railway line from the Winnipeg-Prince Albert section of the Canadian National Railways, and the contemplated inauguration of a regular service of steamers through Hudson Strait to the North Atlantic Ocean. No longer is the extravagant and visionary idea entertained of a new sea route from Europe to India; in its place has arisen a much more rational and feasible project for the effective development of the spacious and, at present, sparsely occupied re gions lying in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the great North-West Territories of the Dominion, and the systematic exploitation of their enormous wealth of natural resources, by providing them with a direct outlet to the ocean highways of the world.
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"Report on the Selection of a Terminal Port for the Hudson Bay Railway", October 1927.
"Report of the Hudson Strait Expedition, 1927–8." Ottawa, 1929.
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CUNNINGHAM, B. Development of the Hudson Bay Region and the North-West Territories of Canada. Nature 128, 53–56 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128053a0
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