Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . ed on the south-western curve of Bur-lington Bay, at the western extremity of Lake Ontario,and has superior facilities for becoming a large manufac-turing city, being accessible from all points by railwayand lake navigation, and being situated in the centre ofthe finest grain-producing region of Ontario. In 1901 ithad an assessed value of $27,100,000. London, the westernmost city in Ontario,The City of is splendidly situated on the RiverLondon. Thames, in the County of Middlesex. Sixty years ago its present site was awilderness; now it
Canada : its history, productions and natural resources . ed on the south-western curve of Bur-lington Bay, at the western extremity of Lake Ontario,and has superior facilities for becoming a large manufac-turing city, being accessible from all points by railwayand lake navigation, and being situated in the centre ofthe finest grain-producing region of Ontario. In 1901 ithad an assessed value of $27,100,000. London, the westernmost city in Ontario,The City of is splendidly situated on the RiverLondon. Thames, in the County of Middlesex. Sixty years ago its present site was awilderness; now it is a fine city, regularly laid out,having wide streets well built upon with handsomebuildings, with an assessed value of $17,300,000. It hasgood railway communication with all parts of aim of its founders was to reproduce in Canada thenames associated with the London. Accordingly, it hasits Pall Mall, Oxford, Waterloo, and Clarence Streets;Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges. London (Can-ada) is surrounded by a rich agricultural country, fur-. CANADIAN HANDBOOK. 173 nishing it with a large trade in wheat and other its borders are numerous manufactories, mills,machine shops, foundries, breweries, banks, asylums, col-leges, etc. Ottawa, the seat of the Federal Gov-ernment, is the entrepot of the great The Capital oflumber trade of the Ottawa River and tributaries, and on the pilinggrounds around the Chaudiere Falls there is always astock of lumber estimated at 125,006,000 feet. To keepthese filled to their fullest capacity a number of millscluster around the falls, employing, some of them, over athousand men; supplied with the finest machinery;lighted with powerful electric lights, by the aid of whichwork during the season is maintained without ceasingboth day and night. The extent of the lumber trade ofthis region, of which Ottawa is the centre, may be estim-ated by the fact that, during the past sixteen years, anannual average of 3,785,000 p
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