Identifier: thousandislandsa00onew (find matches)
Title: Thousand Islands, archipelago of the St. Lawrence River
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: One Who Has Been There
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Publisher: Watertown, N.Y. : Daily Times Printing and Publishing House
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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us hailed the strandsAs Blessed Virgin Marys lands;The red men mutely heard, surprised.Their heathen names all christianized.Next floated a banner with cross and crown:Twas Freedoms eagle plucked it down,Retaining its pure and crimson dyesWith stars of tiieir own, their native skies. There St. Lawrence gentlest flows,There the south-wind softest blows.There the lilies whitest bloom.There the birch liMth leafiest bloom,There the ivd clicr IVimI in spring,There doth glitter wood ducks wing.There leap the nnisealonge at morn.There the loons night song is borne,There is the fishermans paiadise.With trolling skill at red sunrise. The Thousand Isles, The Thousand Isles,Their charm from every care beguiles,iitiaii alone Imlli power to paintThe (riumpli of theii patron saint,Whose waves return on Memorys tide:LaSalle and Piquet, side by sideProud Frontenac and bold Ghamplain,There act their wanderings oer again;And while their golden sunlight smiles,Pilgrims sliall greet thee. Thousand Isles.
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HON. R. A. LIVINGSTONS ISLAND A SUMMER PARADISE, THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. ^^^f^ATURE nowhere presents more alluring charmsthan in that labyrinth of land and water known asThe Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence.In the old Indian days this beautiful extent of the riverwas called Manatoana, or Garden of the Great Spirit, andwell might the islands, when covered with thick forests, thedeer swimming from wooded isle to wooded isle, and eachlittle lily-padded bay nestling in among the hills and bluffsof the islands, and teeming with waterfowl, seem to theIndian, in his half poetic mood, like some beautiful regiondedicated to his Supreme Deity. HISTORICAL. This region has a history full of romantic interest, as any-one can imagine when he remembers that it has four timesbeen the border land between contending nations : First,between the two great Indian races, the Algoncjuins and theIroquois ; next, between the French and the English, andtwice between the English and Aix^ricans. But our spacei

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