94 Up the Ottawa. 



river. The higher of the two hills, from which it obtains its 

 name, is called Calvary, and is held sacred by the Canadians 

 and the remnant of the Indian tribes living at its base, con- 

 sisting of Iroquois, Algonquins, and Nepissings. Near this 

 lake, on the north-east, are St. Eustache, St. Benoit, and 

 Ste. Scholastique, all of them, but especially the former, 

 celebrated in the history of the rebellion of '37, as being one 

 of the points at which the rebels made their headquarters. 

 Sir John Colborne attacked it, and was completely successful, 

 though with great destruction of life and property. The 

 handsome church was burnt, the presbytere and about sixty 

 of the principal houses. One of the leaders was killed near 

 the church, and numbers fell, burnt, suffocated, or shot. At 

 St. Benoit, the people profiting by the destruction of St. 

 Eustache, advanced with a flag of truce, and 250 of the in- 

 surgents unconditionally surrendered, and w r ere paroled. 

 This may be said to have terminated the insurrection, as far 

 as Lower Canada was concerned. The banks of the Ottawa 

 River, generally speaking, are low, with hills rising in the 

 distance some three or four miles inland ; and from Lake St. 

 Louis up to Carillon the banks are higher than elsewhere, if 

 we except Grenville, to which place from Carillon runs a 

 canal formed to overcome the impetuous rapids called the 

 Carillon, "the Chute a Blondeau," and "Long Sault." Op- 

 posite to Carillon, twenty-seven miles from Ste. Anne, at 

 Point Fortune, is the diverging point of the boundary line 

 between Upper and Lower Canada, the Ottawa from here 

 upwards being the natural division between the Provinces. 

 Two miles from here lies the pretty village of St. Andrews 

 on the North River, and LaChute, seven miles further 

 east. These villages seem to have taken theirnames 

 from Fort Carillon and its surroundings near Lake Cham- 

 plain. 



At Carillon the traveller leaves the " Prince of Wales" and 

 is conveyed by railway through a prettily wooded tract of 



