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Identifier: picturesqueridea00ride (find matches)
Title: The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Rideau Lakes Navigation Co
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Publisher: Ottawa, Federal Press Co.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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to discover what he had been led to suppose was theNorth Sea. During this voyage up the Ottawa, with two canoes, he experienc-ed much hardship and many difficulties. Continually menaced by wanderingbands of Indians, he was at last forced to abandon his provisions, and to trustentirely to hunting and fishing to provide him with the necessaries of life.Champlain finally reached the country ofNipissing nation, on the shores of LakeNipissing, and. finding that the Ottawa as a route to the North Sea was a mis-take, he resolved to return to Quebec, which he reached, after great hardshipsand privations, and he soon afterwards sailed for France. THE TRIP BY STEAMER. The trip by steamer, either up the Ottawa to the Capital of the Dominion,or down the river to Montreal, is one of the most beautiful and charmingtrips in Canada. The steamers are modern steel vessels, very fleet, and welladapted for day tourist travel; commodious and comfortably furnished, and the 4o TJw Picturesque Rideau Route.
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WHERE THE TROUT HIDE The Picturesque Rideau Route. 41 meals are well prepared and nicely served; the officers of the company are ex-perienced and renowned for their politeness and attention to passengers. Many points of interest are passed, and the steamer stops at the principalvillages and towns en route to land passengers and mails. The river, dividing as it does the two Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, isspecially interesting. From the steamer may be seen, on the left bank, thepicturesque churches, monasteries, peaceful villages and seigniorial establish-ments of French Canada, and on the opposite shore the newer and thrivingvillages and farm houses situated in the Province of Ontario. The lower Ottawa is replete with numerous and interesting historicalsubjects. At the Chute a Blondeau-au pied du longue sault—Dollard des Ormeauxand his brave Frenchmen perished in 1660 in their stand against the Iroquois. At Carillon (chime of bells) there is the greatest dam, perhaps, in theworld

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  • bookcontributor:Queen_s_University_Library__W_D__Jordan_Special_Collections_and_Music_Library
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