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Title: Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of Canada. By N.M. Hinshelwood. Illustrated from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hinshelwood, N. M
Subjects: Laurentian Mountains
Publisher: (Montreal Herald Press)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Th^ Loiccr Endof the Toiun Shawinigan Water and Power Co. in transforming a trackless waste into aprosperous manufacturing town, and making such things possible, will beappreciated by both the trading community and the individual. Greatpraise must be meted out to Wallace C. Johnson, Esq., (of Niagara FallsDevelopment fame), the Chief Engineer of the Company, whose fertile brainoriginated and carried out this huge engineering plan which has transposedtiie first conception of what might be, into the assured success that is.Nor must Messrs. T. Pringle & Son, Hydraulic and Mining Engineers,of Montreal, be forgotten, for to them is the credit of the survey workand construction of the canal, etc. Who shall dare to limit the commercial possibilities of towns havingsuch a wealth of electrical power to draw upon : power that is cheap, andpower that is practically unlimited. / hear the tread of pioneers Of a natiofi yet to be, The first low hum of waves, where soon Shall roll the human sea.
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One of the Peiislocks Ihat feed thei,A Pulp Mill diirin^r construction) Chapter VI. Rambuks Around Shawinigan. THK visitor at Shawinigan need have no anxiety as to what to do>with the twenty-fonr honrs of each day. Recreation can be hadin ways to suit all. For a certainty the first objective point willbe the Falls. There, sitting on one of the many seats or lying onthe gronnd, minntes will lapse into honrs before one can tearthemselves away. By following the path through the trees on the right, glimpses of theriver tearing down the gorge are seen, the contrast of the white foam of thewaters and the dark green of tlie trees calling for continual admiration-The end of this path brings into view the log slide, the top of which waspassed on our way to the Falls. Logs floating down the stream wouldassuredly lose their identity in going over the Falls, and so to avoid this lossthe Government some years ago built a water chute. By means of a broadtimber boom, anchored to the river bed abo

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