SAINT KITTS 



5155 



SAINT LAWRENCE 



tures leather, clothing, confectionery, harness 

 and saddles, boots and shoes. Saint Joseph is 

 a large wholesale center and handles grain, 

 fruits and other farm products from the sur- 

 rounding territory. 



Joseph Robidoux, a fur trader from Saint 

 Louis, established a trading post on the site of 

 Saint Joseph in 1826 and traded with Indian 

 trappers there. He named the settlement, which 

 was incorporated in 1845. It became a city in 



branch for the manufacture of Waterman's 

 fountain pens, but it is chiefly known as a resi- 

 dential suburb of Montreal. It has a Roman 

 Catholic and a Protestant academy, a convent 

 and several private schools. The town owns 

 its water and sewerage plants, and part of the 

 electric light and power system. From Saint 

 Lambert a magnificent view is obtained of 

 Mount Royal and Montreal. Saint Lambert 

 and the vicinity are usually spoken of as the 



SAINT LAWRKXCi: IMVKR AND GULF 



1851. The commission plan of government was 

 adopted in 1909. The electric-light plant is 

 owned by the municipality. II.D.K. 



SAINT KITTS, kit*. See SAINT CHRISTO- 



1'IIKH. 



SAINT LAM 'BERT, a town in Charably 

 County, Quebec, on the south bank of the Saint 

 Lawrence River opposite Montreal. The 

 ' this point is about a mile and three-quar- 

 wide, but by electric railway the distance 

 t<> t! of Montreal is about three miles. 



Saint Lambert is served by the Grand Trunk, 

 tin- Intercolonial, tin- Quebec, Montreal & 

 South Shore, the Montreal & Southern Coun- 

 ties, the Central Vermont and tin- Delaware 

 & Hudson railways. Tli* tmvn possesses about 

 two hundred factories, including the Canadian 



South Shore. Population in 1911, 3,344; in 

 1916, estimated, 4,500. J.K.H. 



SAINT LAWRENCE, Gi LF OF, a deep, circu- 

 lar inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. With tli 

 ception of the Gulf of Mexico it is the largest 

 gulf on the North American cm>t. This im- 

 portant body of water is partly enclosed by 

 . foundland on the east and Nova Scotia 

 and New Brunswick on the south, and it washes 

 the eastern shores of Quebec (sec map, facing 

 page 1096) . As the outlet of the Saint Lawrence 

 Rmr and the Great Lakes, the chief highways 

 of trade of Eastern Canada and Northern United 

 States, its commercial importance can score. I \ 

 be overestimated. It is the gateway to the 

 t transatlantic trade of Cuna.la and af- 

 fords the shortest route to Liverpool. By th 



