Excerpt from The Queen's Highway: From Ocean to Ocean From Her Majesty's dominions lying under the soft effulgence of the Southern Cross to those in the North Pacific is a long cry; but, with the Opening of the new line (the Canadian Pacific) across Canada, connecting the atlantic with the Pacific, the Antipodes and the 'province of the Midnight Sun - British Columbia - Will, in the immediate future, be brought nearer together by many days. At present there is no direct communication between Australia and Canada, and we have to thank American enterprise for carrying us over the miles which separate British possessions in the North and South Pacific. This consists' of a monthly mail service between Sydney, and San Francisco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.