The employment of the people and the capital of Great Britain in her own colonies, at the same time assisting emigration and penal arrangements by undertaking a great national work : ... explained in a letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to his friend the author of "The clockmaker," containing thoughts on the subject of a British colonial railway communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific, from ... Halifax, in Nova Scotia ... to the mouth of Frazer's River.