Identifier: seasonof1890summ00gran (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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PORTLAND. ii 7m 617Y OF P0R7W0. T>p\ORTLAND, in the State of Maine, the eastern terminal of theTj^i Grand Trunk Railway, is beautifully situated on a penin-± sula in the southwestern extremity of Casco Bay. It wasfirst named Falmouth, was settled by an English colony in 1632,and was three times burnt in the wars with the French and Indians,while, in 1866, a fire destroyed $10,000,000 worth of property. Ithas a population of some 40,000 inhabitants and possesses broad,shaded streets, and handsome public and private edifices, at thesame time forming a centre to the numerous watering-places withinreach, where the purest of sea air can be enjoyed. Among theseare Old Orchard, Pine Point and Biddeford Pool, all of which arewithin a few minutes ride by rail, while Cushings Island, PeaksIsland, Long Island, and Chebeague Island can be reached severaltimes daily by the steamers, which ply in the bay. By those fondof the water, capital boating and yachting can here be enjoyed.
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OTTAWA HOUSE, CUSHINGS ISLAND. CUSHIIVGS ISLAND. Cushings Island, in the beautiful Casco Bay, is two and onehalf miles from Portland. One of the finest hotels on the coast ofMaine is situated on the island, on an eminence of over 100 feetabove the sea, commanding, from its broad veranda, unrivaledviews of ocean, islands, main-land, harbor and city, with the sub-lime peaks of the White Mountains in the western horizon. In ad-dition to the hotel, there are also about twenty-five cottages on theIsland. The average temperature during the summer months issixty-six degrees, and because of its altitude and the invigoratingsea breezes which continually fan its shores, and the balsamic

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