No. 50. “Pacific Pastimes.”
Reading edition
The Reform Government took up the Pacific Railway scheme, but initiated a new policy with regard to it. Sir John Macdonald had pledged the country to complete the entire work within ten years. Mr. Mackenzie characterized this as a physical impossibility, and proposed, as the cartoon has it, “to tak the distance in sensible like jumps, ye ken!”
May 16th, 1874.
No. 50.
PACIFIC PASTIMES; OR, THE “HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.”