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dian Pacific railways. It has the Granby 

 Smelter, the largest copper smelter in the 

 British Empire, and also has iron works, saw- 

 mills, nurseries and other establishments. The 

 $60,000 Dominion building and the $40,000 

 provincial building are conspicuous structures. 

 Kettle Valley, besides minerals and timber, 

 is noted for its rich, loamy soil, and produces 

 fruits, vegetables and grains. Population, in 

 1911, 1,577; in 1916, about 2,000. 



GRAND FORKS, N. D., the second largest 

 city of the state, ranking next to Fargo, and 

 the county seat of Grand Forks County, sit- 

 uated on the eastern border of the state, at 

 the point where the waters of the Red Lake 

 River meet those of the Red River of .the 

 North. Fargo is eighty miles south, and Win- 

 nipeg, Man., is 163 miles north. The Great 

 Northern and the Northern Pacific railways 

 serve the city, and steamboats ply between 

 this point and Winnipeg. The population, 

 which increased from 12,478 in 1910 to 15,837 

 in 1916, is largely American, with Scandi- 

 navians predominating in the foreign element. 

 Grand Forks was settled in 1871 and incor- 

 porated in 1881. It received its name from 

 its location on the forks of the Red and Red 

 Lake rivers. The area of the city exceeds 

 three and one-half square miles. 



The Red River Valley, in which Grand Forks 

 is situated, is rich in timber and grain. It is 

 the natural distributing point for North Da- 

 kota and Montana, and it manufactures flour, 

 lumber, steam boilers, foundry products and 

 bricks, the annual output of its products 

 amounting to $3,251,075. The shops and divi- 

 sion headquarters of the Great Northern and 

 the Northern Pacific railways are here. The 

 trade in live stock, wheat, oats and potatoes 

 is extensive. Grand Forks is the seat of the 

 University of North Dakota, opened in 1884, 

 and of the Grand Forks College, Wesley Col- 

 lege and Saint Bernard's Academy. The city 

 has a $185,000 Federal building, a $225,000 

 courthouse and a Carnegie Library. C.W.G. 



GRAND ISLAND, NEB., a distributing point 

 of importance in its territory, and the county 

 seat of Hall County. It is situated southeast 

 of the geographical center of the state and on 

 the Platte River, eighty-five miles west of 

 Lincoln and 127 miles south' and west of 

 Omaha. The Union Pacific and Saint Joseph 

 & Grand Island railways and the Burlington 

 Route serve the city. Grand Island was set- 

 tled in 1857 and was incorporated in 1872. In 

 1910 'the population- was 10,326; it had in- 

 161 



creased to 12,826 in 1916, according to a 

 Federal estimate. 



Through its fine shipping facilities the city 

 has become the trade center for a large section 

 in the northwestern part of the state. It has 

 large wholesale houses and transacts an exten- 

 sive business in live stock, grain and manu- 

 factured articles. Beet sugar, candy, canned 

 goods, windmills, brooms and cement block 

 are the leading products. Some of the large 

 machine shops of the Union Pacific Railway 

 are located here. Grand Island has the state 

 soldiers' and sailors' home, Saint Francis Hos- 

 pital, Grand Island College (Baptist), opened 

 in 1892, and a Carnegie Library. 



GRAND JURY. See JURY AND TRIAL BY 

 JURY. 



GRAND' MERE, graN mair' , a town in Cham- 

 plain County, Quebec, on the right or west 

 bank of the Saint Maurice River, which emp- 

 ties into the Saint Lawrence at the town of 

 Three Rivers, twenty-one miles south of 

 Grand' Mere. Like the neighboring town of 

 Shawenegan Falls, Grand' Mere is a manufac- 

 turing center for pulp, paper, doors, sashes 

 and other products of the lumber which is 

 floated down the Saint Maurice. Shirts, boots 

 and - stoves are other manufactures. A high 

 school for boys and a Roman Catholic convent 

 are important institutions. Population in 1911. 

 4,783; in 1916 v about 6,000. 



GRAND-PRE, grahN pray' , a beautiful vil- 

 lage in Kings "County, Nova Scotia, on the 

 Basin of Minas, fifteen miles from Windsor. 

 The French settlers there were expelled in 

 1713, by order of the English, at the clow of 

 what is known as Queen Anne's War (see 

 FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS). It is of this inci- 

 dent that Longfellow tells in his Evangcline, 

 though not with historical accuracy. Grand- 

 Pre is immortalized in the following lines: 



This is the forest primeval ; but where are the 

 hearts that beneath It 



Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the wood- 

 land the voice of the huntsman ? 



Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of 

 Acadian farmers, 



Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water 

 the woodlands, 



Darkened by shadows of earth, hut reflecting an 

 image of heaven? 



Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers 

 forever departed ! 



Scattered like dust and leaves, when the mighty 

 blasts of October 



Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle 

 them far o'er the ocean. 



Naught nut tradition remains of the beautiful vil- 

 lage of Grand-Pre. 



