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Questions.
13. State any additional par- ticulars necessary to show the existing and contem- plated capacity of the port
PORTS AND HARBOURS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE:
(a) in general, (b) for the accommoda- tion of vessels of large size and deep draught. (Note-In answer to this
question brief detaile should be given of im- portant schemes of im- provement now in pro- gress or in contempla tion, and of their estimated cost, in so far as they have not been given in reply to Question 11)
Halifax.
Halifax Harbour is a natural one and very extensive. It is open all the year round, and, with St. John, is the teriniaus for the Canadian Trans- Atlantic steamers after the St. Law. rence route is closed in the winter. It may be mentioned that the Dominion Government, in addition to the scheme for coesn terminals already described in anawar to question 11, has in hand plans for the construc- tion of a new large graving dock. The following are likely to be the
dimensions of this dock:-
Ft. Ine.
Length - Breadth - Depth
1,150 0
120
0
over
nil!
(H.W.O.N.T.).
Montreal.
The port business is increasing rapidly. and extensions of harbour facilities are being carried out in accordance with a plan of constructing more piers of concrete, dredging in the harbour, lessening currents, enlarg- ing the grain elevator accommodu- tion, and increasing berthing accommodation.
Quebec.
CANADA (EASTERN) AND NEWFOUNDLAND,
The barbour includes a wet dock and a tidal harbour, in addition to the breakwater and breakwater extension.
The Harbour Commissioners are now carrying out extensive im provements in wharf-building and dredging authorised by Act of Parliamout,
St. John (New Brunswick).
In 1912 a contract was entered into with Messrs. Norton. Griffiths & Co., Ltd.. by the Dominion Government for the construction of the Courtenay Bay Harbour Works on the east side of the harbour. The works comprise :→→→ (4) The construction of a break-
water 4,570 ft. in length.
(b) The dredging of a channel about 6.800 ft. in length, 500 ft. in width. and with a depth of 32 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) from the main channel leading into St. John Harbour to this breakwater.
(0) The dredging of a brain to
B
depth of 32 ft. (L.W.Ö.S.T) in Cour. tenay Bay.
(d) The construction of 4,890 ft.
of quay walls.
(e) The construction of a first-
class dry dock.
The works are to be completed by March 1917, and the contract cost
is over 1,500,0002.
Other smaller works of improve- ment are being carried out on the western side of the harbour.
St. John's (Newfoundland).
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St. John's Harbour bus an area of 270 acres of which about 69 acres have a depth of 60 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.). If it should be contemplated to provide berthing accommodation for ships of 1,000 ft. in length and of 100 ft. beam, requiring a depth of 40 ft. (L.W.O.S.T.) this could best be done by constructing dock walls either on the north side of the foreshore from the Farue Withy Wharf to the Waldegrave Battery, or on the south side from the end of the existing wharves to Cahill's Point.
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