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 Railway follows the St. John River along the Maine boundary. This road, which pierces a sportsman's country, has its northern terminus at Rivière du Loup, Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River (Intercolonial Trunk line).

From St. Leonards (26 miles southeast of Edmundston) the International Railway goes through a primitive region to Campbellton (112 miles), thus linking the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial roads. Campbellton is on the main Intercolonial line near the Quebec frontier. Small steamers leave this port once a week, on arrival of the Ocean Limited from Montreal, for ports on the Gaspé Peninsula. Matapedia, 12 miles west, is the starting-point of the Quebec Oriental Railway which, with its supplementary line, the Atlantic Quebec and Western, gives a long-needed rail service to towns on the famously beautiful Gaspé shore.

The dividing line where Eastern Standard changes to Atlantic Standard time passes through Campbellton.

The southern peninsula of Nova Scotia is served by the Dominion Atlantic Railway (Canadian Pacific) and by the Halifax and Southwestern. A branch of the latter crosses the province from the Atlantic on the east coast to the Bay of Fundy on the west. The main lines of the Halifax and Southwestern and the Dominion Atlantic meet at Yarmouth. At Digby (66 m. north of