Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of CanadaBy from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions . The Great Northern Railway of Canada was chartered by Act ofParliament in 1882 to build a railway from Quebec to some point on theOttaw-a River near Carillon, and to open a rich section of country lyingalong the base of the Laurentian Mountains. Construction was begunabout 1884 at St. Jerome, and was slowly pushed eastward until it reachedMontcalm, a distance of twenty-eight miles. In the meantime a r

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Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of CanadaBy from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions . The Great Northern Railway of Canada was chartered by Act ofParliament in 1882 to build a railway from Quebec to some point on theOttaw-a River near Carillon, and to open a rich section of country lyingalong the base of the Laurentian Mountains. Construction was begunabout 1884 at St. Jerome, and was slowly pushed eastward until it reachedMontcalm, a distance of twenty-eight miles. In the meantime a railway, thirty-five miles in length, had been builtunder the name of The Lower Laurentian Railway, running from Rivierea Pierre to a junction with the Piles Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railwaynear vSt. Tite. From vSt. Tite, twenty miles had been built, under the GreatNorthern charter, to St. Boniface. In 1889, therefore, the Cireat Northern.

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