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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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accoon, Grey, Red and Flying Squirrels. That inter-esting animal, the Beaver, was once numerous in this district, but the trapperhas almost exterminated him. His patiently-constructed dams remain, however.to attest his industry. To those interested in primitive man, Indian remains ofconsiderable antiquity offer a fruitful field for investigation. A fortified village,open-air workshops, arrowheads, gouges, pipes and other remains attest thelong residence of the Mississaguas, a sub-tribe of the great Algonquin race.Dr. Beeman. of Perth, an ardent archaeologist, has made many interesting re-ports to the Canadian Archaeological Society concerning his investigations alongthe Rideau, and is ever ready to give strangers the benefit of his experience.Old residents near Olivers Ferry still remember the ghastly Indian custom ofexposing their dead by the shores of the lake until the last vestige of flesh haddisappeared, when the bones were removed to the burial ground of the tribe,near Montreal.
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PROFILE GLADSTONE. NEAR JONES FALLS The Picturesque Rideau Route. 37 We are glad to hear again the torrent of Jones Falls, and from the vinecladbalconies of the De Kenny House watch its snowy waters tumbling over hugeboulders into the lake below. This house is so largely patronized by Americansportsmen that the astute host flies the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jackside by side. It is a favorite resort for yacht owners, and men of semi-nauticalappearance lounge around and exchange fish stories, after the time-honoredmanner of the imaginative angler. We dearly love the fisherman, not thecareless creature who casts a fly and tells you it is all the same to him whetherhe catches small fry or a record-breaker. May such benighted beings be doomedto whip Ashless streams throughout the endless ages. But the ardent discipleof the inimitable Izaak Walton, who would quarrel with his best friend over halfan ounce in the weight of a fish—commend us to that man. Like the typicalEnglishman, he

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