orth-West pours for transport on the Great Lakes.

These two cities sprang from the little human nucleus made up of a
Jesuit mission and a Hudson Bay Company depot of the old days. They
stand on Thunder Bay, a deep-water sack thrusting out from Lake
Superior under the slopes of flat-topped Thunder Cape. The situation
is ideal for handling the trade of the great lake highway that swings
the traffic through the heart of the Western continent.

Port Arthur and Fort William have seen their chances and made the most
of them. They have constructed great wharves along the bay to
accommodate a huge traffic. Over the wharves they have built up the
greatest grain elevators in the world, not a few of them but a series,
until the cities seemed to be inhabited solely by these giants. These
elevators and stores collect and distribute the vast streams of grain
that pour in from the prairies, at whose door the cities stand,
distributing it across the lakes to the cities of America, or along the
lakes to the Canadian East and the railways that tranship it to Europe.

On the quays are the towering lattices of patent derricks, forests of
them, that handle coal and ore and cargoes of infinite variety. And
the [Transcriber's note: word(s) possibly missing from source] derricks
and the elevators are the uncannily long and lean lake freighters,
ships with a tiny deck superstructure forward of a great rake of hold,
and a tiny engine-house astern under the stack. And by these grain
boats are the ore tramps and coal boats from Lake Erie, and cargo boats
with paper pulp for England made in the big mills that turn the forests
about Lake Superior into riches.

Not content with docking boats, the twin cities build them. They build
with equal ease a 10,000-ton freighter, or a great sky-scraping tourist
boat to ply between Canada and the American shores. And presently it
will be sending its 10,000-tonners direct to Liverpool; they only await
the deepening of the Welland Canal near Niagara before starting a
regular service on this 4,000-mile voyage.

They are modern cities, indeed, that snatch every chance for wealth and
progress, and use even the power that Nature gives in numerous falls to
work their dynamos, and through them their many mills and factories.
And the marvel of these cities is that they are inland cities--inland
ports thousands of miles from the nearest salt water.

These places gave the Prince the welcome of ardent twins.