Identifier: quebeccentralrai00queb (find matches)
Title: The Quebec Central Railway. Sights and scenes for the tourist. Pen and pencil sketches of Quebec City, the Chaudiere and St. Francis valleys, and lower St. Lawrence River
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Quebec Central Railway. Passenger Department
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Publisher: Boston: Rand Avery
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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11 of an extensive lumbering establishment, as is also LakeWeeclon, the next station. Now we are in the wilderness, where the houses are of logs,and lumber is king. There is something majestic in thesevast expanses of forest, and our admiration is further excitedby the spirit of enterprise which is visible in this locality.Dr. Grant, in Picturesque Canada, throws some light onits earliest inhabitants. He informs us : — Throughout the Eastern Townships there is a robust strainof the early Massachusetts pioneer. * * * At the epochof the Great Divide, not a few loyalists followed the old flag,and settled a little beyond the Province line. Picking up thedisused axe with a sigh — often with a secret tear — they once
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FRENCH FARMS. more hewed out for themselves homes in the forest. Theybrought across the frontier, with their old Hebrew names,the pith, and industry, and intense earnestness of the Puri-tan. They transported to Canadian soil that old farm-life of New England, which by its quaint ways has stirredso many delightful fancies in American novelists and poets.Such fire-light pictures and winter-idylls as Hawthorne andWhittier love to paint, were here to be seen of a winterevening in every snow-bound homestead. Among the dustyheirlooms of these ***** homes may still be foundandirons that stood on early New England hearths. Burnedout and fallen to ashes are the last forestick and backlog; 12 tfe) ■ and so are that brave old couple who in their gray hairswandered into the Canadian wilderness, and with tremblinghands hung the old crane over a new hearth. From Marbleton, a three-mile branch road runs to the mar-ble quarries and lime kilns of the Sherbrooke and DudswellCo., where a very extensiv

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