Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered?Borden’s proposal had the rail line starting in his riding in Canning. After running northward to Pereau, Delhaven, Blomidon and Scots Bay, the line would turn eastward and run to Cape Split. Various branches running off the main line also were proposed.
Regardless if there was a power project at Cape Split, a rail line running north from Canning had little chance of being commercially successful. Apparently, that’s what the federal government thought. Borden forwarded his Bill to the minister of finance but it was never introduced. Look at what happened to the apple industry, for example, when a new rail line was constructed along Kings County’s orchard belt.
Getting back to Borden and the line to Cape Split, as the minister of Militia and Defence, Borden was involved in the wholesale move of Aldershot Camp from the Aylesford Plains to its present location. Land speculators somehow had advanced knowledge of the move, as they did of the proposed rail line to Cape Split, and purchased land for mere pennies in and around where the new camp would be located.
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