Identifier: montrealcanadian00canauoft (find matches)
Title: Montreal; the Canadian metropolis and its picturesque environments
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Subjects: Montréal (Québec)
Publisher: (Montreal)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at fair city with its crown of towers. The citys site for grandeur issecond only to that of Quebec, being located on the Ottawa River, the thirdgreatest stream in volume in all Canada, where the Rideau and Gatineau join. Ottawa, it is claimed, is the most picturesque capital in the world,and in many ways it is striving to be the Washington of the North. Thewaters of the Ottawa, which are here set between the provinces of Ontarioand Quebec, pour over the Chaudiere Falls—resembling in shape the rim of ahuge cauldron or kettle; and the Rideau Falls, half a mile distant, where theRideaus flood leaps into the Ottawa, are so called from their likeness to a curtain—rideau. This waterfall also gives name to the vice-regal residence of theGovernors-General of Canada, from which it is only a stones throw distant. Acrossthe Ottawa, opposite Rideau Hall, is the mouth of the Gatineau, along which, beforeits confluence with the larger stream, are numerous picturesque rapids. Its great 20 OTTAWA
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a OTTAWA 21 water power has long since made Ottawa the chief lumber and milling centre ofthe Dominion, and in its immense saw mills and other industries are attractions tothe tourist, while to ride down the timber slides by which the square timber of theupper Ottawa passes uninjured down to the navigable waters below, is an excitingexperience which many visitors enjoy. It is the national buildings, however, whichare the chief glory of Ottawa, andthe principal object of interest to strangers. They stand out boldly on ParliamentHill, a steep promontory, rising loo feet or more from the Ottawa River, in all thebeauty of seemingly varied architecture. The octagonal library in the rear of theHouses of Parliament—much like the chapter house of a cathedral—is one of themost complete in the world, and contains about 200,000 volumes, some of whichare exceedingly rare books. These buildings, with the Eastern and WesternDepartmental Blocks which tlank the square fronting the main structure,

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