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Title: Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa, three interesting cities in Canada
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) General Passenger Dept., Grand Trunk Railway System
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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Chateau de Ramezay, built in 1705, Montreal. fort. The confusion that followed enabled the enemy to enter, when oneafter another the soldiers were silenced, only four or five being saved forthe fiendish festivities that always followed a fight. And so they died, Dollard and his companions, but they saved the settle-ment, for the Irocpiois were not over anxious to engage a colony, a handfulof whom had slain hundreds of their best and bravest warriors. Another story is the story of Lachine, that stands at the head ofthe rapids of that name, nine miles up the St. Lawrence from the city ofMontreal. This settlement was begun by La Salle in 1666. You who have crossedthe Rockies by the Rio Grande will remember the majestic mountain rangethat bears the great explorers name. The crumbling ruins of his old homestead are still to be seen by the
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Showing St. Catherine Street, west of Peel Street. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. lower Lachine road, and hard by an old stone windmill where he used tocrush his corn. La Salic named this settlement A la Chine, because hebelieved the road to China lay by the Si. Lawrence Route. On in- way to the unknown West, La Salle founded Fort Frontenac,now Kingston, Ont., built Fort Niagara, discovered the Mississippi, followedit to the Gulf, only to he treacherously slain by his companions in theLouisiana wilds in 10S7. For two years the inhabitants of the little villagewaited and watched for the return of La Salle and his companions. One stormy night on the 4th o\ August, H>vo. the people were awakenedby wild shouts and sprang from their beds to welcome the wanderers.

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