. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. THE OTTAWA KIVEB AND PARLIAMBNT BUILDINGS, SHOWING PL4CB WHEUB CRIliS OF TIMBKK ARE RAFTED AKTEU PASSING THROUGH THB HE Ottawa valley is the centre of the pine lumber trade, and is a thriving district. It includes the country on both banks of the Kiver Ottawa (or Grand River as it was called), that on the north shore being in
. The wood industries of Canada [microform]. Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumbering; Lumber trade; Forests and forestry; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Exploitation forestière; Bois; Forêt et sylviculture. THE OTTAWA KIVEB AND PARLIAMBNT BUILDINGS, SHOWING PL4CB WHEUB CRIliS OF TIMBKK ARE RAFTED AKTEU PASSING THROUGH THB HE Ottawa valley is the centre of the pine lumber trade, and is a thriving district. It includes the country on both banks of the Kiver Ottawa (or Grand River as it was called), that on the north shore being in the province of Quebec, and that on the south in the cf Ontario. The Ottawa is a tributary of the St. I-awrence, into which river it falls at the western extremity of the Island of Montreal. Its length is about 600 miles. On its course the River Gatineau, which is about 300 miles in length, separates the valley towards its centre, in a line nearly per- pendicular running from north to south. It is estimated that over 30,000 square miles of territory are drained by the Ottawa and its tributaries. The district of the Ottawa valley (as may be seen on reference to our map; may be said to commence about Grenville and Hawkesbury on the cast, and to extend to Des Joachims in the west, comprising on the north shore the counties of Ottawa and Pontiac, which are subdivided into townships of about ten miles square, of Rrescott, Russell, Grenville, Carleton, Lanark, and Renfrew. It is ntersected throughout, on both sides of the Ottawa river, with numerous large tributary streams, many of them sur- passing the largest rivers of (ireat Britain. Of those flowing from the north the principal arc the Nation, the du Lievre, the (iatineau, the Coulonge, and the du Moine. On the south side are the Madawaska, the Bonncchere, and the Petewawa. The southern side of the Ottawa is a good agricultural country, being less mountainous than the north shore, but the valleys and rivers travers
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