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THE TOURIST'S MARITIME PROVINCES

ward Island) and Charlottetown. The trip of about a thousand miles is made in five days.

Reference has already been made to the summer service of the Quebec Steamship Co., Quebec–Halifax.

The Black Diamond Line has regular sailings between Montreal, Summerside, Charlottetown, Sydney, N. S., and St. John's, Newfoundland.


Trans-Atlantic Steamers.

Many passenger lines from British and Continental ports touch at Halifax, N. S., and at St. John, N. B. There is frequent connection, also, between the West Indies and Halifax.


Rail Connection from the United States and Montreal, Canada.

The most direct all-rail route from New England to the Maritime Provinces is via the Boston and Maine, Maine Central and Canadian Pacific Railroads from Boston to St. John, N. B. Thence by way of Moncton and Truro to Halifax or Sydney (Intercolonial Railway); and by way of Moncton and Painsec Junction to Point du Chene where the steamer is taken across Northumberland Strait to Summerside, Prince Edward Island. The "Provincial Express" leaves Boston daily at 7:30 p. m., arrives in St. John about 10:00 the following morning and in Halifax at 10:00 p. m., Atlantic Standard time (one hour earlier than Eastern or Boston time). Distance, Boston–St. John, 455