Verbatim Report of the Proceedings at the Special General Meeting

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Excerpt from Verbatim Report of the Proceedings at the Special General Meeting: Held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, London, on Friday, December 28th, 1866, In Pursuance of the Following AdvertisementAbout union. I have failed - but it has been from no fault of my own. This is the position of affairs - The Great Western Company seem to have made up their minds not to form an alliance with the G and Trunk. If that be so, clearly we ought not to enable them to obstruct ourbcing an all rail line with out them. (hear, hear.) One of the most unfortunate things of the past was that the Grand Trunk Railway did not end at Toronto, and the Great Western ran on to the United States boundary. However, that is no fault of ours, we found those lines in existence, and that being the error that was made we must endeavour to correct it in the best way we can for your interest, and, failing an alliance between the Great 'vestern and ourselves, plainly the best course we could pur sue was to take possession of the Butfalo and Lake Huron. The only objection which arose in my mind with respect to that arrangement, which shook my opinion and made me pause witn regard to it, was the bare possibility of the United States at some time or other putting an end to the Bonding Act, which is an Act enabling the produce of Canada or the United States to pass through either of those countries, without payment of Customs duties. Or anything to obstruct the transit of goods intended for consumption in either country. I cannot believe that Act will be put an end.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.