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Taming the Kootenay

 

 

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'My concession contained, of course, a clause giving me permission to carry out this turning of the Kootenay river. This sanction should never have been given by the [provincial] Government. In the first place, it had not the right to grant it, for by the Act of Confederation the Federal Government had reserved to itself the power of dealing with all future canal works in the province. The second reason was the fact when, in 1883, they granted my concession, the [Canadian Pacific] railway company was already building into the Columbia valley in accordance with surveys which did not consider the possibility of a vast volume of water being added to that of the Columbia.'

[Read by John Hopcraft]

 

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