The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-02
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THE HERAID,s GUIDE BOOK
Hints To- Yankee Travellers In Canada-
What to Sea. How to See and
sisor What to Pay for 1t. s q.

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Df ea MONTREAL, Canada, June 20, is12
About the 9th OF July commences the annual In
nux into canada OF American visitors, continuing,
with the warm weather, until early In September.
purina these two months from sixty thousand to-
eighty thousand Americans visit the Dominion, ct.
trActed by various reasons The scenery is fine,
for one thing; the sea bathing on the Lower st.
Lawrence II excellent. for another: the manners
and customs Of the French habitants give one
fair idea Of France without crossing the Atlantic,
for third. Then, the trip is a comparatively fresh
and inexpensive ono. as compared with Niagara
or Saratoga although OF late hotel prices have I'D
vanoed to very fair imitation OF American water
ing place tariffs. Lastly and this is one OF the
least Of charms to
FASHIONABLE FEMALES, FASCINATED BY FRAUD,
or the opportunity OF perpetrating 1t on the gov
ernment Canada L. popularity believed to be nice
place wherein to purchase cheaply silks and aces,
which are afterwards to be smuggled into the
realms Of Uncle Sam, costing ever so much less than
they would II regularly imported or bought at q
store on Broadway. The publication OF Mr.. Howells
charming series Of sketches in the Atlantic MONTHLY
entitled "Their Wedding Journey" Is expected
largely to promote travel heIewards this year. Tho
nat has also gone forth in the fashionable papers
that the White Mountains and Canada are de
rtgueur. In view, therefore, OF the act that many
thousands OF the HERALD's readers will be on tha
war path during the next few weeks your CORE
spondent proposes to furnish them with few hints
as TO what Ia best worth seeing, and how 1t
may most easily and adyantageonsly be secn
THE UBIQUIToUs HERALD,
which devotes itself mpartialy to electing Presi-
dents, interviewing ''Swamp Angels,' rescuing
travellers In Africa, and smashing rings in Brook
lyn, can surely assume one more phase and develop
itself rs the only accurate guidebook to Canada
indeed the only one-snee the pseudo guide books
now existing are only aggregatons of Old news
paper cuts and paid puffs. The peninsula Of West
ern Canada demands no stay on the part OF the
sightsser. 1t Is fertile and closely settled but the
people ana the prospect are American. Travellers
from the West may either take the Grand Trunk
propelers nom Chicago or Milwaukee to Sarnia--a
pleasant trip-or the Michigan Central, or Southern
Railroad to Detroit, or run up to Buffalo.
.gafr8 ENTERING ONTARIO fkfl 8sr
BY way Of Detroit they have choice OF routes
crossing to Windsor and thence, wa Hamilton, ON
the Great Western Railroad, or, via Sarnia, the
Grand Trunk, q distance OF about two hundred and
thirty miles. Both lines are good and run palace
cars, my choice being the Grand Trunk, on which
baggage is examined and breakfast eaten at Sarnia
at a moro convenient hour OF the morning than at
night you arrive at Toronto early next afternoon.
Invalids will find famous mineral waters at Lons.tn
and st. Catherines Should the traveller enter the
Dominion by way OF Buffalo he Ray take train on
the Great Western road 70 Toronto or cross the
lake BY steamer In line weather the latter Is q
beautiful voyage. stay OF I'VE or six hours 4
~ assaaak t IN TORONTO ilt ~ -..t :
Is sufcient till the evening boat or train leaves
TIE new government house and the Univcrtit5
S sn are about the only sIgnts The Queens
being the most pat onized or Americans. Leaving
Toronto an the evening by Gland Trunk Railroad,
to Kingston. al out one hundred ana iIIty miles
down Lake Ontario. If one has Ieisu Q on his
proniabIy, examining the PcniicuiiarS~one Of sSe
finest In the c0untry-and tho Qualifications. now
ton and take passage by steamer through TO
Montreal. Early on the morning after leaving
Toronto the beautiIu scenery OF
THE THOUSAND ISLANDS
IL passed tn ough. 10 the course OF the day the
stenser (Which has now len the lsse = and IL RAJ y
which impede navigation b;tw,en Brockvtlle and
Montreal--last or al running the
LAOIgINB RAPIDS, a-h
by FIR the rrandest OF the series. The exciting
features which this voyage presents have OF IN been
boiling torrents Of waters lashed into white loam
which fall away all around like masks to disclose
bcniicrs of rantastc shape BY the waves, adown
which the steamer rides at liehtnns speed, threat
az or rn % wpys
terest which words are Inadequate to express.
the steamer arrives near sunset at
Mont Royal, the Royal CITY, the commercial metrop-
oils OF .anala Travellers from Boston or New
mont Cent al hallway, by White diver Junction,
burlington (rssex Junction.. and st. Adams, nom
the Hnb; by tue Hudson or the Harlem or Hudson
River Rail Dads and Lake cha plain, or BY the New
York and New Hav n nailiold, rom your city The
most fashionable hotels at Aiontreal American
RrCn In rin mn tho q 1ruuo hpue
s. to SO currency To do Montreal fai ~ one should
arrive arrive, On = saturday morning. The afternoon
Frcn Cathedral, so called, bee use II Is Only the
parish church, whica has, by the way, one OF the
From slie splre the view is grand in the extreme.
A glance at one OF the converts with little shop
R%as WIZ Which, Inc Indians Saa wso lee
comp ting, be asoot 20 and see II. In the evening
eSsr "a Suss o. msrKes Win Glance ct
ployment and enjoym mt
SUNDAY MoRS NC MAT BE SPENT
at ones own churcn-the Cathedral for Episc0pa-
Mems, st. Johns for High Churchuaen 81 Andrews
lor PrcsbyteFiAns, st. James Tor tae Meth0dsts or
the parish church the Cat oIics. In the at,r
noon ny all means rid 10 IN the mountain, dts
tance or about sew IN miles. pApsng at the turnpike
q enc AND y tie Il
= sse and stud6 q with .emefaid islands;'' vhiis
9Th IN ther awae st etches what Hei1e calls "a
lovely confusion,p OF Q, ampaign, bounded by the
mountains OF Vermont b sure you rsde Through
Sherbr0oke and 81 catherine streets on your re-
turn In tbs evening attend English service ct the
great
- CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE GEsU, $500
modelled alter that In Rome The next morning
tag pc devoted to stroll through the streets In
the vicinity OF the hotel ON every one OF which will
be found bull lings and blocks whose massiveness
4ud beauty Of architecture deserve mention. The
Montrealer never speculates. II he makes OF In
herits money II ali goes into land and buildings.
For the afternoon there Is the Inevitable Victoria
Bridge, Museums, pubiic Libraries educational nstl-
eutes and parks; Montreal In these II more poorly
1tted tnan an American city Of $1,000 inhabftlntA
II you have time to spare take the night train via