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.eamship communication with leading lake ports Sault Ste. 

 Marie. Markiii.tr. etc. It has extensi\c d.irk accommodation, ami 

 the largest dry dock on the upper Canadian lakes, lis indn- 

 include the largest steel shipbuilding plain in Canada, nail and wire 

 factory, grain elevator, foundries and machine >hops. >a\v and plan- 

 ing mills, flour mill, meat packing and canning plant, fruit and 

 vegetable cannery, apple evaporator, tannery, biscuit factory, etc. 



The town owns the waterworks, electric light and hydro-electric 

 power, and it has a Collegiate Institute, an armoury and a go\ 

 ment fish hatchery. 



Cornwall. 



Cornwall the first important town west of Montreal and distant 

 from it 68 miles, is on the St. Lawrence River 5 miles east of the 

 Ix>ng Sault Rapids. Population, 6,479. The Grand Trunk, and 

 the ( Mtawa branch of the New York Central system give it railway 

 connections north, south, east and west. During navigation the 

 tourist steamers of the R. O. and N. Co. call daily. The Cornwall 

 canal supplies water-power for a number of important indus- 

 The town has large cotton mills, a foundry, saw, paper, woollen, 

 and flour mills, furniture, bedstead, clothing and builders' factories, 

 etc., an electric street railway and good schools. 



Other towns are Smith's Falls, Barrie, Orillia, Cobourg, Pem- 

 broke. \\ elland, Port Hope, Ingersoll, Midland, Goderich, Waterloo, 

 I laukesbury, Paris. . \rnprior, Petrolea, Preston, Carleton Place. 

 Simcoe, Penetanguishene, Gananoque. \Yallacehurg. \\alkerville, 

 St. Mary's, Picton, Perth, Newmarket, Campbellford, Dunnvillc, 

 Parry Sound, Walkerton, Rockland. Brampton, etc. 



The following are the cities and the more important towns: 



IN NORTHERN ONTARIO. 



I .., t William. 



The city of Fort William, 862 miles from Toronto, is situated 

 on the Kaministkjuia River, flowing into Thunder Bay, on the 

 western shore of Lake Superior. Dividing into three channel 



nouth the river has about 26 miles of water within the area of 

 the city limks and. with improvements, constitutes one of the finest 



