. Canada : a descriptive text book . the oper-atives are chiefly French. The city is situated at the foot of MountRoyal, which gives to the citizens a splendid park with an outlook for CANADA. 71 miles over the surrounding country. Montreal is substantially built,most of the buildings being of stone. Notre Dame, the French cathe-dral, seats ten thousand people, and the cathedral of St. James is anexact copy, on a reduced scale, of St. Peters at Rome. Along the riverfront are miles of massive docks, piers and wharves, for Montreal is atthe head of ocean navigation and during the season one of t
. Canada : a descriptive text book . the oper-atives are chiefly French. The city is situated at the foot of MountRoyal, which gives to the citizens a splendid park with an outlook for CANADA. 71 miles over the surrounding country. Montreal is substantially built,most of the buildings being of stone. Notre Dame, the French cathe-dral, seats ten thousand people, and the cathedral of St. James is anexact copy, on a reduced scale, of St. Peters at Rome. Along the riverfront are miles of massive docks, piers and wharves, for Montreal is atthe head of ocean navigation and during the season one of the busiestports in America. The city has railway connection with every part ofthe continent and is the headquarters of the Grand Trunk and theCanadian Pacific railways. By means of the St. Lawrence, the Ottawaand the Richelieu, with their canals, travel and transport by water arepossible in many directions. Other cities are Three Rivers, Hull, with pulp, paper and wooden-ware factories, Sherbrooke, Sorel, St. Hyacinthe and Ontario Parliament Buildings. 72 CANADA. CHAPTER X.
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