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inodation of reading rooms, and excellent examples of these, in the form of 

 comfortable log houses, are to be found. 



WALLACE, McCoRMACK & SHEPPARD'S READING CAMP 



HALE & BELL'S CAMP 

 ONTARIO LUMBER Co.'s READING ROOM 



In addition to the newspapers which find their way into these reading 

 rooms, travelling libraries are received from the Department of Education 

 for Ontario, and from the library of McGill University, and the special stim- 

 ulus which is thus given will be greatly enhanced in the near future under 

 arrangements now in process of completion, whereby the series of illus- 

 trated lectures delivered before this audience, will find their way into every 

 camp. 



PORTABLE READING CAMP 



The Lake Superior Power Company, and the Algoma Commercial 

 Company, are now providing a more comfortable and portable 

 type of reading room of the character shown in the plans, and 

 these will, no doubt, replace the old style of log house in many in- 

 stances. 



THE LAURENTIDE MILLS 



The Laurentide Mills were established in 1897. At that time 

 the town of Grand Mere was a mere village of only 400 people ; but 

 it has now attained to the dignity of a City, with a population of 

 5,500, all of whom are either directly or indirectly supported by the pulp 

 industry. In and around the mills, about 850 men are constantly employed, 

 and at times this number reaches a total of 1,000 ; while the lumber camps 

 represent a total of 2,000 men constantly engaged in the various operations 

 of the forest. There are, therefore, about 3,000 men dependent upon this 

 one establishment. 



The town, which at present has all the appearances of one which has but 

 recently been brought into existence, is a progressive one, and works now in 

 process of completion indicate that, at no distant date, it will present in its 

 broad and well-graded streets, in its substantial buildings, and in various 

 other ways, evidence of a prosperity which will. make it compare favorably 



