. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 6 THE MATTAWA DISTKIOT. The Nipissing Times, of North Bay, now turns its attention to the territory embraced in the townships of Mattawa, Olger, Phelps, Mulock and Widdifield, which lie on the north side of the Mattawa river, between the Ottawa river and Lake Nipissing. Mattawa is a very pretty village of nine hundred inhabitants, situated at the junction of the Ottawa and Mattawa rivers. It had its origin in the establishment at this point,
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 6 THE MATTAWA DISTKIOT. The Nipissing Times, of North Bay, now turns its attention to the territory embraced in the townships of Mattawa, Olger, Phelps, Mulock and Widdifield, which lie on the north side of the Mattawa river, between the Ottawa river and Lake Nipissing. Mattawa is a very pretty village of nine hundred inhabitants, situated at the junction of the Ottawa and Mattawa rivers. It had its origin in the establishment at this point, of a Hudson Bay Company trading post, and the founding of a mission by the Oblate Fathers among the Indians, before the lumbermen, who were the pioneers of the Upper Ottawa, penetrated the wilderness so far northward. Its growth and commercial t importance subsequently arose, however, from the extension of lumber indus- tries in the district of Nipissing. There are here some stores devoted to general or special lines of merchandise and shops devoted to mechanical industries, which will compare favorably with those of the same class in towns of greater pretensions. 1 here are a public and separate school and churches with resident pastors belonging to the Roman Catholic, An- glican, Presbyterian and Methodist persuasions. Moreover, the hotel accommodations here, which are always an object of interest to the traveller, will not be surpassed by any outside of the great cities. There is also a large saw mill, owned by J as. McCool & Co , situated about a mile above the town, where all kinds of lumber required for building purposes may be obtained. Tne stranger visiting Mattawa, for the first time, will probably be unfavorably impressed by rough and rocky appearance of its site ; but the multitude of boulders which cover the ground is soon lost sight of amid the beauty and sublimity of its surroundings. The lofty mountains whose blue summits mark, in the distance, the bounds on
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