. The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America. WHITEFISH LAKE 3° The Picturesque Rideau HARBOR AT FETTERCAIRN ISLAND that they are well-nigh cyclopean in character. This section of the route beingcut through solid rock, necessitated considerable blasting, and it is recordedthat 500 men were killed during the process of construction. The work wasdone by British soldiers, under the direction of the Royal Engineers, and up to1854, when the canal was transferred to the Dominion Government, the lockmen,were ex-soldiers of the Engineers or Artillery, wearing
. The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America. WHITEFISH LAKE 3° The Picturesque Rideau HARBOR AT FETTERCAIRN ISLAND that they are well-nigh cyclopean in character. This section of the route beingcut through solid rock, necessitated considerable blasting, and it is recordedthat 500 men were killed during the process of construction. The work wasdone by British soldiers, under the direction of the Royal Engineers, and up to1854, when the canal was transferred to the Dominion Government, the lockmen,were ex-soldiers of the Engineers or Artillery, wearing military uniform. Abovethe locks still stand the square, heavily-built lock houses they occupied, withnarrow slits in the walls, through which they could direct their rifles in the eventof Indians or unfriendly strangers threatening to impede navigation. Since theday when Colonel By made the first trip on the Pumper, no such event hasoccurred. Soldiers and Indians have alike disappeared, and the only strangerswho linger around the locks are admiring tourists, who do not desire to destroyaught save FIN, FUR AND FEATHERS. So
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