. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . center of a large lumber business, beingsecond only to that of Ottawa; there being some thirty lumbermills, with an annual output of 150,000,000 feet. In short, in this neighborhood will be found the most attractiveof Canada
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . center of a large lumber business, beingsecond only to that of Ottawa; there being some thirty lumbermills, with an annual output of 150,000,000 feet. In short, in this neighborhood will be found the most attractiveof Canadas forest shrines, encircled— By the laughing tides that laveThose Edens of the Northern wave. THE NORTHERN LAKES. THE N0R7HER|s| LAKES. 1/ST) Y their recent acquirement of the Northern and Northwest--T^x ern Railways, the Grand Trunk have added an important *—2J connection to their already extended system. There is noportion of Canada which offers so inviting a field to the summertourist as the varied scenery to be found in the Muskoka districtand along the shores of the Georgian Bay, all of which points arereached by the Northern & Northwestern division of the GrandTrunk. The Muskoka region, with its many hundreds of lakes andstreams, is undoubtedly the best place on the continent for fishing,shooting or camping. The iishing, consisting of brook and salmon. VIEW ON LAKE COUCHICHING. trout, black bass, maskalonge and pickerel, is unequaled; partridgeabound and deer are plentiful. As a health resort it cannot be sur-passed. The many lakes here to be found are among the higheston the continent, being 750 feet above Lake Ontario, 415 feet aboveLake Huron, and 390 feet above Lake Superior. At Lefroy is seen the first view of Lake Simcoe, the first of thevarious chains of inland lakes which are now met with in ferry steamer keeps up constant connection with Roachs Point,a pretty village which is much frequented by tourists in summer onaccount of its excellent boatin
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