. Guide to the city of Ottawa and its vicinity ... designed for the use of visitors to the Grand Dominion Exhibition ... on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Sept. 1879 . Howland; Horticultural Prouucts—Messrs. Burnett, Roy andSaunders ; Agricultural Products—Messrs. Rykert, , Drury and Mc-Kinnon ; DaM-y Products—Messrs. K. Graham, T. Ballantyne, , andBell. Otiawa Local Committee. The Mayor and Corporation of the City ot Ottawa ; Dr. Beatty, Warden of theCounty of Carleton; Ron <R. W Scott, P. C. ; Hon. -J^mes Skead; J. M Currier, ;A. Wright, Esq., M P.; John Rocheste
. Guide to the city of Ottawa and its vicinity ... designed for the use of visitors to the Grand Dominion Exhibition ... on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Sept. 1879 . Howland; Horticultural Prouucts—Messrs. Burnett, Roy andSaunders ; Agricultural Products—Messrs. Rykert, , Drury and Mc-Kinnon ; DaM-y Products—Messrs. K. Graham, T. Ballantyne, , andBell. Otiawa Local Committee. The Mayor and Corporation of the City ot Ottawa ; Dr. Beatty, Warden of theCounty of Carleton; Ron <R. W Scott, P. C. ; Hon. -J^mes Skead; J. M Currier, ;A. Wright, Esq., M P.; John Rochester, Esq., ; Joseph Tasse, Esq , ; OConnor, M. P.; Messrs John Henderson, R Cleland, John Dawson. WilliamCowan, Thomas Clark, Archibald cKellar A. Rowe, W. H. Hurdman, A. S. Woodburn,E. , J. P. , Dr Grant, Geo Hay, Principal McCabe, H. Robillard,Allan Gilmour, Dr. St. Jean, W H Waller, P Baskuville, M.^.P., Col. White, T. Maro^Leduc^^Dd^^n^j^hri^^hworth. DOMINION EXHIBITION GUIDE. JAS. HOPE & Co., Manufacturing Stationers and General Bookbinders, Cor. Sparks k Elgin Sts. 0 TTAWA AMD ER NYIRONS. *<-&m$&^m^. [TIRING the years which brought the eighteenthcentury to a close, a Boston gentleman, , arrived at the Chaudiere and determinedto settle in the vicinity. He obtained, withoutmuch difficulty, considerable tracts cf land, and,establishing himself upon the north shore of theer, sowed the seeds of that great lumber trade forwhich the Ottawa region is justly famed. Then thedistrict was virtually in its primeval condition, neitherenterprise nor industry having commenced the work ofreclamation. Upon the south shore the land was, in an agricul-tural sense, not of a promising character, being both rocky andsandy. But Mr. Wright had, nevertheless, secured a considerabletract of land south of the river, and it fell out that one of hisworkmen, Nicholas Sparks, accepted, in lieu of payment ofcertain wages, some Jaindreds of ac
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