CHAPTER IX
ST. JOHN AND THE SOUTH COAST
The Islands of Campobello and Grand Manan.
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St. John.
St. John is accessible from the United States by more routes than any city of the Maritime Provinces. Moreover, all New Brunswick roads lead to it directly or by connection, and it is separated from Nova Scotia by a water journey of but 47 miles. Its rapid advance as a shipping port to the rank of second largest in Canada is due to its being the Atlantic terminus of two transcontinental railways, the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk System, and the Canadian terminus of more than a dozen cargo and passenger steamer lines sailing to and from every quarter of the world. As a winter port for trans-Atlantic companies, St. John is in the ascendency over Halifax. Though the latter city is two hundred and fifty miles nearer Liverpool, it is a third again further from Montreal than is the commercial centre of New Brunswick, and a much longer distance from New York and Chicago. It is authoritatively stated that the
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