SAINT CATHARINES 



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SAINT CHRISTOPHER 



cost $600,000. Saint Boniface is the county 

 seat of Provencher County and the seat of the 

 Roman Catholic archbishop of Manitoba. It 

 is served by the Canadian Pacific, Canadian 

 Northern (main line), and National Transconti- 

 nental (main line). It is .also on the Great 

 Northern Railway, which runs directly to Min- 

 neapolis and Saint Paul and other cities in the 

 United States. An electric railway runs to 

 Winnipeg, and another extends to Saint Vital, 

 where the now buildings of the provincial agri- 

 cultural college and university are located. 

 Population in 1911, 7,483, an increase of 270 

 per cent over 1901; in 1916, 11,022. 



Saint Boniface is steadily growing in impor- 

 tance as a manufacturing center, the annual 

 value of its products being from $7,000,000 to 

 $8,000,000. This is approximately one-fourth 

 of the value of Winnipeg's production, and a 

 little less than one-sixth of the total for Mani- 

 toba. The principal manufactures are meat 

 and meat products, flour, lumber, bricks, lin- 

 seed oil, paints and dyes, tar paper, sashes and 

 doors and other building materials. One of the 

 flour mills is said to be the largest in the Brit- 

 ish Empire, and the stockyards, which were 

 constructed and equipped at a cost of more 

 than $1,000,000, are probably the greatest in 

 Canada. Hydroelectric power, supplied by the 

 Winnipeg River, is an important factor in 

 manufacturing. 



The city has numerous religious and educa- 

 tional institutions. In addition to the public 

 schools there are Saint Boniface College, affili- 

 ated with the University of Manitoba, a pro- 

 vincial normal school, Saint Adelard's Orphan- 

 age, the convent of the Sisters of Jesus and tin 

 Juniorate of the Oblate Fathers. The Angli- 

 cans, Methodists and Presbyterians have 

 churches here, and the Roman Catholic cathe- 

 !: il. which was completed in 1908 and cost 

 ; $400,000, is the largest west of Toronto. 

 Tin 1 bells in its towers were recast from the old 

 Ix -Us which hung in the Saint Boniface mission 

 for half a century those bells of which tin- 

 poet Whit ti T wrote: 



The voyageur smiles as he listens 

 the sound that grows apa 



\\V1I in- 1 vesper ringing: 



Of the bells of Saint Com 



SAINT CATHARINES, katk'arint, a city 

 in Ontario, the county town of Lincoln County. 

 I in the northern part of the Niagara P 

 sula, on the Welland Canal, and on the Grand 

 Trunk and the Niagara, Saint Catharines A To- 

 ronto railways. It is thirty-two miles by rail 



southeast of Hamilton, eleven and one-half 

 miles north of Niagara Falls and forty-seven 

 miles northwest of Buffalo. Saint Catharines is 

 an important manufacturing center, its chief 

 products being boilers, tools of various kinds, 

 electric lamps and fittings, shoes, paper, knitted 

 goods and biscuits. The annual output of 

 manufactured articles has a value of more than 

 $6,000,000 or about $400 per capita of the city's 

 population. The county buildings, public li- 

 brary, municipal building and the collegiate 

 institute are noteworthy structures. Bishop 

 Ridley College, an Anglican secondary school 

 for boys, is located here. Mineral springs near 

 by have given Saint Catharines considerable 

 fame. Population in 1911, 12,484; in 1916, esti- 

 mated, 15,000. 



SAINT CHARLES, Mo., the county seat of 

 Saint Charles County, an important manufac- 

 turing city situated about nineteen miles north- 

 west of Saint Louis, and on the Missouri River 

 about twelve miles from its entrance into the 

 Mississippi River. Transportation is provided 

 by the Wabash and the Missouri, Kansas & 

 Texas railroads, and an electric line extends to 

 Saint Louis. This locality is rich in agricul- 

 tural products, especially in wheat and corn. 

 Besides a car manufactory, which employs 

 about 1,800 men, and is one of the largest of its 

 kind in the United States, the city has large 

 shoe factories, engine works, grain elevators and 

 tobacco factories. The Federal building, county 

 courthouse, erected in 1902 at a cost of $150,-: 

 000, and Saint Joseph's Hospital are prominent 

 buildings. In addition to the public and pri- 

 vate schools, there are Lindenwood College, for 

 women, Sacred Heart* Aca<lnny. Saint Charles 

 Military College and a public library. The first 

 settlement was made in 1765; it was incor- 

 porated in 1795 and was chartered as a city in 

 1805. The inhabitants are chiefly Americans 

 and Germans; the population increased from 

 9,437 in 1910 to 10,350 (Federal estimate) in 

 1916. .1 i! \\ 



SAINT CHRISTOPHER, kru'tohfcr. or 

 SAINT KITTS, kit*, one of the Leeward Is- 

 lands, in the British West Indies. It is of vol- 

 canic formation, covering an area of sixty-live 

 square mil. >. with a mountain range in the 

 center culminating in tin \ -ak of the extinct 

 volcano Mount Misery, 4,000 feet above the 

 sea. The climate is healthful, the soil frrl.le. 

 sugar, rum, coffee and cotton being the chief 

 products. The capital is Basse Tcrre, a seaport 



an open roadstead. Saint Christ oj 

 with Nevis and Anguilla, adjacent islands, 



