. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . miles, while the Mistassimiis traversed for a distanceof twenty miles, by a steam-boat recently built, capableof carrying three hundredpersons. The whole of thisnorthern region aboundswith lakes, all of them lit-erally stock
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . miles, while the Mistassimiis traversed for a distanceof twenty miles, by a steam-boat recently built, capableof carrying three hundredpersons. The whole of thisnorthern region aboundswith lakes, all of them lit-erally stocked with fish, es-pecially the spotted trout,some of which have beencaught weighing from tento fourteen pounds. The re-gion is remarkably healthy,the air cool, the soil dryand hard, and on many alake a camp fire has neverbeen lit. In short, thetourist can spend a monthin this district with perfectenjoyment. The Adiron-dacks are not more famousthan these woods and wa-ters of the north will soonbe. Lake Edward, aboutmidway between Quebecand Lake St. John, is a INDIAN CURIOSITY SELLER. 1()Vely twenty-OUC miles in length, swarming with large trout of a kind peculiar tothis lake, having a dark red flesh. Among other points may be mentioned Lake St. Joseph, sur-rounded by mountains, the very base of which is almost touchedby the little steamer plying on its MONTREAL. 33 MGMTREflL TEgpTONTREAL, the commercial capital of the Dominion of/^f^ Canada, and the Queen of the St. Lawrence, is one^/T^-^i^. of the most beautiful cities on the continent. It is situ-ated on an Island, at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Law-rence rivers, containing close on 200 square miles, and which, fromits fertility, has been called the Garden of Canada. Montreal isdistant from Quebec 172 miles, from Toronto 333 miles, and fromOttawa 120 miles. The river front is lined for over a mile with lofty and massivewalls, quays and terraces of gray limestone, unequaled elsewherein the world, except
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