The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-09
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tain their ancient customs. These COM
pacts are much resorted to in summer
by city people. In each the gilded
dome church and educational or char
liable institutions of the Roman Cath
Ole faith are the most conspicuous
buildings.
CITY OF THREE RIVERS.
Near Louizeville, opposite Lake st.
Peter, are the st. Leon (saline) springs
a popular watering place and health
resort. Lake st. Peter is simply the
broadening out of the st. Lawrence
river to a width of nine miles for
length of twenty-five miles. Fifteen
miles below, the great st. Maurice
river, which rises 800 miles north, enters
the st. Lawrence by three mouths, on
which stands the Cathedral City of
"Three Rivers" the third city of i'm
portance in the province. 1t was found
ed in 1918 and is one of the largest
'sealed towns in Canada. 1t played
an important part in Canada's early
history. Three Rivers is the see" of a
Roman Catholic bishop, whose cathe-
dral is an imposing structure. 1t is nine
tymiles from or about midway between
Montreal and Quebec; lies at the head
has population of 10000.
The city is we'll laid out and is a
typical French-Canadian town, with
numerous churches, converts, and ed
ucational institutions. It's chief in
dustry is the shipment of lumber
which comes down the st. Maurice
river, through a region only visited by
the axeman, a few Indians, and trap
pers, and Hudsons Bay traders. over
$lOOO,0O0 is invested here in mills,
booms, etc, where logs are accumu-
lated. Around the city lie vast de-
POSTS OF log-iron ore. Here are large
iron works, machine shops, and car
Wheel shops, where car-wheels are
made in large numbers from this native
ore. smelling ore began in this city as
early as 1877. Three Rivers will well
repay an extended visit.
Within easy reach the mountain
brooks swarm with trout for the fish
erman. At Piles Junction a branch
line extends to the farming district of
Grand Piles and to the great Sha-
wanegan Falls on the St. Maurice
river. A Portneuf is a thriving fac
tory town devoted principally to shoe
making and wood-pulp. The dozen
villages between Three Rivers and
Lorette are quaint and picturesque
In the highest degree and the French
language is almost universally spoken.
powerful rivers come down from the
NILS at frequent intervals along, Civ
ing ample Water-power to almost every
village.
HURON INDIANS.
About seven miles from Quebec is
the christianiZed Indian village of Lor-
ette, where dwell the lest remnants of
the Huron tribe. They number now
about sixty families-336 souls all told (:
143 males and 1913 females. This pow-
erful tribe once comprised over 80 900
souls. Lorette is a place of interest
to all curious travellers. There are
scarcely any among the so-called Ind
ians of pure Indian blood They have
intermarried largely with their French
neighbors, but the Indian features and
habits still predominate. This reser-
walton is governed by the customs of
two centuries ago, no white man being
allowed, until recently, to settle with
In the sacred precincts of the Huron
reserve.
They are quiet and religious peo-
pie, all these Indians; they worship in
their own (Catholic) church, a quaint
building two centuries old; and in the
intervals the men hunt and fish, while
the women make beadwork and moe
casins, and the boys earn pennies by
dexterous archery.
After leaving Lorette In three miles