A pioneer of imperial federation in Canada . are lighted, heated, and propelledby electricity generated by the ChaudiereFalls. ii6 IMPERIAL FEDERATION Ottawa contains several good buildings,such as the Post-Office, the Roman CatholicCathedral of Notre Dame, the OttawaUniversity (a Roman Catholic Institution),the Normal School, and the City also are situated the offices of theGeological Survey of Canada, containing anexcellent museum, and the Printing Bureau,in which all the Government printing isdone and which is in charge of Dr. S. , a well-known writer upon subjectsof Canad
A pioneer of imperial federation in Canada . are lighted, heated, and propelledby electricity generated by the ChaudiereFalls. ii6 IMPERIAL FEDERATION Ottawa contains several good buildings,such as the Post-Office, the Roman CatholicCathedral of Notre Dame, the OttawaUniversity (a Roman Catholic Institution),the Normal School, and the City also are situated the offices of theGeological Survey of Canada, containing anexcellent museum, and the Printing Bureau,in which all the Government printing isdone and which is in charge of Dr. S. , a well-known writer upon subjectsof Canadian history. I left Toronto on Monday, the 28th ofOctober, soon after eight oclock in themorning, after a most pleasant visit of tendays at Upper Canada College, I arrivedat Ottawa about five oclock, and foundSir Sandford Fleming waiting at the stationto receive me. I drove with him to hisresidence, Winterholm, in Chapel Street,where I found myself in most comfortablequarters at his hospitable house. The next day I called with Sir Sandford. SiK S.\M>l(iKI) 1- , OTTAWA 117 Fleming at RIdeau Hall, the GovernmentHouse. The Governor-General received memost courteously in the short interview Ihad with his Excellency, which I the moreappreciated, as this happened to be Mailday, when his Lordship was more thanusually occupied in consequence. I after-wards went over the House of the DominionParliament with Sir Sandford is indeed an imposing and superbpile of buildings. On the other side ofthe Ottawa River is the township of Hull,a suburb of Ottawa, where the disastrousfire commenced which did such terribledamage to the city a year or two I visited, and I was not surprised tohear of the tremendous destruction thisfire caused, on seeing the large number oftimber-yards stored with timber and otherinflammable material, with which the town-ship of Hull abounds. Thursday the 31st of October was fixedfor me to deliver another address on ii8 IMPERIAL FE
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