Wheat from Hudson Bay A steamer carrying 270,000 bushels of
wheat sailed from Churchill in Hudson Bay on September 17th, and thus inaugurated a new direct route from Western Canada to England. The Dominion is to be congratu- lated on the completion of this bold scheme, which has involved the building of a railway in Northern Manitoba and the construction of a large modern port, at a total cost of £10,000,000. The prairie farmers believe that, with a saving of 700 miles in the railway route as compared with the route eastward to Montreal, grain can be shipped more cheaply to England by way of Churchill, for the four months during which Hudson Strait is free from ice. Underwriters are nervous about the dangers from ice in the channels leading to Hudson Bay, but the Dominion Government is doing what it can to lessen these perils. English ships have regularly visited the Bay since Charles l.'s time in quest of furs, but they were -and are small as compared with wheat carriers like the Farnworth,' the pioneer of the new route.
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