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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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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GRAND TRUNK wan River district, and receives its name from the fact that its elevationis from seven hundred to one thousand feet above sea level. It is aregion of singular attractiveness, botli by reason of its peculiar topog-raphy and the resultant climatic conditions. A glance at the map ofthis section of Ontario reveals a curious commingling of land andwater. Islands of every size, and almost without number, dot the largerbodies of water, while lakes, big and little, diversify the surface of the wlONG THE ISLANDS OF LAKE MUSKOKA. in size from a mere pond to those of t\vent\ or tliirtymiles in length, tiie largest being Muskoka, Kosseau, andJoseph. Their elevation is seven hundred and fifty feetabove Lake Ontario, and the healthfulness of the regionis proverbial, while the hunting and fishing are not sur-passed anywhere. The chief port of the Muskoka steamers is Muskoka

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