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Ottawa Tour Reveals Dual Life of Capital Lumber City
Special correspondence describes Ottawa as a city of contrasts where Parliament Hill looms over a booming lumber district. The piece details Rideau Falls and the Chaudiere mills, booming logs, and the upper and lower town, with notes on Parliament buildings, the library, Rideau canal, Rideau Hall, and civic pride in a thriving industrial and governmental hub.
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Ottawa
Ont
North Bay
Canadian Pacific
Montréal
Nipissing Junction
Grand Trunk Railway
Toronto
Niagara Falls
United States
Lake Huron
Dominion
Mattewa
Lake Temiscamingue
Algonquin Park
Ontario
Montreal
Hudson's Bay Company
Pembroke
St. Lawrence
Almonte
Parkenham
Arnprior
Renfrew
Arnpchor
Kingston
Lake Ontario
Carleton Place Junction
Brockville
St. Lawrence River
Carleton
Hull
Wolfe's Cove
Quebec
Chaudiere Falls
Rideau River
Rideau
Roabie
Laws
Great Britain
Rideau Canal
Parliament
Rideau Hall
Rideau Canal and
Geological Survey Department
Museum of Natural History
Church of Notre Dame
Parliament Hill
Lkely
Canada
W. W. Carson
First Methodist Church
John Macoun
John R. Hall
Department of the Interior
Chandlere Falls
Blakeney
Puget Bound
Commons
Senate
Queen Victoria
George III
Queen Charlotte
House of Commons
Prince of Walesa
Poria
Philadelphia
America
Royal William
Atlantic
England
Pleton
Nova Statia
Rideau Falls
New Edinburgh
Lord Aberdeen
Tfe
Cape Vincent
Sth Lawrence
Ottawa River
J. E. Richmond