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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
es is dwelt upon by the Review at some length. The advance of the Australian dependencies is wonderful. The province of Victoria, which, in 1851, had a population of only 77,345 persons, now numbers more than half a million. Our neighbor, Canada, is said to be making steady advances both in population and enterprise. She now numbers three millions of people, and her public works, built mostly by British capital, are of a costly and splendid character. The conviction is expressed by Sir Edmond Head, Governor General, that the whole of the trade of the Northwestern regions, not only of Canada, but of Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, the great grain-growing district of the continent, must ultimately look to Montreal as its port and the St. Lawrence as its highway to the ocean. Canada has combined with the grandest canals in the world, the Grand Trunk Railway, which has a length of 1,112 miles, and is designed to provide for th