Moncton—General Offices of the Intercolonial Railway through the Trees 
     
    
   
   
    
     The management and administration of the Intercolonial 
     
     Railway, as well as the clerical, constructive and auxiliary staffs, 
     
     all centre in Moncton. As a consequence, about 2500 of the town’s 
     
     population are in Intercolonial employ. 
     
    

    
     The General Offices of the Railway occupy a prominent 
     
     position adjoining the station grounds. The building has recently 
     
     been extended to give much needed room, and with its pleasant 
     
     surroundings gives comfortable quarters for the Working staff of 
     
     the system. 
     
    

    
     The city bears on its face every evidence of prosperity, and 
     
     it has many excellent stores and pleasant residential streets. 
     
    

    
     The Moncton and Buctouche Railway has its headquarters 
     
     here; and Moncton is also the eastern terminus of one of Canada’s 
     
     trans-continental railway systems, the Grand Trunk Pacific. 
     
    

    
     The phenomenon of the Bay of Fundy “ Tidal Bore ” is best 
     
     seen on the Petitcodiac River at Moncton. The rise and fall of 
     
     the tide here shows a difference of thirty feet between extreme high 
     
     and extreme low. At favorable times the height of the incoming 
     
    
   
   
    
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