Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1888 - There is every probability that the first ship railway of the world will be built in Canada.

OTTAWA, Oct. 12 - T.C. Keefer, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has received a cable from London announcing that the contract for the construction of a ship railway from the Bay of Fundy to Baie Verte, Gulf of the St. Lawrence, was finally settled yesterday,, and that Ketchum, promoter of the scheme, sailed for Canada in the Eturia to-day. Keefer is one of the provisional directors named in the act of parliament incorporating the Chignecto Marine Railway company. The work will probably cost $5,000,000.

The Brandon Mail
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
October 18, 1888

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