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ough and partly in Storrington, and is the largest of the 
Rideau Canal feeders. 
As, originally, Cranberry Lake—then known as Cran- 
berry Marsh—appears to have had a connection with White- 
fish Lake, the waters of this system may, in times of flood, 
have been also tributary to the Gananoque River and have 
reached the St. Lawrence at Gananoque as well as Lake 
Ontario at Kingston. 
The duplication of names should be avoided by the Goy- 
ernment renaming some of these lakes, the scanty popula- 
lation and small interests presently involved, readily 
admitting of this being done. Other defects in nomenela- 
ture also need pressing attention. 
EARLY HISTORY OF THE CANAL. 
At the close of the war between France and Great Britain 
which resulted in French Canada becoming a British Crown 
Colony, the Ottawa valley had a few settlements as far up 
the river as Carillon on the north side, but the south side 
was still an almost unbroken wilderness. In 1783, the 
British Government, in pursuance of its policy of settling 
the United Empire Loyalists from the United States, and 
the disbanded soldiers, upon free grant lands in Canada, sent 
Lieutenants French and Jones to explore the country, on 
either side of the River Ottawa. Lieutenant French pro- 
ceeded up the river as far as the Rideau Falls and then 
diverging inland, followed the Rideau River to the Rideau 
Lakes. Coursing his way through the net-work of lakes 
met with beyond this, he at length reached the Gananoque 
River, down which he went to the St. Lawrence. Lieu. 
tenant Jones pushed through the country bordering the 
River Ottawa, along its northern banks, until he reached the 
Chaudiere Falls, where he crossed to the other side and re- 
turned to Montreal by the south bank. Both officers found 
a large amount of land available for settlement. No special 
official action appears, however, to have been taken, at the 
time, on these reports, and the course of settlement for 
