. Ottawa, the picturesque city. nada began to comedown and up the Rideau Canal. As late as 1854 travellers say that Ottawa, or Bytownas it was known then in honor of Colonel By, was a mostdesperately dirty place so far as its roads and streets wereconcerned—no one having time or taking the trouble tomake an orderly arrangement of streets. Compare this with Ottawa of to-day as you see it—beauti-fully wooded yet on its residential streets—but with the beststreet cleaning system in all Canada and bustling, live, com-mercial streets the equal of any in the world for a city its size. The Lumber Ind
. Ottawa, the picturesque city. nada began to comedown and up the Rideau Canal. As late as 1854 travellers say that Ottawa, or Bytownas it was known then in honor of Colonel By, was a mostdesperately dirty place so far as its roads and streets wereconcerned—no one having time or taking the trouble tomake an orderly arrangement of streets. Compare this with Ottawa of to-day as you see it—beauti-fully wooded yet on its residential streets—but with the beststreet cleaning system in all Canada and bustling, live, com-mercial streets the equal of any in the world for a city its size. The Lumber Industry Founded by an American. It wi I please our visitors from the South to know7 that oneof our greatest industries, lumbering, was founded longbefore Ottawa as a Capital was dreamed of. Even whenthis part of the country was a practically unknown wilder-ness—one Philemon Wright, a hardy pioneer of New Eng-land—foresaw the opportunity in the well wooded land onthe Quebec side and brought over enough neighbors to start. a settlement. He. himself, cut square timber and floatedhis rafts to Quebec city thus starting the lumber industryin these parts. This trip is now a favorite one by boat for summer visitors—down the Ottawa to Montreal and then on the statelySt. Lawrence River to Quebec, returning in most eases byrail, and visiting the different cities on the way back atleisure. Ottawa of To-day. To-day we see the Chaudiere and the Rideau—so graph-ically described by Parkman in our opening- paragraph—•harnessed up to furnish White Coal or electrical energyand this has been done so cleverly that Ottawa is heraldedfar and wide, the world over, as The great cheap powercity and yet is withal one of the cleanest and most orderlyin its industrial section. In the Chaudiere Falls, Rideau Falls, and numerousother water powers close by, Ottawa has more poweravailable for Commercial purposes than even the mightyNiagara supplies—and at less cost. Those who doubt this state
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