Excerpt from Report on British and Continental Ports, 1908: With a View to the Development of the Port of Montreal and Canadian Transportation Before placing on record the information gathered during a three months' study of British and Continental ports. Appreciation must be expressed to Hon. L. P. Brodeur, m.p., Minister of Marine and Fisheries, for his approval and kind introduction to his Lordship the High Commissioner for Canada. To Right Hon. Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada in London, for his kind advice and extreme courtesv in securing introductions to high officials in each port. 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.