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runs from St. Catharines to Niagara l-'alK. N.Y.. and to iWt 

 Dalhousic on Lake Ontario, \\luiv steamboat connection U made 

 with Toronto. ^4 miles distant. An electric street railway extends 

 from St. Catharines tu the neighboring towns of ThomM and 

 Mcrritton. The cit\ is the seat of the Kishop Ridley College lot 

 boys. Its industries include paper, flour and planing mills. builders' 

 tries, metal works, threshing machines, agricultural tools, tan- 

 nery, knitting factory, wire, biscuits, fruit eanning establishments 

 and a cold storage warehouse for foods. St. Catharines is situ 

 in a rich fruit-growing and agricultural district, where there are \er\ 

 extensive grape vineyards. 



Chatham. 



The city of Chatham, Kent County, 180 miles from Toronto, is 

 situated at the head of navigation on the River Thames. I'op- 

 illation, 12,039. At its -ervice are the Grand Trunk and the 

 Canadian Pacific Railways, the Wabash, and the Pere Mar<|uette. 

 and tliere is an electric railway between Chatham, Wallacebnr- and 

 Lake Krie. The city has electric light and a first-class system of 

 waterworks, armouries, House of Refuge, fine schools, and a col- 

 legiate institute. Its industries are carriage factories, engine and 

 boiler works, builders' factories, flour mills, fanning mills, woollen 

 mills, malleable iron and steel specialties, machine shop, wagons, 

 gas engines, bricks and tiles, pad and textile works, fruit evaporator, 

 canning, and other industries. The city is in the midst of a fertile 

 agricultural district. And in the neighbourhood are good fishing 

 and shooting. 



Belleville. 



The city of Belleville, Hastings County, population 11.201, is 

 -ituated at the point where the Moira River flows into the Bay of 

 fjuinte and thence into Lake Ontario. It is on the main line of the 

 ('.rand Trunk Railway, the Canadian Northern Railway, and the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, and is about 113 miles east of Toronto 

 and 220 miles west of Montreal. It is a port of call for the I'.ay 

 of Quinte division of the Inland Lines. Limited, plying between To- 

 ronto, Montreal, and intermediate ports. Belleville has 40 indus- 

 tries and is the largest cement producing centre in Canada. Among 

 its industries are the following: lock works, flour mills, foundries 

 rolling mills, planing mills, shirt factories, mattress factory, woollen 

 mills, evaporator, canning factory, boat works, carriage work-. 

 paper mills, machine works, furniture factories, brewery, distillery. 

 vinegar works, stone quarries, marble and brick works, tannery, 

 cigar factories, tinware and lanterns. It is also an important market 



