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 . Chapter VI. .Chapter VIII. Montreal—Joliette Ottawa—Joliette . Joliette—Shawinigan Falls Shawinigan Falls Engineering Works at Shawinigan Falls Rambles Around Shawinigan Grand Mere—Riviere a Pierre Riviere a Pierre—Quebec Entered accordintj to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1902,by N. M. Hinshelwood, at the Department of Agriculture. THK , MONTREAL, CAN. Amidst
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 . Chapter VI. .Chapter VIII. Montreal—Joliette Ottawa—Joliette . Joliette—Shawinigan Falls Shawinigan Falls Engineering Works at Shawinigan Falls Rambles Around Shawinigan Grand Mere—Riviere a Pierre Riviere a Pierre—Quebec Entered accordintj to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1902,by N. M. Hinshelwood, at the Department of Agriculture. THK , MONTREAL, CAN. Amidst the Laurentians Chapter I. ]\I () X T R1^ A h—J H KTWEEN Montreal and Ouel)ec there lies a level, well wateredcountry, the most fertile in this broad Dominion. Stretching far T3 I I away to the south of the St. Lawrence, and northwards as far as the lower fringe of the Laurentian Hills, it was this land that was the earliest brought into cultivation, and through which one of the first iron roads in the Province of Quebec was built. This railway (the C. P. R.)> however, kept in close touch with the St. Lawrence the greater part of the way between Montreal and 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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