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Title: 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
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Railroads Summer resorts
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : Wm C. Gage & Son
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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QUEBEC. 25 gUEBEG. ig^HERE is no city in America more famous in the annals offe) history than Quebec, and few on the continent of Europemore picturesquely situated. Whilst the surroundingscenery reminds one of the unrivaled views of the Bosphorus, theairy site of the citadel and town calls to mind Innspruck and Edin-burgh. Quebec has been well termed the Gibraltar of America,and is the only walled city on the continent. The scenic beauty of
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GATE IN THE WALL AT QUEBEC. Quebec has been the theme of general eulogy, The majestic appear-ance of Cape Diamond and the fortifications,—the cupolas and min-arets, like those of an eastern city, blazing and sparkling in the sun,—the loveliness of the panorama,—the noble basin, like a sheet ofpurest silver, in which might ride with safety a hundred sail of theline,—the graceful meandering of the river St. Charles,—the numer-ous village spires on either side of the St. Lawrence,—the fertilefields, dotted with innumerable cottages, the abodes of a rich andmoral peasantry,—the distant Falls of Montmorency,—the park-like scenery of Point Levi,—the beauteous Isle of Orleans,—and,more distant still, the frowning Cape Tourmente, and the loftyrange of purple mountains of the most picturesque forms whichbound the prospect, unite to form a coup doeil, which, withoutexaggeration, is scarcely to be surpassed in any part of the world.Few cities offer so many striking contrasts

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