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| | Gustavus Myers, A History of Canadian Wealth, ch 10 |
 | | The railways of Canada, owned, controlled and ruled privately by individual groups or corporations of capitalists, cover more than 26,000 miles of lines; and expressed in the substance of modern money terms, their capital is about $1,600.000,000. |
 | | The charter of this railway, it seems, was repealed at the instance of Sir Francis Hincks, but a railroad of much the same name, the Kingston and Montreal, came into being with a capital of £600,000 currency in shares, of which Galt, Holton and D.L. Macpherson gathered into their ownership almost the whole. |
 | | Lord Sydenham was, no doubt, impressed by their primitively uncouth methods as compared with those in England, where the most flagrant jobs are put through with polished ease and leisurely equanimity, thus covering them with a nice gentlemanly elegance. |
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