The New North eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 340 pages of information about The New North.

The New North eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 340 pages of information about The New North.

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.]

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