With the beginning of the month December, the port of Mortreal most entirely closed. Ove oF vessels still linger, in the hopes snatching a cargo and making a ash down the river before the ice closes in, So far, the weather has not been sufficiently cold to cause freeze-up, but those closely touch with navigation think that a late auturan may mean a sudden cold snap and a hard winter. Ju any ease, the winter always is a difficult time for many of the men employed around the harbour, and not a few of them must moky the money earned in the open season tide them over until the spring, counting on chanco to add a little to their store, Mention of the winter freeze-up calls to mind the frequent surge: tions that have been made regard. ing making Montreal and Quebec winter ports. No one has urged this more consistently than Dr. Howard 1. Barnes, Professer of Physics at McGill University, and recognized as one the few experts on ice conditions. He has been called upon many times to. visit the seenes of floods due to the damming of rivers by ice-blocks, and. frequently his skill and engineering technique have been the meos of preventing more serious events. His opinion is that, with an adrouate sum of money to provide the machinery, the St. Lawrence River could be kept open. Just what his theory one can not presume to explain, Dut there is no doubt that his sue-ses and his ons the St, Lawrence and the Gulf considerable weight to his So far, he has not been given instructions by the Governmest to carry out his plans, Big Railway Project One of the newest of important Ganadian projects is the proposed terminus of the Canadian National Railways in Montreal. For years the city has longed for a station that could be compared favourably with the fine GPR. Windsor Station; now. it appears that this ream will come true. The spite of the new development will be the tunnel terminal built by the Cana-
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