: England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster with Historical Notes by Fleming Sandford - Canada Description and travel

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Halifax--Cunard Line--Intercolonial Railway--Truro--Travelling by Pullman--New Brunswick--Miramichi--Great Fires in New Brunswick--Salmon Fishing--Micmac Indians--Rimouski--S.S. Parisian--The first Ocean Steamer the Royal William--Incidents of Ocean Voyage--Arrival. Page 11

Willie Gordon--Custom House Annoyances--Cable Telegram--Post Office Annoyances--London--Spurgeon's Tabernacle--An Ancestral Home--English and United States Hotels--English Reserve--A Railway Accident--The Land's End--A Deaf Guest. Page 33

Marquis of Salisbury--Classical Studies--Henley Regatta--Red Lion--London Dinner to Lord Dufferin--His Speech--Greenwich-- Fisheries Exhibition--Bray--The Vicar--The Thames--Minehead-- The Polynesian. Page 58

The Ocean Voyage--Its Comfort--Moville--Mail Coach Road of Old Days--Impressive Service on Deck--Comfort on the Vessel-- Rimouski--Halifax. Page 84

Early Colonization--De Monts--Champlain--Sir William Alexander-- Capture of Quebec--The Treaties--The Acadian Evangeline-- Louisbourg--First Capture--Peace of Aix la Chapelle--Boundary Disputes--The Final Struggle--Deportation of the Acadians-- Nova Scotia constituted a Province. Page 102

Home in Halifax--Start for the Pacific--The Intercolonial Railway--Major Robinson--Old Companions--The Ashburton Blunder--Quebec--The Provincial Legislature--Champlain--The Iroquois. Page 119

Montreal--Ship Channel--Hon. John Young--St. Lawrence Canals-- Indifference of Quebec--Quebec Interests Sacrificed--Need of a Bridge at Quebec--Montreal Trade in Early Times--Beauty of the City--Canadian Pacific Railway--Ottawa--The Social Influence of Government House--Kingston. Page 131

Toronto--Collingwood--Georgian Bay--The Sault St. Mary-- Navigation of the Great Lakes--Manitoulin Islands--Lake Huron-- Arrival at the Sault. Page 147

Lake Superior--Early Discoverers--Joliet and La Salle-- Hennepin--Du Luth--Port Arthur--The Far West--The North-West Company--Rat Portage--Gold Mining--Winnipeg. Page 161

Early Explorers of the North-West--Du Luth--De la Verendrye-- Mackenzie--Hudson's Bay Company--Treaty of Utrecht--North-West Company--Lord Selkirk--War in the North-West--Union of the Rival Companies--The North-West Annexed to Canada. Page 179

Winnipeg--Great Storm--Portage-la-Prairie--Brandon--Moose Jaw-- Old Wives' Lakes--The Indians--Maple Creek--Medicine Hat-- Rocky Mountains. Page 201

Start for the Mountains--The Cochrane Ranche--Gradual Ascent-- Mount Cascade--Anthracite Coal--Sunday in the Rockies-- Mountain Scenery--The Divide. Page 221

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