Identifier: abbottsguidetoot00unse (find matches)
Title: Abbott's guide to Ottawa and vicinity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Publisher: Ottawa, G.F. Abbott
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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ioneers of France in the NewWorld : White as a snow-drift, the cataracts of the Chaudiere barred theirway. They saw the unbridled river careering down its sheeted rocks, foam-ing in unfathomed chasms, wearying the solitude with the hoarse outcry ofits agony and rage. On the brink of the rocky basin where the plungingtorrent boiled like a caldron, and puffs of spray sprang out from its con-cussion like smoke from the throat of a cannon, Champlains two Indianstook their stand, and, with a loud invocation, threw tobacco into the foam—an offering to the local spirit, the Manitou of the cataract. Thence pickinghis way amongst the channels and rapids he passes from view. Champlainagain ascended the Ottawa in 1616, and again in 1626 with the Jesuit FathersBreboeuf and Lalement, who were subsequently tortured and burnt to death Trappers and Settlers. The hands of time moved on but slowly. For nearly 200 years the onlyvisitors were trappers and traders who passed up and down the river, the 6
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CHAUDIERE FALLS IN 1854 great thoroughfare from the coast to the interior. These were the pioneersof those who, after nearly 300 years, seek to construct the Georgian BayCanal as a navigable waterway over the route taken by Champlain. It ispossible that the three hundredth anniversary of Champlains journey will seethe greater part of this immense undertaking completed. Our chronologynow brings us to the year 1796, when one Philemon Wright, a loyalist fromWoburn, Massachusetts, landed on the opposite side of the river, where thecity of Hull now stands. In 1806 he and his associates obtained grants ofland, and became the nucleus of the settlement from which sprang the twincities. The site of the present capital was a wilderness until 1826, when LordDalhousie, Col. By and others arrived at Hull for the purpose of consideringthe construction of the proposed Rideau Canal. Bytown. Gradually the site of the present city became inhabited. Many of theearly settlers were descended from that /pr

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