Identifier: touristtravelvia00granuoft (find matches)
Title: Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) : The System
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University

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ith the fact that a public hall of im-mense capacity, — the Massey Music Hall, — is available for largegatherings, and the hotel facilities are ample for the accommodationof large crowds of visitors, coupled with the well-known hospitalit\ ofthe people,— all combine to induce prompt acceptance of Torontos in-vitation to conventions to assemble here. Toronto is also reached from the west by way of Hamilton, theToronto & Hamilton Division of the Grand Trunk System, thirty-ninemiles in extent, being the line by which the travel from the SouthernDivision, both east and west, is afforded an outlet to the north shore ofLake Ontario. Through sleeping-car service is rendered by this linebetween New York and Toronto, via Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Theroute from Hamilton to Toronto is through a fine section of country,with stretches of delightful scenery, glimpses being afforded of LakeOntario, as the road skirts its shores or the openings in the landscapereveal its glistening waters.
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THK HIGHLANDS OF ONTARIO. A SECTION of country lying north of Toronto, and reached by the■^*- Northern and Midland Divisions of the Grand Trunk System,has received the appellation of the Highlands of Ontario, and isfast becoming widely knov.n as a summer resort, the yearly increasingthrong of tourists attesting its growing popularity. It embraces thecountry lying east of Georgian Bay, extending north to the Magneta- lanJ. It suggests the idea of some prehistoric upheaval of the greatdeep, resulting in a nearly equal division of the surface, for manyhundreds of square miles, into land and water. It ma>- readily lie inferred that such a section of countrv mustpresent many attractions to the tourist in search of scenery or sport,

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