Guelph Advertiser 1 September 1853

Railway Magnates

On Saturday last the following gentlemen left Toronto for Sarnia taking the route of the Railway between those places:

Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P.; W. Jackson, Esq., M.P.; W.L. Betts, Esq., M.P.; Hon. F. Hincks; Hon,. J. Ross, Attorney General; Hon H. Killaly; Hon chancellor Blake; A.T. Galt, Esq., M.P.P.; Thomas Galt, Esq., Engineer Grand Trunk Railway Company; Mr. Roney, Secretary do; Walter Shanley, Esq., Engineering Toronto and Sarnia Section.

On Sunday morning they left Georgetown, and reached Guelph about 9 o'clock, where they breakfasted, an proceeded on to Berlin and westward.

A visit from these gentlemen will probably tend much to the advantage of this section of the Province, of which they have known nothing personally hitherto; but it scarcely comports with the character of Legislators or the dignity of the Sabbath, to thus pursue their purpose. A journey from Georgetown to Berlin, or futher, is more than "a Sabbath day's journey."

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