. Canada : a descriptive text book . a population of about fifty thousand. London,with forty thousand people, is the distributing point for the westernpeninsula. Ottawa, the Dominion capital, is picturesquely situatedon the Ottawa river. The Chaudiere and Rideau falls furnish immensepower, which is transmitted in the form of electricity to all parts of thecity. The Parliament buildings form perhaps the finest group of build-ings in Canada. Ottawa is the chief centre of the lumber business ofOntario and has large saw mills and piling yards. The Roman CatholicUniversity is situated in the city a
. Canada : a descriptive text book . a population of about fifty thousand. London,with forty thousand people, is the distributing point for the westernpeninsula. Ottawa, the Dominion capital, is picturesquely situatedon the Ottawa river. The Chaudiere and Rideau falls furnish immensepower, which is transmitted in the form of electricity to all parts of thecity. The Parliament buildings form perhaps the finest group of build-ings in Canada. Ottawa is the chief centre of the lumber business ofOntario and has large saw mills and piling yards. The Roman CatholicUniversity is situated in the city and also one of the Provincial Normalschools. Kingston, on Lake Ontario, at the entrance to the St. Lawrenceand Rideau Canal, is a fortified city and has important shipping inter-ests. It is the seat of the Royal Military College and of Queens Uni-versity. Other cities are Brantford, Windsor, Peterboro, Guelph,Stratford, St. Thomas, Belleville, St. Catharines and Chatham. 80 CANADA. CHAPTER XL MANITOBA AND THE ?; *AR away to the north-west of the early Frenchsettlements in Quebec, lay a great unknownland, the haunt of the Indian, the buffalo andthe beaver. The country was little more than atradition to the French, but it was not long toremain so. The desire for the profits of the furtrade and the love of adventure led the FrenchVoyageurs and traders ever westward. Two French-men, Groseilliers and Radisson, pushed their adventurous way to thewaters of Lake Superior. Here they heard of a sea to the north, anda fur country which offered rich rewards to the trader who shouldbrave the perils of the long journey. The next year, Groseilliers visitedthis country accompanied by a small band of picked men and was muchmore successful in securing furs than even he had expected. He there-fore made his way back to Quebec with a scheme for the establishingof a trading post on Hudson Bay. But the Intendant discouraged him,preferring to have the Indians come to the French
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