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The North-West Transportation, Navigation and Railway Company: Its objects

MacDonell, Allan: 1808-1888. Born at York, Upper Canada; called to bar of Upper Canada, 1832; promoter of mining in Lake Superior region; promoter of a railway to Pacific (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Appendix on pages [29]-54 contains Peel 281, as well as the eighth report (1851) of the Standing Committee on Railways and Telegraph Lines. MacDonell showed, on paper at least, that a railway would derive a lucrative revenue by exporting buffalo tallow and tongues from the western plains. A railway from Lake Superior would re-route the trade carried by cart between Red River Settlement and St Paul. The Company was incorporated by the Legislature of Canada in 1858. Also published, [New Haven, Conn.: Research Publications, 196-?] (55p.).

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