. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. GRAND TRUNK wan River district, and receives its name from the fact that its elevationis from seven hundred to one thousand feet above sea level. It is aregion of singular attractiveness, botli by reason of its peculiar topog-raphy and the resultant climatic conditions. A glance at the map ofthis section of
. Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast. GRAND TRUNK wan River district, and receives its name from the fact that its elevationis from seven hundred to one thousand feet above sea level. It is aregion of singular attractiveness, botli by reason of its peculiar topog-raphy and the resultant climatic conditions. A glance at the map ofthis section of Ontario reveals a curious commingling of land andwater. Islands of every size, and almost without number, dot the largerbodies of water, while lakes, big and little, diversify the surface of the wlONG THE ISLANDS OF LAKE MUSKOKA. in size from a mere pond to those of t\vent\ or tliirtymiles in length, tiie largest being Muskoka, Kosseau, andJoseph. Their elevation is seven hundred and fifty feetabove Lake Ontario, and the healthfulness of the regionis proverbial, while the hunting and fishing are not sur-passed anywhere. The chief port of the Muskoka steamers is Muskoka. ami the reader w;ll not Ije surprised to learn that this region isconstanly gaining in popularity as its advantages becomemore widely known. Ready access to this section is had bythe trains of the Northern Division of the Grand Trunk Rail-way System, and the summer schedule is arranged to accommo-date the traveling public, with special reference to making closeconnection with the steamers of the Muskoka Navigation Com-pany, which ply upon the Muskoka Lakes and MagnetawaiiRiver, and with the Northern Navigation Company of Ontario(limitedI covering the Georgian Bay. The Muskoka district has some eight hundred lakes, varying Wharf, at the southern nf Lake Musko-ka. Here the tourist may embark for a most de-lightful trip through the chain of lakes. The routeto Bracebridge comprises ten miles of lake and
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