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"Montreal -- The Harbor: Montreal not only enjoys the distinction of being a great ocean port nearly a thousand miles inland, but in point of foreign commerce is the second port in North America. The city is 250 miles above salt water, but is 315 miles nearer to Liverpool than is New York. The broad St. Lawrence forms a highway upon which ocean-going steamers of 20,000 tons can safely ascend to Montreal. Montreal has many miles of fine wharves of concrete, vast warehouses, huge grain elevators with a total capacity of 15,000,000 bushels, and the largest floating dry dock in the world. The Port of Montreal is now the largest grain-exporting port in the world, and in 1927 handled 195,000,000 bushels."

Excerpt from "ACROSS CANADA BY C. P. R.", Section 2--The Province of Quebec; booklet, McGill University Illustrated Lectures, 1928.

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