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Title: To Ottawa, Ontario via the Rideau Lakes and River from the Thousand Islands and the territory of the New York Central Lines
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York Central Railroad
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Publisher: Buffalo, s.n.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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her important feature is the ventilation of all the rooms.This is accomplished by the use of steam fans, by means ofwhich the passenger can practically gauge the temperature tosuit himself. These features, together with the really elegantfurniture supplied throughout, brought the cost of the Queenup to nearly $40,000. AN HISTORIC CITY.Assuming that the tourist has arrived in Kingston, on the daypreceding his proposed trip up the Rideau we would stronglyadvise a ramble in and about this somewhat interesting city.Situated practically at the foot of Lake Ontario and, therefore,at the head of the grand old St. Lawrence River, the LimestoneCity has always held an important position both commerciallyand from a military viewpoint. Its military importance wasrecognized from a very early date, a settlement having beeneffected there by Governor Frontenac and a fort erected. Itwas, likely, so considered from the time Canada came undercontrol of the British and for a number of years held the dis-
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Four-Track Series No. 34. tinction of being the strongest fortified post along the Canadianborder, with the single exception of Quebec. Though an oldcity, it has kept pace with the general advancement of the coun-try and now boasts, in addition to a population of 20,000, thepossession of good pavements, electric-lighted streets, waterworks and sewerage systems, trolley cars, dry docks, large ele-vators, handsome business blocks, capital hotels and, in fact,most of the appointments which serve to make up a modernizedcity. It will require no great effort on the part of the tourist,however, to establish a close connection between past and pres-ent in the points of interest which are likely to come under hisobservation. Should his entrance be made by water, probablythe first conspicuous objects to catch his eye will be what areknown as the Martello Towers, several of which are to be seenfrom the deck of incoming steamers, one, in fact, occupying ashoal right in the waterfront of the city.

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