MILES PLACE PASSENGER FREIGHT
TARIFF MODE OF TRAVEL
TIMES
TARIFF
per cwt.
0 Edmonton 100 Athabasca Landing
$8.00 $1.00 Mail stage,
run by J.M. Kennedy Twice
a week all year round
0 Athabasca Landing
Northern Transportation
Co.’s SS.
75 Mouth of Lesser Slave
Midnight Sun (sternwheel river
River $6.00
$ .80 steamer, 120 ft. long x 24 ft. beam;
accomodates
35 in staterooms; passengers
supply
their own blankets;
meals
served 50 cents each; freight-carrying
capacity
50 tons). From
Athabasca
Landing to Mouth of
Lesser
Slave River.
91 Norris’s (head of rapids)
8.00 1.40 Portage 16 miles in N.T.
Co’s passenger
and
freight waggons from From
May 15 to
Mouth
of Lesser Slave River to Oct.
15.[2]
Norris’s
(head of rapids).
194 Shaw’s Point on Lesser
Slave Lake
16.00 2.50 N.T.
Co.’s SS. Northern Light (sidewheel
river
and lake steamer, 100
ft.
long x 26 ft. beam; accommodates
35
in staterooms; passengers
supply
their own blankets; meals
served
50 cents each; freight capacity
30
tons). From Norris’s to
Shaw’s
Point.
201 Lesser Slave Lake Settlement Portage 7 miles to the settlement.
0 Lesser Slave Lake Settlement
From Lesser Slave Lake
Settlement to
$10.00
2.00 Peace River Crossing, teams and
to
drivers may be hired; fare depends
25.00
on number of passengers; takes 3
All the year round
according
days. Stopping places at intermediate
to number
points, with stabling and hay;
bunkhouses
for travellers who supply
90 Peace River Crossing (Peace
their own bedding and provisions.
River Landing)
[Footnote 2: For further particulars regarding dates and rates, application should be made to the Hudson’s Bay Company, Winnipeg; J.K. Cornwall, M.P.P., of the Northern Transportation Co. at Edmonton; or to A.G. Harrison, Secretary Board of Trade, Edmonton, Alberta.]