CHAPTER VII 



"Westward Ho" — Orangevillc — Owen Sound — Through 

 the Great Lakes — Associations of Lake Huron — Breboeuf's 

 mission to the Indians — Feast of the dead — The wigwam 

 life — Indian superstitions — Folklore — Diabolical tortures — 

 Honour — Indian creeds — Loyola and his followers — Heroism 

 of the Jesuits — Painted devils — Joques — Massacre of Brdbceuf 

 and Lalemant — Failure of Jesuit mission — The passing of the 

 Iroquois — Lake Superior — Picturesque rapids — The largest lock 

 in the world — Sault Ste. Marie — Lake trout — Fishing resorts — 

 An inland sea — The Rideau River — Nipigon and its trout — 

 Patrol stations — Traffic on Lake Superior — Thunder Bay — Port 

 Arthur and Fort William — Change of the clock — En route for 

 Winnipeg — The opening page of the book of the prairies. 



EVERY tourist to the Dominion aspires to 

 visit the Far West. It is the New Canada, 

 magnificent alike in grandeur and potentialities. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway offers alternate 

 routes. One is by rail all the way, which takes about 

 four and a half days ; the other by rail and lake, which 

 extends the journey to two additional days. In the 

 former case the route lies north of Georgian Bay, Lakes 

 Huron and Superior. In the latter the line terminates 

 at Owen Sound, and thence the journey is by steamer 

 through the Great Lakes to Fort William, where the 

 railway course is renewed. It was this route I 



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