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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ting and heatingsteam for kitchen and laundry, ice and refrigeration, is supplied the hotel byits own plant in the rear of the station, 400 yards from the hotel, so that theusual vibration from the machinery located within the building will not befelt. The hotel is also connected with the Central Union Station by means ofa subwav at the foot of the main stairwav. CHATS FALLS. Thirty miles, as the crow flies, from the city, on the Upper Ottawa atthe foot of Lake les Chats is a series of rapids from which the lake takes itsname. The river here is nearly one mile in width, and is barred in a diagonaldirection by a huge ledge of limestone rock over which the water pours inwhite foam, and with great noise, from a height of fifty feet. In periods ofhigh water there are thirty-three distinct falls, while there are but sixteen atlow water. The power capable of being developed from these falls is from140,000 to 170,000 horse power. This will be a valuable commercial asset inthe near future. 13
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