At Mulgrave (184 miles from Halifax en route to Sydney) small steamers connect with the Intercolonial for Arichat, Canso and Guysboro on the Atlantic side, and for other towns on the Gulf of St. Lawrence side of northern Nova Scotia. Also for St. Peter's, Grand Narrows and intermediate points on the Bras d'Or Lakes. The Weymouth connects at Hawkesbury with the Boston boat and passes through the Lakes to Sydney.
Point Tupper, to which place trains are conveyed by ferry from Mulgrave, across the Strait of Canso, and Hawkesbury are on the Island of Cape Breton. Point Tupper is the southern terminus of the railway of the Inverness Coal Company which skirts the Island's western coast as far as Inverness (62 miles); and of the Cape Breton Railway, Point Tupper–St. Peter's (31 m.). St. Peter's is on the canal which gives access from the ocean to the Bras d'Or Lakes.
A steamer connects at Grand Narrows and Iona for Baddeck, on the Little Bras d'Or, 55 miles from Sydney. Sydney and North Sydney are the points of departure for a steamboat which calls at Baddeck (55 miles) and at Whycocomagh (80 miles) on the Lakes; also for other steamers which touch ports on the most northerly promontory of Cape Breton Island, including Bay St. Ann, In-
tine (reached from Sackville, N. B.) to Cape Traverse, P. E. I., about 10 miles. To this end the Prince Edward Island road gauge will be changed from narrow to standard.
