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we were exclusively occupied in collecting
information for a detailed study of the allimportant
 question, and in gathering the
views of Canadian citizens and administrators,
 rather than in seeing the country
itself,

Among those we saw and interviewed
during our travels were :—
Members of the Government, members of
both Houses of Parliament and both parties,
deputy ministers, government officials,
judges, lawyers, soldiers, representative
manufacturers, representative men connected
 with practically every large industrial
 concern in Eastern and Central
Canada, officers of many of the Chambers
of Commerce, Manufacturers’ Associations,
 &amp;c., &amp;c., heads of several of the
largest wholesale importing and exporting
firms, railway men, shipowners, timber-merchants,
 engineers, university professors, real
estate agents, farmers, grain exporters,
millers, bankers, journalists, stockbrokers,
divines, doctors, and artisans.
To all these gentlemen we are very greatly
indebted for their unflagging kindness and
consideration, and sometimes, we fear, for-.

