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Title: Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Subjects: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Railroads Summer resorts
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich. : Wm C. Gage & Son
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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ion of all who see them.They are picturesquely situated where Lake Cameron empties itselfinto the Fenelon River: and the government has erected locks POR T PERR V A ND PE TERR ()R O. 57 here to complete this chain of inland communication. Progressingin a northerly direction Haliburton is reached, by a branch of theGrand Trunk, formerly known as the Victoria Railway. Here areto be found the great lumber regions of the English ColonizationCompany, where are numerous lakes and streams; where lovers ofthe gentle art can meet with the best of sport, while there is no sec-tion of country where deer are more plentiful. There are impor-tant stone quarries here, while Mount Snowden may be regarded asa solid mountain of iron. South of Lindsay is Port Perry, a pret-tily situated town of some 3,000 inhabitants, on the Scugog, pos-sessing many attractions to the tourist. Thirty miles north of -Port Hope, and ninety miles northeast ofToronto, is the thriving town of Peterboro, which is now entering
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3£ 4£T -*5 PETERBORO. the dignity of a city, and whose growth and development have beenrapid and well assured. No part of Canada owes more to itspioneers than this charming and most healthful lake-land. Someof the finest towns were, two generations ago, jungles reeking withmalaria, and infested by wolves, black flies, black snakes and blackbears. Now all is transformed. The history of Peterboro datesback to 1825, when Peter Robinson led thither his first band ofIrish emigrants. The town has now a population of some 10,000inhabitants, and is joined to the Village of Ashburnham, opposite,by a handsome bridge. There is good hotel acccommodation,excellent fishing in the river, and no one making a tour in MidlandOntario should neglect a visit to this place. 58 SUMMER RESORTS. Further east, and a terminal point of the line, is Madoc, whichcan also be reached from Belleville, a distance of some thirty miles. To the miner and metallurgist Madoc Township became in thefall of 1866 an object o

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