Papers on the case for compensation put forward by the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Includes: copies of acts relating to the canal; annotated extracts from the official record of debates in the Canadian House of Commons; plan of the canal route; interim report and statistical examination on the canal; minutes and evidence of the special committee on railways, canals and telegraph lines.