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Title: The picturesque Rideau route ... through the most charming scenery in America
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Rideau Lakes Navigation Co
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Publisher: Ottawa, Federal Press Co.
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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spires of her Houses of Parliament crowning her woodedheights, and keeping ward and watch over the waters flowing at their feet.Here we make a stay, all too brief to do justice to this delightful and mosthospitable of cities and its charming people, and return to the steamer so as totake in the scenery lost over night. On the return we see the Drowned Lands, caused by the building andoverflowing of dams. Owing to the abundant growth of wild rice, this districthas become the favorite breeding and feeding grounds of wild ducks. Of thesethe sportsman finds an infinite variety, and of a quality to satisfy the epicureantaste of a Lucullus. THE HOME OF THE WILD DUCK Amongst others may be mentioned the native Wood Duck, which builds inhollow trees, the Widgeon, the Bluebill, also native; the Broadbill, the Redhead,the somewhat rare Shoveler, the American Goldeye, the Blue Wing, and GreenWing Teal, the Black, the Mallard and the Canvasback. Wild geese are also The Picturesque Rideau Route 35
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JONES FALLS 36 The Picturesque Rideau Route. very numerous. There is a good supply of game in the woods, amongst whichare several varieties of snipe, notably the Wilson, dear to epicures, thePartridge, the Yellow-Legged Plover and Woodcock. Of larger birds, there arethe Baldheaded Eagle, the Great Northern Diver, the Osprey, and others ofsimilar character. Those who wish to penetrate into the deep woods will findDeer, Bear, Lynx, Wildcat, and occasionally a stray Wolf, with abundance ofFoxes, Mink. Muskrat, Raccoon, Grey, Red and Flying Squirrels. That inter-esting animal, the Beaver, was once numerous in this district, but the trapperhas almost exterminated him. His patiently-constructed dams remain, however.to attest his industry. To those interested in primitive man, Indian remains ofconsiderable antiquity offer a fruitful field for investigation. A fortified village,open-air workshops, arrowheads, gouges, pipes and other remains attest thelong residence of the Mississaguas, a sub-

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