BROCKTON 



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BRODEUR 



Falls. On Queenston Heights, the site of the 

 battle, a magnificent monument has been 

 erected to honor his memory. 



TOWERING ABOVE QUEENSTON 

 HEIGHTS 



BROCK 'TON, MASS., famous as a shoe-manu- 

 facturing center, especially of men's high-grade 

 shoes, in which it leads the world. It is the 

 county seat of Ptymouth County, in the south- 

 eastern part of the state, twenty miles south 

 of Boston and twenty-nine miles north of 

 Fall River. The New York, New Haven & 

 Hartford Railroad serves the city, and there 

 is trolley connection with fifteen large sur- 

 rounding towns. In 1915 the population, which 

 is a mixture of Americans, Irish, English-Cana- 

 dians and Swedes, numbered 62,288, an in- 

 crease of 5,410 since 1914. Brockton was 

 settled in 1700, and was incorporated as the 

 town of North Bridgewater in 1821. Its pres- 

 ent name was adopted in 1874, and the charter 

 was granted in 1881. The area exceeds twenty- 

 one square miles. 



The city is the industrial center for all the 

 people living in the surrounding towns of East 

 and West Bridgewater, Avon, North Easton, 

 Randolph, Whitman and Holbrook. About 

 17,000 people are employed in the thirty-five 

 shoe factories of the city; the annual output 



amounts to $65,000,000. The manufacture of 

 shoe accessories is also extensive, and of rub- 

 ber goods, wooden and paper boxes, sewing 

 machines, pianos, automobiles, gloves, razors 

 and sporting goods the output is large. 



Brockton has a Federal building, a million 

 dollar city hall, three hospitals, a business col- 

 lege and a fine public library with an historical 

 room, lecture hall, art gallery and a library of 

 70,000 volumes. The city had 2,700 individual 

 home and school gardens in 1915, when it won 

 first prize for the best school garden in the 

 state. In 1916 it was awarded first prize for 

 the purest milk supply. E.C.J. 



BROCKVILLE, ONT., the county town of 

 Leeds County, an important railroad and man- 

 ufacturing center, on the northern bank of the 

 Saint Lawrence River, seventy miles south of 

 Ottawa and 126 miles southwest of Montreal. 

 It is on the Grand Trunk, the Canadian Pa- 

 cific and the Canadian Northern railways, and 

 is a port of call for Saint t Lawrence steamers. 

 The town was named in honor of Sir Isaac 

 Brock (see above), the hero of the Battle of 

 Queenstown Heights. Population in 1911, 

 9,374; in 1916, about 10,000. 



The industrial importance of the town is 

 due partly to its manufactures, of which the 

 most important are stoves, hardware, steam 

 engines, agricultural implements, hats and 

 gloves, carriages and automobiles. It is also 

 an important dairying center, and has a large 

 trade in butter and cheese. It is the head- 

 quarters of the Eastern Ontario Dairymen's 

 Association. Brockville is also a resort for 

 tourists and sportsmen, due to the proximity 

 of the Thousand Islands on the southwest and 

 of many small lakes, abundantly stocked with 

 black bass, salmon, trout, pike and pickerel, 

 from twenty to forty miles to the north and 

 west. Within the town itself are several beau- 

 tiful spots, of which Saint Lawrence Park, 

 covering fifty acres, is noteworthy. G.A.K. 



BRODEUR, brodur', Louis PHILIPPE (1862- 

 ), a Canadian statesman and jurist, since 

 1911 a judge of the Supreme Court of the Do- 

 minion. He was born at Beloeil, Que., and 

 was educated at Saint Hyacinthe College and 

 Laval University. He was admitted to the bar 

 in 1884 and from 1891 to 1911 sat in the House 

 of Commons. In 1900 he was chosen Speaker 

 of the House, but resigned in 1904 to become 

 Minister of Inland Revenue; in 1907 he be- 

 came Minister of Marine and Fisheries. With 

 W. S. Fielding he negotiated the first treaty 

 ever put into effect by a British colony the 



