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Title: Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) : The System
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University

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season. The tripsteamer wharf tii e entire day, anil (n>ni its inception at theat the dock in Montreal, is a successionof changing delights, embracing a pano-rama of shifting scenery in endlessvariety. A portion of the St. Lawrence trav-el goes by w-ay of Gananoque, at whichjioint the boats touch after leavingKingston; some travelers preferring themorning nap which the later startpermits. This place is also a tourist re-sort of no little prominence, its locationon the shore of the St. Lawrence Rivergiving it many advantages as a stop-ping place for the summer traveler. Ithas several excellent hotels, and offers
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many inducements by way of scenery, boating, lishing, golfing, etc.Steamboat service for tours among the Thousand Islands and tripsto the resorts on the New York shore, is frequent and convenient, andcanoeing and yachting furnish entertainment for the lovers of aquaticsport. As we leave the steamer wharf, and the lake begins to contract toa river, it would .seem as though the land disputed its onward progres.s,and in the struggle for supremacy the resistless current has broken thefirm earth into a thousand fragments, some larger, some smaller, whichvainly endeavor to entangle the waters in their downward course to thesea. A more picturesque river archipelago probably nowhere exists,ahd while much has been written in its praise, the attractions of thelocality have never been overdrawn, nor can they be fully described.The islands number more nearly two thousand than one, and are ofevery conceivable size, shape and appearance, from the merest dot onthe water to an extensive tract of many

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