With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from With the World's Great Travellers, Vol. 8The beautiful city of the Royal Mount is the largest in the Dominion of Canada, but Quebec is the capital of the province to which they both belong, and Toronto is the capital of the province of Ontario. The Federal capital is the smaller city of Ottawa. Two hundred and fifty years ago the French missions to the Indians discovered the advantages of so commanding a site for a settlement. The founder of the city named it Ville-Marie, desiring it to become a religious centre. It gradually asserted its value as a port and so developed into a great commercial city, getting its present name from the noble mount that crowns its charming terraces. Those who have made the trip along the broad St. Lawrence know how Montreal stands on the island, about thirty miles by seven, formed at the junction of that great river and the Ottawa. From its heights views of great beauty and variety can be enjoyed.Quebec used to catch the trade of the ocean steamers, as the channel was too shallow to allow them to go beyond, being only eleven feet deep; but in 1851 the people of Montreal deepened the river to twenty-seven feet and thus secured the bulk of the trade.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.