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Title: Ottawa, the picturesque city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Publisher: Ottawa, Library Bureau
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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nt commemorates the Ottawa men who died for theEmpire in South Africa. The memory of these Ottawacitizen-soldiers is also kept green by a large memorial window7,and a brass tablet, in St. Bartholomews Church, the formerplaced soon after the Rebellion of 1885, and the latter uponthe conclusion of the late war in South Africa. Drives in and about the City. It may be of interest here to describe a few of the manydelightful drives that one may take in the neighbourhood ofthe City. Starting from the centre of the town, one mayfollow the new Driveway still under construction by theImprovement Commission, either through the Lower Towm,to Xew Edinburgh, Rideau Hall, and Rockliffe Park; or,turning south follow the banks of the Canal to the Experi-mental Farm. If one leaves the Driveway at Bank Street,and crosses the bridge to the southern side of the Canal, agood road brings one in time to a charmingly picturesquelittle waterfall and rapids on the Rideati River, known locallyas the Hoirs Back.
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Along the Ottawa and Lake Deschenes. Another delightful drive turns westward from the city,and follows the Ottawa River to Britannia-on-the Hay,on Lake Deschenes, This summer resort may also beconveniently readied by the Ottawa Electric Railway. The Chats Falls. Aylmer. 9 miles distant, is reached by the Hull ElectricRailway, via the Interprovincial Bridge. From QueensPark, the terminus of this railway, the visitor may take asteamboat twice a week to the splendid series of cataractsknown as the Chats. You remember Parkmans graphicdescription: Like a wall, bristling at the top with wocdyislets, the Fail of the Chats faced them, with the sheer plungeof their sixteen cataracts. The Canadian Adirondacks. If one would wander farther afield, the Chelsea Road leadsinto the heart of a country which is rightly known as theCanadian Adirondacks. Leaving the neighbouring cityof Hull behind, the road rises gradually in a series of splendidsweeps, until the foot of the Chelsea Hills is reached, whe

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