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AARON'S COVE, a settlement in the dist. of express offices and is noted for its extensive Fortiinp Bay, Nfld. Pop. (1901). 13. fru.t orchards and maple sugar. Pop. 260. AASKANA (ANTLERS), a village in Prince ABBOTSFORiD, a post office and station in Albeit CO., Province of Saskat^chewan, between New Westminster dist., B.C., on Mission branch the N. & S. Saskatchewan rivers, 5 miles from of the C.P.R. It contains 2 churches (Anglican Clouston station (on the Prince Albert branch and Presbyterian), 2 stores, 1 hotel, 1 lumber of the C.P.R., 12 miles from Prince Albert). It mill and office of Dominion Express. Pop. 40. has a farming population; ground is high, ABBOTT LAKE. In Mackenzie dist., N.W.T., and Red Fyfe wheat succeeds perfectly, not lying to the east of Clinton-Golden Lake, and having been frosted since, at least, 1887. The north of Campbell and Artillery Lakes. neighborhood is among the best wheat-grow- ABBOTT MOUNT, in Glacier dist., B.C. ing sections of Saskatchewan, and the lower ABBOTT'S CORNERS, a post village in Mis- lands abound in lakes of good water and fine sisquoi co., Que., 7 miles from Abercorn, on pasturage, with soil adapted for mixed farm- the C.P.R., and 3 miles from Frelighsburg, on ing. Prince Albert is the nearest town. It the Central Vermont RR. It contains -2 has 2 churches (Episcopal and Methodist). churches (Baptist and Methodist), 1 general Pop., about 400. store, 1 shoe store, 1 blacksmith shop, besides ABAGUSQUASH ("SMALL WATER"), a river telephone office. Pop., under 75. of Temiscouata co.. Que., forms one of the head ABENAKIS, a post village in Dorchester co.. branches of the Tuladi. Que., 8 miles from St. Anselme, on the ABATAGOU&H, a bay on Lake Mistassinl, Central RR., 27 miles from Quebec, which is Mistassinl dist., Northern Quebec, between the the nearest banking town. It has a Roman height of land and Ungava dist., N.E.T., 290 Catholic church and several mills. Pop., in- miles from Lake St. John, 553^ miles north of cluding Ste. Claire parish (1901), 1,758. Montreal. On it is a Hudson Bay Company's ABENAKIS MISSION. See PIBRREVILLE, trading ix)st. Yamaska co.. Que. ABATAMAGOMAW, a lake of North Western ABENAKIS SPRINGS, a summer resort in the Quebec, near the height of land dividing the parish of St. Francois du Lac, Yamaska co.. waters of the St. Lawrence from those of Que., on the St. Francis River, and IJ miles Hudson Bay, 272 miles north of Montreal, 10 from the railway station at St. Francois du miles northwest of Lake Nikoubau. It Is about Lac, on the Quebec Southern Ry. It has a 12 miles long from north east to south west Roman Catholic church, 1 store, 1 hotel, 1 saw and 9 'miles wide from south east to north mill, 1 cheese factory, and telegraph office. west. It is crowded with low rocky islands, The mineral springs of the place are famous. on some of which, as well as on the mainland, Pop. 1,000. there is some large timber. Copper and iron ABERARDEiR, a post village in Lambton co.. ore are found on the margin of the lake, and Ont., on the G.T.R. (Sarnia branch), 5 miles limestone and building stones are abundant. from Forest station. It has a Presbyterian Lake Abatamagomaw has its outlet In the S. church, 1 store, with post and telephone offices, W. part by a stream which forms one of the a mechanics* institute and reading room. branches- of the Notaway River, which emp- Pop. 100. ties into James Bay. ABERCORN, a post village and port of entry ABAWSISQTJASH, a stream running N. W. in Brome co., Que., on the Missisquol River, into the River Trois Pistoles, in Temiscouata and on the C.P.R., 65 miles from Montreal. CO., Que. A good farming section of country. It has 2 ABBITIBBI, a lake in the district of Nipis- churches (Union and Episcopalian), 3 stores, 1 sing, Northern , in lat. 49° N., Ion. 78° hotel, saw and grist mills, 2 factories, telegraph 10' -W. Length 60 miles; breadth 20 miles. It and express offices. A mile from Vermont Is studded with numerous islands, and has boundary. Pop. 150. its outlet in Ahbitibbi River. There is a trad- ABERCROMBIE, a post village in Pictou co., ing post of the Hudson Bay Company on its N.S., on the East River, 4 miles from New S. E. shore. Glasgow Ry. station, Albion co. Halifax Coal ABBITIBBI, a river in the district of Nipis- Co. had a railway through the place in 1857 sing. Northern Ontario, takes Its rise in the or 1859, which was abandoned 15 years ago. high lands above Lake Temiscaming, about Indications of a coal seam have been dis- lat. 48° 10' N., Ion. 79° 30' W.. and after a covered. Pop. 150. course of 200 miles joins the Moose River, a ABERDEEN, a post settlement in Inverness large stream running into James Bay, at Moose CO., N.S., on MacPhadyen River, 5 miles from Factory. Alba, on the I.C.R. It contains Presbyterian ABBOTSFCRD, a post village In Rouville co.. church and a telephone office. Pop. 100. Que., at the foot of Yamaska mountain, and ABERDEEN, a post village in Humboldt on the C.P.R., 13 miles from St. Hyacinthe. dist., Prov. of Saskatchewan, and a station on It contains 3 churches (Episcopal, Roman the Can. Northern RR., near the South Sas- Catholic and Methodist), 3 stores, 1 hotel and katchewan River, between the stations of a telegraph oflSce, money order, telephone and Humboldt and North Battleford, and close to 17 (257) 258 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Osier, on the Prince Albert iDranch of the on the west side of Abram River, near Tusket, C.P.R., 18 miles north of Saskatoon. a station on the Halifax & Yarmouth RR., 10 ABERtDEiBN, a settlement in Skeena dist., miles north-east of Yarmouth. Pop. 200. B.C., near the mouth of the Skeena River, and AERAM'S VILLAGE, a post village in Prince opposite Port Essington (3 miles across). It is CO., P.E.I., 4 miles from Wellington station on reached ty steamer fortnig'htly from Victoria the P.E.I. Ry. It possesses a court house, 1 (distant 585 miles). store, 2 forges, grist, saw and shingle mills. ABERDEEN, a flag station on the Toronto, It has also a graded school. Pop. 350. Hamilton & Buffalo Ry. In Wentworth co., Ont., ABUPTIE RIVER, a river of Yarmouth co., 3 miles fro-m Hamilton. Ont. N.S., noted for Its alewives and for the very ABERDEEN, a post office in Grey co., Ont., delightful scenery which the neighborhood near Durham, a station on the G.T.R. affords. ABERDEEN CROSSING, a Station on the ACACIA, a post village in Norfolk co., Ont., Bruce IMines and Algoma Ry. on Little Otter River, 4 miles from Tillsonburg ABERDEEN LAXE, situate north of Doo- station, on the G.T.R. & iMich. Central RK. baunt Lake, and south of Lakes Pelly and It contains a Baptist church, grist mills and Garry, on the eastern flank of Mackenzie dl?t.. a cheese factory. Pop. 50. whero it borders on Keewatin dist. Lat. 648 ACACIAVILLE, a post oflace in Digby co., N., Ion. 100° W. N.S., and a station (Jordantown) on the Dom. ABERDOUR, a post settlement In Bruce co., Atlantic RR., 4 miles south-west of Digby. Ont., 3 of a mile from the Saugeen River, and ACADIA MINBS^ a mining village in Col- a station on the Wellington, Grey & Bruce chester CO., N.S., on the Cobequid moun- dlv. of the G.T.R. called Turners. It contains tains. The Cobequid mountains are noted for 1 church and 1 store. Pop. 100. their rich deposits of iron ore. The village ABERFELDY, a station on the Can. Northern contains blast furnace and cast pipe foundry, RR., in the Prov. of Saskatchewan, between etc. Tlie Merchants Bank of Halifax has an Battle River and the North Saskatchewan, 6 agency here. It has 5 churches (Episcopalian, miles from Lloydmlnster and 46 miles east of Roman Catholic, Baptist and Presbyterian), Vermillion. masonic hall, temperance hall and some good ABERFELDY, a post Tillage In Lambton co., buildings, 10 stores, 1 hotel; also a telegraph Ont., on the Sydenham River, 7 miles from and express office. Several good lakes within Alvinston Station, on the G.T.R. & tMich. Cen- 3 to 7 miles, where good trout fishing can be tral RR. It possesses 2 churches (English and had. Pop. 1,074. Methodist), 1 store, saw and grist mills, brick- ACADIE, a post village In the county of making and tile factory and a blacksmith shop. Kent, N.B., on the Kouchibouguac River, 6i

Pop. 70. miles from Acadie Siding, on the I.C.R. , and ABERFOYLE, a post vUlage In Wellington 01 miles from , on the Kent Nor. & CO., Ont., and capital of Puslinch Township, St. Louis RR. It has a Roman Catholic church, on Mill Creek, 4 miles from Schaw, on the 2 board and 2 shingle mills, 4 schools and 2 C.P.R. It contains 1 Methodist church, 3 stores, stores. It is in the midst of a good farming 1 hotel, 1 flour mill and telegraph and tele- and lumbering district. Pop. of the parish phone office. Pop. 150. (1901), 1,256. ABERNETHY, a post settlement in the dis- ACADIE SIDING, a post office in Kent co., trict of Qu'Aprpelle, Prov. of Saskatchewan, N.B., and a station on the I.C.R. and a station on the Pheasant Hills branch of ACAMAC, a station in St. John

Oromocto Lakes are fine sheets of water which ADDERLY, a post settlement in Megantic co.. afford excellent opportunities for sport and is Que., on the Zakel Brook, 10 miles from the also a beautiful summer resort for tourists. G.T.R. Station of St. Julie. It contains 2 Pop. 200. churches (Episcopalian and Presbyterian), X ACTON'S CORNERS, a post settlement In combination mill of grist, saw and shingle, Grenville co., Ont., situated 2 miles from Ri- telegraph and express offices at St. Julie. Ad- deau River, on C.P.R., 1 mile distant from jacent lakes are: Joseph, William, Trout and nearest railway station of Oxford 'Mills. It Black. Pop., about 50. contains 2 churches (Anglican and Methodist), ,ADDIE LAKE, a station on the Can. Northern telegraph and express offices. RR. (iDuluth section), in Thunder Bay dist., AC^ON VALE, an incorporated town In Bagot Ont., 60 miles south of Fort William, on Lake CO., Que., a junction of the Grand Trunk and Superior. Can. Pacific Railways. The station is known ADDINGHAM, a post settlement in Mac- as Acton Station. It contains Roman Catholic donald co., Man., south west of Lake Mani- and Anglican churches, a convent, 11 stores, 4 toba, 14 miles from the C.P.R. station at West- hotels, 2 mills, 3 factories, 1 bank (Eastern bourne, 17 miles north west of Portage la Townships), and telegraph and express of&ces. Prairie. It has 1 general siore, besides ex- Pop. 1,175. press and telegraph office at Westboume. ACTON WEST, an Incorporated village in Pop. 150. Halton CO., Ont., on the Gr'and Trunk Ry. ADDINGTON, a county in the S. E. part of (main line to Sarnia) 35 miles from Toronto. Ontario, bordering on Lake Ontario; has an It contains 5 churches (Roman Catholic, Pres- area of 1,370,558 acres. It is drained by the byterian, Methodist, Baptist and Disciples of Napanee River and other streams, and con- Christ), 15 stores, 3 hotels, 1 flour and grist tains several small lakes, the principal of mill, 1 glove factory, 3 tanneries, 1 planing, which is Beaver Lake, being an outlet to the mill, a branch of the Merchants' Bank of Can- Salmon River. The chief staples are lumber, ada, telegraph and express offices and a print- wool and the products of the dairy. The ing oface issuing a weekly newspaper., Pop. country is traversed by ihe Grand Trunk,

1,484. C.P.R. , Bay of Quinte, and Kingston & Pem- ADAIR, a post ofQce In Qu'Appelle dist., broke Railroads. Chief town, Napanee. Pop. Prov. of Saskatchewan. The nearest railway of the county, 24,490. station (2 miles north-west) is Wolseley on the ADDINGTON, a post settlement in Resti- C.P.R., 19 miles east of Indian Head. gouche CO., N.B., 3 miles from Campbellton, a ADAMS, Pontiac co.. Que. See Allumette Is- station on the I.C.R. land. ADDINGTON FORKS, a post village in Anti- ADAM'S COVE, a settlement In the dist. of gonish CO., N.S.., on the West River, 4 miles Bay-de-Verde, Nfld., 12 miles from Carbonear from James River station, on the I.C.R. It on the Reid-Newfoundland Ry. Pop. (1901), 459. contains 1 church, 1 store, 1 glebe house, and ADAMS LAKE, a large lake In the Llllooet Is in telephonic communication with the town dist , B.C., in latitude 51' N., long 1208 W. of Antigonis'h, 8 miles distant, and also with From it issues the waters of the river of the Lcchaber Lake and Sherbrooke in co. of Guys- same name. Its area is 33,280 acres. boro, N.S., 12 miles distant?. ADAM'S MILLS, Grenville co., Oat. See ADDISON, a post village in Leeds co., Ont., Ventnor. in township of New Dublin, 7 miles from ADAMSVILLE, a post settlement in Kent co., Bellamy's, 12 miles from Brockville, and 2i N.B., on the I.C.R., 31 miles north of Monc- miles from nearest C.P.R. station of Bellamy's. ton, and 42 miles south of Chatham Jet. The It contains 1 Episcopal church, 1 Methodist Beersville RR. connects here with the I.C.R. church, 1 store and 1 mill, 1 cheese and but- and gives rail communication with the Im- ter factory. Pop. 250. perial and the Canadian Co.'s coal mines at ADELAIDE, a post village In Middlesex co., Mount Carlisle. The village has 1 chapel, 2 Ont., 7 miles from Strathroy, on G.T.R., and schools, and 2 general stores. Pop. 300. on Big Creek. It contains 2 churches (Roman ADAMSVILLE, a post village in Brome CO., Catholic and Anglican), 1 store, 1 hotel and 1 Que., on the Yamaska River, on the line of saw mill. Pop. 150. the C.P.R., 3 of a mile from the Adamsville ADELAIDE, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C., on Station. It contains 2 churches (Roman Cath- the main road between Vancouver and West- olic and Episcopal), 3 stores, 1 cheese factory, minster, and a station IJ miles distant, on the 1 carriage factory, 2 telegraph offices, 1 express C.P.R. It has street car connection with all offiice and 1 town hall. Pop. 250. railroad depots and steamship wharves in the ADAMSVILLE, a post village In Bruce co., city of Vancouver. It has six stores, and 1 Ont., 8 miles from Wiarton, the nearest rail- hotel (Junction Inn). Pop., about 1,000. way and banking point, on the Owen Sound ADELAIDE PENINSULA, which abuts into dlv. of the G.T.R., 10 mUes north of Park Simpson Strait, in the Arctic Seas, in the nor- Head Jet., 97 miles north ol Stratford. Pop. thern section of Keewatin dist. 200. ADELPHA, a station on the Canadian North- ADARE, a village in Middlesex co., Ont., on ern RR. (Wakopa section) in Lisgar co., Man., Riviere aux Saublas. in township of Biddulph, 52 miles south west of Greenway and 18 miles 3 miles from Centralia on the London & Wing- west of Enterprise. ham branch of the G.T.R. It contains 8 ADELPHI, a settlement in Cariboo co., B.C. churches (1 Roman Catholic, 2 Presbyterian', Ducks is nearest Ry. station on the C.P.R. 3 Methodist, 2 Anglican), 10 stores, 3 hotels, 3 ADIRONDACK JUNCTION, a station in La- mill3 (flour and saw), 1 stone heading factory, prairie CO., Que., on the Montreal & Boston 1 'bank, telegraph and express offices. Bell division of the C.P.R., 9 miles from Montreal, Tel. has 22 miles of line in township. Pop. near the Indian village of Caughnawaga. 2.200. ADMASTON, a post village in Renfrew co.. ,

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Ont., and a station (2 miles north) on the with P.O. Savings Bank, 3 churches (Roman Parry Sound & Ottawa branch of the G.T.R., Catholic. Anglican and Presbyterian), 3 stores, 7J miles west of Renfrew. It contains 1 Pres- and 2 hotels. Stages connect with all the byterian church, 1 woollen and 2 cheese fac- trains for Harrison Hot Water Springs. The tories, 1 hotel and 4 stores, and at station Dominion Government has an experimental telegraph and express offices. Pop., under 100. farm here of 300 acres. Pop., about 300. AJDMIRAL BAY or ADMIRALTY INLET, an AGAWA, a river running Into the east shore Inlet on the shores of , east of Lake Superior, in Algoma dist., Ont. Good of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, well stocked trout fishing. with fish. AGINCOURT, a village in York co.. Ont., at ADMIRAL ROCK, a post village in Hants co., the junction of the Midland div. of the G.T.R. miles north N.S., on the Shubenacadie River, 5 and the Ontario div. of the C.P.R. , 14 miles of the Shubenacadie Station, on the I.C.R., 22 from Toronto. It contains a telegraph office, 1 miles south west of Truro. It contains 1 Pres- express office, 1 Presbyterian church, 1 saw byerian church and 2 stores. Pop. 60. and planing mill, 1 brick factory and 1 store. ADMIRAL'S BEACH, a settlement In the dist. Pop. 150. of Placentia and St. Mary's, Nfld. Pop. (1901), AGNES and MEGANTIC. two adjacent vil- 35. lages in Lake Megantic co. (formed from a ADMIRAL'S COVE, a settlement In the dlst. part of Beauce co. and a part of Compton co.), of Ferryland. Nfld. Pop. (1901), 156. on the Chaudiere River, and stations on the ADOLPHE, a post village in Middlesex co., C.P.R. and the Que. Central RR's, 47 miles Ont., on the River Thames, | mile from Ekfrid east of Cookshire. They have jointly 5 Station, on the G.T.R., 5 miles from Glencoe. churches (Roman Catholic, Episcopal and It contains 2 churches (B>aptist and Metho- Presbyterian), 20 stores, 6 hotels, 1 wood pulp dist), 4 stores. 2 hotels, grist and saw mills, and 1 saw mill. 2 furniture manufactories (1 1 hoop and stave factory, 1 wagon factory, and door and sash and 1 iron bed factory). 2 banks 1 printing oflSce, besides telegraph, and express (Eastern Townships and Bank of Montreal), offices. Pop., about 200. besides express, telegraph and telephone AjDOLPHUSTOWN. a post village In Lennox offices. Pop. (of the two villages), about 3.000. CO., Ont., on the Bay of Quinte, 8 miles from AGNES, a post village in Beauce co.. Que., Picton, on the Central Ontario Ry. It con- Is situate on the River Chaudiere, south east tains 2 churches (Anglican and Methodist), 2 from Lake Megantic, on the C.P.R. It contains stores, 1 hotel, and 1 cheese factory. A steam 1 hotel, 2 stores, 2 cburohes 'Methodist and An- ferry plies between this plnce and Prince glican). (See above). Pop. 503. Edward co.. on the opposite shore of the Bay, AGNEW, a station on the Can. Northern RR. in summer. Pop. 100. (Hartney and Virden section), in Brandon co., ADSTOCK, a post village and parish in Man., 23 miles north west of Hartney, and 14 Beauce co.. Que. The nearest station on the miles south of Virden. Quebec Central RR. (Megantic div.) is St. AGRICOLA, a nost settlement In the district Ephrem, 17 miles south of Tring Jet., 55 miles of Edmonton, Alberta Province, 20 miles from south of Levis. It has 1 R. C. church and Strathcona, on the Calgary . and Edmonton several stores and post office. Pop. of parish branch C.P.R. It contains two churches (Epis- (1901), 988. copal and Presbyterian). The district Is an ADVOCATE HARBOUR, a post village in excellent wheat-bearing one, and it is expect- Cumberland co., N.S., 30 miles from Parrsboro, ed next year that a station of the new Can- on the Cumberland Ry. It contains 3 churches adian Northern Ry. will be located here. Pop. (Baptist, Free Baptist and Methodist), 7 stores 600. and 3 hotels. Pop. 1,000. AGUANISH, a post office In Chicoutiml and .2ETNA, a post village In the Province of Saguenay counties. Que. It is near Esquimaux Alberta (southern section), 3 miles from St. Point, reached in the season by steamers, Mary's River, and 7 miles from Cardston. a every 10 days, of the Que. and North Shore station on the Alberta Coal & Irrigation Go's. S.S. Line. RR., south west of Spring Coulee. It has 1 AGWANUS, or GOYNISH, a river running Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Into the N. shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Saints, 1 hotel and 1 cheese factory. There east of the Mingan Islands. Is good grazing land in the region and some AHMIC. a lake on the Magnetawan River, timber. Pop., about 270. In the district of Parry Sound, Ont. It is of AFTON, a post village In Antlgonish co.. very Irregular form, and indented by several N.S., is situated on Little River, and is | of bays. Its shores are covered with red and a mile distant from Bayfield Road Station, on white pine, varied with hard wood. I.C.R. It is 2 miles from Port of Bayfield, AHMIC HARBOR, a post settlement In Parry and contains 1 Methodist church, 1 store, saw Sound dist., Ont., on Ahmic Lake, 25 miles and grist mills, telegraph and express offices. from Burk's Falls, a station on the G.T.R. It Pop., about 150. contains 1 Methodist church, 1 Sal. Army Bar- AFTO'N ROAD, a post settlement in Queens racks, 2 stores. 1 hotel, 3 lumber mills and CO., P.E.I., 2 miles from Scotch Fort, a station a telegraph office. Has telephone connection on the P.E.I. Ry. with Dunchurch 4 miles west, and steamboat AFTON STATION, a post office in Tracadle to Burk's Falls. Pop. 200. dlst., Antlgonish co., N.S... on the I.C.R., 16 AHMIC LAKE, a post settlement In Parry miles east of Antlgonish. It Is a farming set- Bound dist., Ont., situated 18 miles distant tlement containing a school. from nearest railway station of BurV's Falls. AGASSIZ, a post settlement and station on It is 15 mile® from Magnetawan, 8 miles froon the Eraser River, in Vale dlst.. B.C.. and on enence, and 27 miles from Parry Sound. Pop. thfj C.P.R. main line, 70 miles from Vancouver 50. It has telegraph, express and post offices. AHOUSSAT, or AHOUSET, a post settlement LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 261 on Vancouver Island, B.C., 135 miles from AITIKAMEG LAKE, a sheet of water in the Victoria, reached 4 times a month by C.P.K. Prov. of Saskatchewan; area, 57,500 acres. steamers from Victoria, on the coast service AITKEN'S FERRY, a small post settlement, ior Cape Scott and intermediate ports. It has beautifully situated on the Montague River, 6 stores. Pop. 260. Kings CO., P.E.I., 1 mile from Georgetown rail- APHMOOJEBNfi-GAMOOK, a small lake in an way station. It contains 2 churches (Metho- extensive swamp near the frontier, in the dist and Presbyterian), 2 stores and 1 grist township of Metgermette, co. of Dorchester, and saw mill combined. A boat running from Que. It is the source of the great Kiver St. Montague H^ead, 4 miles higher up the river, John whioh empties into the Bay of Fundy at and calling here, makes connection with Pic- St. John, N.B. tou, N.S.., Charlottetown and different other AHU^ITSIC, a post village in Laval co.. Que., ports. Pop. 150. on the River des Prairies, 1^ miles from Bor- AITKINS, a post settlement in Colchester co., deaux, a station on the C.P.K. It contains 2 N.S., 2J miles from Londonderry, a station on hotels. It is in direct communication with the I.C.R. Montreal by means of the Park & Island Elec- AITKINS LAKE, a lake in Leeds co., Ont. tric Ry. (Back River route) and is the sum- AKERLEY, a post settlement in Queens co., mer residence of many Montrealers. The N.B., 11 miles from Cody's, a station on tho Mother House of the Ladies of the Sacred Coal and Ry. Co's. Ry. Heart is located here. Pop. 1,000. ALAIN, a post settlement in Bonaventure AlKENSIBE, a post village in Brandon co.. CO., Que., with port on Chaleurs Bay, 3 miles Man., 16 miles north east of Brandon, 8 miles from Carleton Station, on the Atlantic & Lake from Forrest Station, on the Miniota branch Superior (Baie • des Chaleurs) RR. It has 1 of the C.P.Ry. It has 2 stores and 1 Methodist Roman Catholic church, 10 stores, 4 hotels, 1 church. Pop., under 50. saw and lumber mill, 1 convent, 5 blacksmith AIKINS, a station in the Pfov. of Saskat- shops, 1 lobster canning factory, besides ex- chewan, on the C.P.R., 6 miles east of Swift press and telegraph offices. Pop., about 1,000. Current. ALAINDALE, a post office in Lotbiniere co.. AILSA CRAIG, is an incorporated village in Que., near Be Lotbiniere Station, on the I.C.R., Middlesex co., Ont.. on the G.T.R., 24 miles 40 miles west of Levis. west of London. It is situate on Aux Sables ALAMEDA, a post village In Prov. of Sas- River. It contains 4 churches (Anglican, Bap- katchewan, and a station on the Estavan sec- tist, Methodist and Presbyterian), 17 stores, 2 tion of the C.P.R., 71 miles west of Napinka, hotels, 3 mills (saw, grist and flax), 2 carriage and 35 miles east of Estevan. It contains X factories, 1 branch of Standard Bank of Can- Presbyterian church, 9 stores, 2 hotels, S ada, 1 printing office, issuing a weekly paper, grain elevators (storage capacity 150,000 bush- "Banner," besides telegraph and express offices. els), 1 bank, 1 printing office, telegraph and ex- Pop. 744. press offices. Is a growing place and a good AINSLIE GLEN, a post of&ce in Inverness farming district. Pop. 360. CO., N.S. (Cape Breton Island). The nearest ALAMO, a post office in Yale and Cariboo stations are Alba, on the I.C.R. (5 miles east of dist., B.C., and a station (Alamo Concentrator) Orangedale) and Mabou, on the Inverness and on the Nakusp and Slocan section of the C.P.R., Richmond RR., east of Port Hood. 6 miles from Sandon, and 35 miles from Nakusp. AINSLIE LAKE, a small lake in Inverness ALBA, a post settlement in Renfrew co., CO., N.S. Ont., on the Ottawa River and a station AINSWORTH, a post village in Yale co., B.C., (named Government Road) on the C.P.R., 5 In Lake Kootenay, 52 miles from Nelson Sta- miles south-east of Pembroke. It contains 1 tion, on the C.P.R. and Nelson and Fort Shep- Methodist church, 1 store, and 1 cheese fac- pard lines. It contains 1 Methodist church, sev- tory. Pop. 50. eral stores, and hotels. Pop., about 300. ALBA, a settlement in Inverness oo. (Cape AIRD, a post village in Missisquoi co.. Que., Breton Island), N.S.. and a station on I.C.R., on Missisquoi Bay, 4 miles from Clarenceville, 5 miles northeast of Orangedale. It is situate on the Que. Southern RR. It has 1 general on Lake Bras d'Or. It contains 1 Presby- farm- store. Pop. 60. terian church, 1 store, 1 hotel, and is a AIRDRIE, a post village In the district of ing district. Pop. 100. Calgary, Province of Aberta, on the C.P.R. ALBANEL, a post office and township in (Calgary and Edmonton branch), 21 miles north Chicoutimi and Saguenay co.. Que., in the of Calgary. It contains 1 Methodist church beautiful valley of the Tikouabi, a tributary and 3 stores. Pop. 50. of Lake St. John, so named in memory of the AIRLIE, a post office in Slmooe co., Ont., 2 zealous missionary who was the first Euro- miles from Lisle, on the Beeton & CoUingwood pean to journey by this route to Lake Mls- branch of the G.T.R., 17 miles north west of tasslni, and thence to Hudson Bay, in 1672. Beeton. It has 1 hotel and several stores. It is bounded N. by Lake Mistassini. It has a Pop., about 100. chapel and a saw mill. Roberval, on the AIR LINE JUNCTION, a post office and Quebec & Lake St. John RR., is its nearest G.T.R. station in Welland co., Ont. (known as station (40 miles). Pop. (1901), 335. co., Welland Jet.) near the Welland canal, and 3 ALBANY, a post settlement in Queens sec- miles from the town of Welland. The Jet. is P.B.L, on the P.E.I. Ry. (Cape Traverse on the Buflalo, Fort Erie & Welland Canal tion). Pop., about 175. section, as well as on the Port Dalhousie, ALBANY, a river of Northern Ontario, which Merritton and Port (3olborne section. Pop. 100. forms the boundary between that province and AISHIHIK LAKE, a body of water in Yukon the district of Keewatin. It takes its rise in dist., north west of White Horse, the northern Lake St. Joseph, lat. 51° N., Ion. 90° 21 W., at terminus of tTie White Pass and Yukon RR. the northwest angle of the district of Thunder from Skaguay, B.C. Its area Is 68,400 acres. Bay and flowing eastward along the north ol 262 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

the district of Algoma, falls into James Bay. North Saskatchewan River, with stations on Total length 3i20 miles. About 120 miles from the Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern its estuary it spreads into numerous branches RR's. The province Is governed under a extending far to the westward and southward, Lieutenant-Governor by an Executive Council and forming a complete chain of communica- of 5 members, besides a Legislative Assembly ti )n with the waters of Lake Superior, Lake consisting of 25 members. For judicial pur- Winnipeg, and Severn River. The Hudson poses the province is divided into two sec- Bay Company have four trading posts on this tions. Northern and Southern Alberta, each river. with Its local judge, sheriff, crown prosecu- ALBANY CROiS'S. a post .settlement in Anna- tors and public administrators. The province polis CO., N.S. New Albany is the nearest rail- is represented at Ottawa by a member in the way station, on the Central RR. of N.S. Canadian Senate and by memibers In the House ALBANY, NEW, Queens co., N.S. See New of Commons. The constituencies in the Alber- Albany. ta Legislative Assembly are: Athabaska, ALBBRNI, a post village in the district of Banff, Calgary city (pop., 11,937), Caxdston Vancouver, B.C., on the River Somas, 53 miles (1,002), Edmonton city (11,534), Gleichen, High from Wellington, on the Esquimau and Nanai- River, Innisfail, Lacombe (1,015), Leduc (591), mo Ry., and 22 miles from New Alberni, on the Lethbridge (2,325), MacLeod (1,144), Medicine Alberni Canal. It has a tri-monthly steamboat Hat, Peace River, Pincher Creek, Pono- service with victoria and stage-coach com- ka (473), Red Deer (1,420), Rosebud, St. Albert, munication with Nanaimo. It contains 2 Stony Plain. Strathcona (2,927), Sturgeon, Ver- churches (Presbyterian and Episcopal), 3 milion, Victoria and Wetaskiwin (1,648). The stores and 1 hotel. Pop. 300. boundaries of the province are: on the north, ALBERNI CANAL, a waterway extending In- the Mackenzie district; on the south, the land from the Pacific Ooean, in Alberni dist., United States; on the east, the Pro v. of Sas- B.C., on Vancouver Island. The coal town of katchewan; and on the west the Province of Alberni is reached by the canal, and lies on British Columbia, the dividing line being the the railway route projected north-westward to Rocky Mountain range, in the southern ix)r- Cawe Scott (on the extreme north of Vancou- tion of the province, and the meridian 120° ver Island), an extension of the Esqulmalt and west long, for the northern region. The pro- Nanaimo RR. from Wellington, the present ter- vince is finely watered, the chief rivers being minus of the line. the Peace, Athabaska, N. and S. Saskatchewan, ALBERRY PLAINS, a post settlement in Macleod, Red Deer, Battle, Pembina, Smoky eo., Oueens P.E.I. . 5 miles from Peake Station. and Buffalo rivers. In the northern section Vernon River is its port. It contains saw and (formerly Athabasca dist.), there are a num- grist mills and 1 store. It is 16 miles from ber of notable lakes. The climate is a vigour- Charlottetown and 13 from Georgetown. A rail- ous, bracing one, though Its coldness in the road is being constructed within 2 miles of winter months is much modified 'by the warm the place. Pop. 145. Chinook winds, which so temper the cold sea- ALBERT, a nenin^jular county of New Bruns- son that "horses and cattle are enabled to pas- wick, having the Petitcodiac River for its north, ture out of doors the entire winter. The soil and the Bay of Fundy for its east and south ij of the richest, which gladdens the farmer's boundary. Area, 439,680 acres. This county heart by enabling him to reap the finest and contains valuable coal mines and gypsum largest crops of wheat and other grains that Quarries. The chief town is Hopewell Cape. are harvested on the continent, furnishing The celebrated "Albert mines" were closed the most succulent of grasses for ranching pur- several years ago. Principal minerals now poses; while the nutritious grasses give suc- worked are plaster in large quantities, man- culent food for the horses and cattle, which ganese and some coal. A great deal of lum- thrive well out of doors all winter. For cattle b'^ring is done in the county. Pop. (1901), 10,- ranching no region of Canada is more favour- 925. able than Alberta, and this and the wonder- ALBERT, a post village in Hastings co., Ont., ful wheat-growing capacities of the province 9 miles from QVTarvovill^ Station, on the are attracting towards it great numbers of G.T R , 14 miles east of Belleville. It contains 1 Metho- settlers, including many from across the line, dist church, 1 hotel, grist and saw mills and 1 who are resorting to it with their families, woollen factory. Pop., about 50. live stock and household effects. The fertility ALBERT, a DOst village m Albert oo., N.B., of the soil in the province is shown, not only on the Shepody River and the Salisbury & in its vast stretches of fine grazing land, but Harvey Ry. It contains 2 churches (Methodist in the large annual yield of the best wheat and Baptist), 10 stores, 4 hotels, saw, flour and in the world, amounting to 30, and even 40, planing mills, furniture and carriage factories, bushels to the acre. Many of these rich ranch- 1 printing office, and telegraph and express ing areas are now operated iby companies, offices. It is a growing pleasure resort, afford- who are adding creamierles and cheese facto- ing beautiful scenery and good boating, shoot- ries to their husbandry operations, cattle Tierd- ing and fishing. Pop. 500. ing and horse-rearing. ALBERTA, PROVINCE OF, established Sept. ALBERT BRIDGE, a post village in Cape 1st.. 1905, when the Province of Saskatchewan, Breton co., N.S., on the Mira River, and 5 to the east of it, was created, both being dis- miles from Mira Gut Station, on the Louisburg tricts carved out of the Northwest Territories & Sydney Ry. It contains 2 churches (Roman of the Canadian Dominion. Its area, which Catholic and Presbyterian), 1 store and 2 now Includes part of the unorganized district forges. Pop. 250. of Athabaska, to the north of it. is 253..540 ALBERT CANYON, a post station in the dist. square miles, with a ix>pulation (1906), of 185,- of Kootenay, in Yale and Cariboo cos., B.C., on 000. The seat of Government of the Province the main line of C.P.R., 403 miles east of Van- Is Edmonton (adjoining Sstrathcona), on the couver. It contains 1 hotel and 1 telegrapb ,

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ofiRce. The silver mines which it possesses Brown Hill, on the G.T.R. (Sutton branch), 8 are not brisk, as in former years. All trains miles south-east of Jackson's Point, on Lake stop here 5 minutes to allow the passengers a Simcoe. view of the canyon. It i)os&esses hot springs ALDER, a river in Chicouciml co.. Que., considered invaluable for the cure of rheuma- west of Lake St. John. See Aulncies. tism. Pop. 20. Riviere aux. ALDER HARBOR, a settlement ALBERT HEAD, a headland projecting out in the dist, of Fogo, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 24. from the Metchosin shore, B.C., on which the ALDBRDALE, a post office Dominion quarantine hospital and grounds in Niplssing dist. (Chisholm Tp.), Ont., 6 miles from are situated, 7 miles from Victoria. Powassan Station, on the G.T.R., 19 miles south of ALBERTINE, a post village in Victoria co., North Bay, on Lake Nipissing. and 20? miles N.B., 18 miles from St. Hilaire, the nearest north of Toronto. The soil is good in the vicinity railway station on the Temiscouata RR. It for farming, and there is much game also, contains 1 Roman Catholic church, 2 stores, 2 being close to the north west corner of Algon- hotels, 1 lumber mill, 1 butter factory and 1 quin Park. Pop., under 100; pop. of office of the Western Tel. Co. Pop. 300. Chisholm Tp., about 1,300. ALBERT MINES, a post settlement in Albert CO., N.B., and a station on the Salisbury & ALDERGROVE, a country ix)st office in the Harvey RR., with port on the Petitcodiac river electoral district of New Westminster, B.C., on the at Hillsboro. It has 1 Baptist church, 2 stores, New Westminster and Yale waggon road, 8 miles 3 saw mills and express and telegraph offices. from Abbotsford, a station on the C.P.H. (Mission Pop. 250. Junct. line), 49 miles from Vancouver. It has Episcopal, ALBEiRT MINES, a post office In Sherbrooke Presbyterian and Methodist churches, and CO., Que., 1 mile from Capelton, a station on public schools, besides stores, post office the Passumpsic div. of the Boston and IMaine and hotel. Pop., about 200. RR. ALDERMERE, a settlement on the Bulklev River, in Skeena in Brant co., dist., B.C., situate near ALBERTON, a post settlement Aldermere Ont., near Jerseyville, on the Tor., Ham. & Lake. 65 miles south south-east from llazelton, at the Buffalo RR. It has a Presbyterian church, 1 head of navigation on the Skeena River. store, and 1 chopping mill. It forms a section Mule train is the only means of of one of the best agricultural districts in the transportation from Hazelton, though Al- dermere is province. Pop., about 100. on the projected Grand Trunk Pa- cific line. It has 1 hotel, ALBERTON, a post town in Prince co., P.E.I., 1 store, and Govern- ment telegraph having a good harbor on Cascumpeque Bay, station. Pop. (1906), 25. and on the P.E.I.Ry., 40 miles north west of ALDERNAY, a small settlement in Richmond CO., N.S., Arichat is the Summerside. It contains 5 churches, 9 stores, ADDER nearest port. 4 hotels, saw and carding mills, branch bank, POINT, a post, farming and fish- ing settlement post, express and telegraph offices. Pop. near the entrance of Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton (chiefly engaged in fishing), about 700. co., N.S., 8 miles distant from nearest railway ALBION, a post village in Kings co., P.E.I. station. North Sydney, C.B. It contains on the Albion River, three miles from George- 2 churches (Roman Catholic and Presbyterian), town Station, on the P.E.I. Ry., its river port 7 stores and several hotels. About 3 years being Montague River.' It contains 1 Baptist ago the N. S. S. opened a coal church, 1 store and carding, saw and flour mills. seam here which makes It a promising mercan- tile village. Pop., about 200. Pop. 110. ALBION, Cardwell co., Ont. See Bolton. ALI>ER RIVEIR, a post office in Guysboro CO., N.S., ALBION MINES, Pictou CO., N.S. See Stellar- near Heatherton (Antigonish co.), on ton. the I.C.R. ALBOS LAKE, in Halifax CO., N.S. ALDBRSHOT, a post village in Wentworth ALBUNA, a post village In Essex (S.R.) co., CO., Ont., on Hamilton Bay and the G.T.R., Ont., near Essex, a station on- the Amherst- half a mile from Waterdown Station. It con- burg div. of the Michigan Central RR. It has tains (Methodist and Episcopal churches, 1 saw 1 Church, 1 store and 1 school. Pop., about 60. mill, 1 store, 1 hotel, terra cotta brick and tile ALBURY, a post village in Prince Edward works and a telegraph office. Pop. 300. CO., Ont., on the Bay of Quinte, 3 miles from ALDERSVILLE, a post village in Lunenburg Trenton. The neighTx)rhood is one of the CO., N.S., 19 miles from Kentville, on the finfs' in central Ontario for agricultural, hor- Dominion Atlantic Ry., 10 miles west of Grand ticultural and dairy products, and large quan- Pre. It contains 1 Episcopal church, 1 store, tities of grain and fruit are annually shipped and 1 saw miU. Pop. 100. from there., It contains 1 Methodist church, 1 ALDERVILLE, a. post vihage In Northumber- stone mill, 1 grist mill, 2 barrel factories and land CO., Ont., oh Rice Lake, 10 miles from 1 private bank. Pop. 75. Hastings, on the G.T.R.; is composed entirely ALOESTER, a post settlement in Brandon co., of Indians. It contains 1 Methodist church, 1 Man., on the Souris River, 5 miles south of store, and a telephone office half a mile dis- Minto, a station on the Canadian Northern RR. tant. Pop. 250. (Souris branch). Pop., under 100. ALDINA, a post office in the Prov. of Sas- ALDBORO. a post village in Elgin co., Ont., katchewan, 27 miles from Duck Lake, on the 5 miles south of Rodney, a station on the main Prince Albert section of the C.N.R., 52 miles line of the Mich. Cent. RR., and on the St. north-east of Saskatoon. Thomas div. of the Lake Erie & Detroit RR. ALDOUANE, a post village in Kent co.. N.B.. It contains 1 Presbyterian church, 1 saw mill 3 miles from Richibucto, on the Kent Northern and cheese factory and a brick yard. Its port Railway and a port on Northumberland Strait. is Gla«eow. Pop. 100. rt contains 1 Roman Catholic church, 2 stores, ALDER, a post office in East Gwillimbury grist and saw mills. Pop., about 300. township, York (N.R.) co., Ont., 4 miles froon ALJ)OUANE, a river in Kent co., N.B., a 264 LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. tributary of the Richlbucto. Its banks are ALFORD JUNCTION, a post office in Brant well settled by French Acadians. CO., Ont. (Brantford township), 3J miles from ALDRIDOE, a station in Yale and Cariboo Harrisburg, a station on the G.T.R. d'.sr., B.C., on the C.P.R. (Crows' Nest div.), ALFRED, a village in Prescott co., Ont., 3 22 miles west of Cranbrook, and 61 miles eait miles from Alfred Station, on the C.P.R., and of Kootenay LaJiding. 9 miles from Montebello. It contains 2 churches, 3 hotels, and 5 general stores, 1 saw post ofiBce on Cormorant ALERT BAY, a mill, 1 sash and door factory. Pop. 420. Island, stopping place B.C. It is a convenient ALFRED CENTRE, a post office in Prescott for vessels to the northern ports of and from CO., Ont., and on the line of the C.P.R. British Columbia. Nearest railway station, ALFRED STATION, a post settlement in telegraph and express offices, Nanaimo, dis- Prescott CO., Ont., on the C.P.R. (short line), tant 165 miles. Its principal industry is sal- 46 miles from Ottawa. It contains 1 store, 1 mon canning. Has a Church of England mis- hotel and telegraph and express offices. Pop. sion. Pop. Indians, 223; whites, 24; total, 247. 300. ALEX, a lake in Champlain co.. Que. ALGOMA, an extensive district in north-west ALEX, a river in Chicoutimi co.. Que., which Ont., on the north shores of Lakes Huron and falls into the Peribonka River, which has its Superior, served by the m,ain line and "the outlet in Lake St. John. Soo" branch of the C.P.R. It has rich copper ALEXANDER, a post town in Brandon co., and silver mines, and is watered by numer- Man., on the C.P.R., 16 miles from Brandon, ous streams. Its chief town is Sault Ste. and 150 miles west of Winnipeg. It has 3 Marie, on the St. Mary River, at the south- churches (Anglican, Presbyterian and Metho- east angle of Lake Superior; other towns are dist), 8 stores, 1 hotel, with express, telegraph, Port Arthur, Rat Portage, Little Current, Chap- and long distance telephone of&ces. Pop. 400. leau, Schreiber, Gore Bay and Nipigon. Area, 71,193,938 acres. Pop. (1901), 63,850. ALEXANDER, a post settlement in Inverness ALGOMA MILLS, a post village and port on CO. (Cape Breton Island), N.S., on the Black the north channel of Lake Huron in Algoma River, IJ miles from Black River Station, on dist., Ont., 24 miles west of Spanish River, the Inverness & Richmond RR., 15 miles N. and 84 miles east of Sault Ste. Marie. It con- of Port Hood (on the Gulf of St. Lawrence), tains Presbyterian and Anglican churches, sev- and 5 miles from IMabou. Besides the post eral stores and 3 saw mills. Pop., under 300. office, it has 2 grist and saw mills. Pop., ALGONQUIN NATIONAL PARK, a forest re- about 300. servation of the Province of Ontario, in Nipis- ALEXANDER BAY, a station on the Reid- sing dist., north Ont., south of the Ottawa Nfld. RR. (Clarenville section), 30 miles north River, and south east of Lake Nipi&sing. of Port Blandford, and 8 miles south of Gambo, ALGONQUIN, or WRIGHT'S CORNERS, a Nfld. post village in Grenville co.. Ont., on Nation ALEXANDER'S POINT, a village and fish- River, 5 miles from Maitland, on the G.T.R., ing settlement in Gloucester co., N.B., on 5 miles from Brockville, with which it has a Shippegan Island, at the entrance to Bale des mail and stage route daily. It has 2 churches, Chaleurs, 3 miles from Shippegan, a station 1 saw mill, 2 stores, 1 cheese box factory, 1 on the Railway. The inhabitants are carriage factory, and 1 cheese factory, besides engaged chiefly in cod and lobster fishing. telephone office. Pop., about 300. It has 1 store, and 1 cod curing factory, be- ALGONQUIN PARK, a post settlement in the sides post and telegraph oflces. Pop., under dist. of Nipissing, Ont., and on the Madawa&ka River, and a station on the Ottawa and Parry ALEXANDRIA, a post district in Queens co.. Sound division of the G.T.R. Here is situate r.iu.i., 3 miles from Hazelbrook, situate on the Algonquin National Park of Ontario. It Hillsborough Bay, in one of the most fertile has telegraph and express offices. Pop. 25. districts of the Province. It contains 1 Bap- ALICE, a post settlement in Renfrew c(k, * ^ lobster factory. Ont., on Indian River, 11 miles from Pem- ^^ir ^H^fxTT^T^^^^ Pop. 180. ALEXANDRIA, a post settlement in Yale and broke, on the C.P.R. and C.A.R. It has 2 Cariboo dist., B.C., on the Eraser River 180 Lutheran and 1 Evangelical churches, 1 store, miles from Ashcroft Station, on the main' line 1 blacksmith shop and 1 shingle mill. Pop. 150. of the C.P.R. It contains 1 Roman Catholic ALICE SIDING, a post office in Kootenay church, 2 stores, and 2 hotels. Pop., under 60 dist., B.C.. and on the line of the C.P.R., near ALEXANDRIA, an incorporated town in Arrowhead. Glengarry co., Ont., on the Ottawa division ALINGTON, a post settlement in Simcoe co., of the G.T.R. It is the chief seat of the Roman 4 miles from Alliston, on the G.T.R. (Beeton Catholic diocese of Glengarry. It contains a and CoUingwood Div.). It contains Roman Presbyterian church, 20 stores, 5 hotels, grist Catholic and Presbyterian churches. Pop., and saw mills, carriage and cheese box fac- about 100. tories, branches of the Union Bank of Can- ALISON, a good farming settlement, with a ada and Bank of Ottawa, 2 printing ofQces. 2 post office, in Westmoreland co., N.B., on the telegraph offices, telephone (Bell) and 2 ex- Petitcodlac River, on the line of the I.C.R., press offices. Pop. 1,911. distant 6 miles from Salisbury Station. It has ALEXANDRINA, a post office in Kent co.. Baptist and Methodist churches, several stores, N.B., on the north west branch of Cooagne and post office. Pop., about 200. River, 16 miles from Moucton, and 3 miles ALIX, a new and rising settleinent in Strath- from Cocagne Station on the Moncton and cona electoral dist. of the Province of Alberta, Buctouche Ry. a station on the Lacombe extension eastward ALEXIS CREEK, a post office jn Yale dist., from the Calgary and Edmonton branch, 27 B.C., 200 miles from Ashcroft Station, on the miles east of Lacombe. It is situate In a good C.P.R.. 47 miles west of Kamloops ranching and mixed farming region, about 8 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 265

miles from Buffalo Lake. It has 1 Methodist ALLEN SETTLEIMENT, Hastings co., Ont. church, 2 stores, 1 hotel and 2 hoarding houses, See Cooper,

with express and telegraph ofEices at station. . ALLENDALE, a post office in Shelburne and Pop. 65. Queens counties, N.S., near Shelburne, a port ALKALI LAKE, a pot office in Cariboo dist., on the Atlantic, also a station on the Halifax B.C., on the Fraser River. Ashoroft on .the & South-western RR. C.P.R. (100 miles southward) is the nearest rail- ALLENFOBD, a post settlement in Bruce co., way station. Pop., about 60. Ont., on the Sauble River, and a station on ALLANFURG. a post village in Welland co., the Georgian Bay and Lake Erie branch of Ont., on the Welland Canal, and a station on the G.T.R. It contains 2 churches (Presby- the G.T.R., 5 miles from Merritton, and 13 terian and Methodist), 6 stores, 1 hotel, 1 grist miles from Port Colborne. It has, besides mill, besides post, telegraph and express post and telegraph offices, 1 Methodist church, offices. Here was signed the treaty by which 4 stores and 1 hotel.- St. Catharines water the Indians handed over the peninsula of worto and thfi Cararact Power Co. of Hamil- western Ontario to the Canadian Government. ton receive their water power from the Wel- Pop. 400. land Canal, at Allanburg at Lake Erie level. ALLEN'S MILLS, a post office in Portneuf Pop., about 300. CO., Que., on the Quebec & Lake St. John Ry.. ALLANDALE, a progressive village and grow- a few miles north west of St. Raymond. It ing railroad centre in Simcoe co., Ont., on has saw and grist mills. Pop. 100. Kempenfeldt Bay, an arm of Lake Simcoe, 1 ALLENSVILLE, a post village in Muskoka mile from Barrie, 63 miles north of Toronto. dist., Ont., 4 miles north-east of Utterson, a Allandale is a station on the G.T.R., on the station on the Toronto & North Bay div. of the Toronto, Muskoka, Parry Sound and North G.T.R., 10 miles south-west of Huntsville. It Bay line. TOie G.T.R. has here extensive has 1 Presbyterian church and 1 store. Pop., shops, yards, sidings and round house. The under 100. village has 3 churches (Anglican, Presbyterian ALLENWOOD, a post village in the county and Methodist), 11 stores, 3 hotels, 1 bank, 1 of Simcoe, Ont., 6 miles from Elmvale, on the saw mill, 1 carriage factory, with express and Barrie & Penetang branch of the G.T.R., 15 telegraph offices. Pop. 1,500. miles south-east of Penetanguishene. It has 1 ALLANDALE, a post village In York co., N.B., church, 2 stores, and 2 saw mills. Pop., about 43 miles from Frederlcton. on th© west side 60. of the St. John River. It has 1 Roman Cath- ALLEYNE, or ST. ANDREWS EAST, a post olic church and a large school house. Pop., 89. village in Argenteuil co.. Que., on the North ALLANDALE MILLS, Peterboro co., Ont. See River. 3 miles from Point Fortune, on the Lang. Ottawa River, 45 miles north-west of Mont- ALLANLEA, a post office in Macdonald co., real. It has 4 churches (Roman Catholic, Epis- Man., near Neepawa, a station on the Can. copal, Congregational and Presbyterian), 5 Northern and Can. Pacific RR's., 18 miles from stores, 2 hotels, and 1 grist mill. Minnedosa. It is 5 miles distant from Bernie ALLIANCE, a village in Middlesex co., Ont., on the C.N.R., and is a purely farming district. 5 miles from Glencoe, on the London and Chat- ALLAN PARK, a post village in Grey co., ham section of the G.T.R. It has 2 churches^ on Camp Creek, 3^ miles from Hanover, on the a store and a school. Pop., under 100. G.T.R. (Stratford and Owen Sound division). ALLISO'NVILLE, a post village in Prince It contains 3 churches (Anglican, Mennonite Edward co., Ont., 4 miles from Wellington, a and Methodist), 2 stores, 1 hotel and 1 saw station on the Central Ontario RR., 22 miles mill. Pop., about 200. from Belleville. It has 2 churches, 1 hotel and ALLANS, a station on the Bay of Quinte Ry. 2 stores. Pop. 150. In Hastings co., 17 miles from Tweed. ALLISTON, an incorporated town in Simcoe ALLAN'S a river In Annapolis co., N.S., takes CO., Out., on the Boyne River and a station Its rise in a number of lakes, and runs into on the G.T.R. (Beeton & Collingwood bnanch); Annapolis Bay. By this river and connecting also on the new C.P.R., Toronto & Sudbury stream an almost uninterrupted water com- branch line. It has 4 churches (Presbyterian, munication is had between Annapolis on the Methodist, Roman Catholic and Anglican), 35 north and Liverpool on the south coast of the stores, 4 hotels, 1 woolen and 2 grist mills, Province, in Queens co. The lakes in its 3 door and sash factories, 2 banks, 1 news- course abound with fish. paper office, 1 foundry, besides telegrapTi, ALLAN'S CORNERS, a post village in Cha- telephone and express offices. Pop. 1,800. teauguay co., Que. (railway name Brysons), on ALLISTON, a post office in Quoens E. co., the G.T.R., 5 miles from Howick. It contains P.E.I., near Cardigan, a sxation on the P. E. 1 Union church, 2 stores, 1 cheese and 4 butter Island BR., 6 miles west oi Georgetown. factories. Pop. 60. ALLOA, a post village in Peel co., Ont., 2 ALLAN'S LAXE, a lake in Yarmouth co., miles from Snelgrove Station, on the C.P.R., 7 N.S., which empties into the Atlantic. miles from Brampton. It is 6 miles from ALLAN'S MILLS, a post settlement in Lanark Georgetown, on the G.T.R. It has 1 Methodist CO., Ont., on Giant's Creek, 6 miles from Perth, church. Pop. 75. o-i the C.P.R. It contains 1 store and 2 flouT ALLRIGHT ISLAND, one of the Magdalen is- mills. Pop. 50. lands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Area es- ALLARD, a post office in Bonaventure co., timated at 8,600 acres. Pop., about 700. Que., 1 mile from Nouvelle West, a station on ALLSAW, a post settlement in Halliburton the Atlantic, Que. and Western RR. CO., Ont., 8 miles west of Haliburton, on the ALLEN, a post settlement in Frontenac CO., G.T.R. (Lindsay & Haliburton div.), 56 miles Ont., on the St. Lawrence River, 13 miles south- north of Lindsay. Allsaw can be reached also east of Kingston. It contains 2 churches (An- from Lochlin, on the same line of railway. glican and Methodist). Pop., under 100. It contains 1 saw mill. Pop. 30. 266 LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Baptist, ALLUMETTE ISiLAND, Pontiac CO., Que. See rian, 1 Methodist, 1 Episcopalian. 1 1 Chapeau. Cara<-ronian and 1 Reman Catholic). 40 stores, 4 hotels. 5 woollen mil s, 1 grist m 11, 1 foun- ALLUVIA, formerly MUD BAY, a post office dry. 2 planing mills, Thfi Eank of Montreal in New Westminsfcer dist., B.C., on the Nico- ha', an agency here: there are two newspaper mickel and Serpentine Rivers, with port at offices and tile.2;raph and express offices. Al- Elgin. Its station (1 mile distant) is Alluvium, mcute is in a good agricultural country. Its on the North Western & Y. RR. It has 1 Pres- streets are lighted by e'lectr.city, and it con- byterian church, 1 hotel and 1 store. talus a telephone exchange, a good high ALMA, a post village in Plctou co., N.S., on schcol, a dozen secret societies, a good fire the Middle River, 3 miles from Westville Sta- depl. and a prosperous mechanics' institute. tion and 3 miles from Stellarton, on the I.C.R. Pop. 3,023. V, contains an axe fa-ctory, post office and 2 ALPENA, a station on the Halifax and South stores. Pop., under 100. Western Railway in Annapolis co., N.S., 10 ALMA, a post office in Qu'Appelle dist., Prov. miles from Middleton. of Saskatchewan, near Areola, a station on the ALPHA, a post office in Qu'Appelle dist., C.P.R., 127 miles from Brandon. (See Forget.) Prov. of Saskatchewan. ALMA, a post village in Prince co., P.E.I., ALPHA, a station on the Delta branch of a few miles north west of Alberton. It is a the Canadian Northern Ry., in Portage la station on the P.E.I. Ry. It contains 2 churches Prairie dist., Man., 4 miles from Portage la (Episcopal and Baptist), 2 stores, 1 cheese fac- Prairie. tory and 1 saw mill. Pop. 150. ALPORT, a post village in Muskoka dist., ALMA, a post village in Wellington co., Ont., Ont., on the Muskoka River, 3 miles from on the G.T.R. (Wellington, Grey and Bruce Bracebridge, and 10 miles from Gravenhurst, div.), 20 miles from Palmerston, 22 miles from on the G.T.R. Pop. 60. Guelph. It contains 3 churches (Presbyterian, ALSAOE, a post village in Parry Sound dist., Methodist and Episcopal), 3 stores, 1 hotel, 1 Ont., 11 miles from Powassan Station, on the saw and chopping mill, 1 flax mill, 1 black- northern and north western division of the smith shop and telegraph and express offices. G.T.R. It has 1 Roman Catholic church. Pop. Pop. 200. 200. ALMA, a lake in Queens co., N.S., on the ALSFELDT, a post office and station on the River Medway, 25 miles from the head of G.T.R. (Stratford and Owen Sound div.), 8 Greenfield Lake. Into it flow a number of miles north of Harriston, in Grey co., Ont. small streams. It contains a Lutheran church, post office and ALMA, a small village in York co., N.B., 11 several stores. Pop. 100. miles from Woodstock, on the C.P.R. Pop. 35. ALTAMONT, a post office In Lisgar co., Man., ALMA, a post village in Albert co., .N.B., on and a station on the C.N.R., 54 miles west of the Upper Salmon River, and on the Albert Morris, on the Red River. It contains 5 Southern Ry. The railway station and the churches, 3 stores and 1 hotel. The post office river port bear the same name as that of the of Altamont is 2 miles from the station. It village. It contains 2 churches (Methodist and has 1 express office. Pop. 100. Baptist), 1 school, 5 stores, 2 hotels, 1 lumber ALTHORPE, a post village In Lanark co., mill. Adjacent are 3 lakes, accessible all the Ont., 18 miles north west of Perth, on the C. year round, viz. : Edgett's, Livingstone's and P. R., and 8 miles from Westport station, on Square. Pop. 500. the Brockville, Westport and North Western AliMAGUADUS POND, a post office In Cape Ry. It has 1 Presbyterian cnurch and 1 cheese Breton co., N.S., near Christmas Island in factory. Pop. 100. Little Bras d'Or Lake, 3 miles from Grand ALTON, a post village in Cardwell co., Ont., Narrows Station, on the I.C.R. It has 1 Roman and a station on the Toronto, Orangevllle and Catholic church, 1 store and 1 saw mill. Pop. Elora section of the C.P.R., 52 miles north of 150. Toronto. Has magnificent water-power in the ALMA HEIGHTS, a i>ost office in Algoma Credit River, utilized for manufacturing. dist., Ont., near Bruce Mines, a station on the Fin« agricultural country surrounding. It "Soo" branch of the C.P.R., 37 miles east of contains 2 churches and public schools, 2 Sault Ste. Marie. knitting factories, 3 grist mills, 1 foundry and ALMASIBPI, a post village in Lisgar co., machine shop, creamery and other Industries, Man., 3 miles from Gray's Station, on the Can. 7 stores, 2 harness shops, also a mechanics' Nor. RR., 6 miles west of Carman, on the Institute with a library of over 3,000 vols. same line, and also on the C.P.R. Pop., about Alton is 4 miles south of Orangevllle. Pop., 50. under 450. ALMAVILLE, a post village in Champlain ALTON, a post office in Colchester co., N.S., CO., Que., on the St. Maurice RiA^er, 1 mile and a station on the Halifax & Truro div. of from Shawinigan Falls Station (St. Maurice the I.C.R., 5 miles north of Stewiacke, and 12 CO.), on the Great Northern RR.. where the miles south of Truro. It has 2 stores and villagers of AlmavLUe go for religious worship. telegraph and express offices. Pop. 100. The village has 2 general stores and 1 hotel. ALTONA. a post village in Ontario co., Ont., Pop. 250. 3 miles from iStoufEville, and 30 miles from AiLMIRA, a post settlement in Yo,rk co., Ont., Toronto. It contains 3 churches, 1 store, 1 5 miles north of Unionville, on the G.T.R. It hotel and grist mill. Pop. 100. is situate on the Rouge River, and contains ALTONA, a village situated 7 miles north of 3 churches (Baptist, Presbyterian and Mennon- the U.S. (Dakota), in Lisigar co., Man. It is 4 Ite), 1 store, 1 flour mill and 1 woollen fac- miles distant from Altona on the C.P.R. It tory. Pop. 70. contains 1 church, the denomination of which ALMONTE, an incorporated town in Lanark is chiefly made up of Mennonites, 6 stores, 1 CO., Ont., on Mississipnl River, and on the hotel and 1 flour mill. Altona has a branch C.P.R. It contains 7 churches (2 Presbyte- of the Union Bank, and Dominion Express and LOVEIvL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 267

C.P.R. telegraph oflBces. It Is mainly a farm- land CO., N.S., 'runs east into Tatamagouche ing district. Pop. 525. harbor, on Northumberland Strait. ALVA, a post office in Brome CO., Que., on AMELIASBURG, or ROBLIN'S MILLS, a post the north branch of the (Missisquoi River, 2J village in Prince Edward co., Ont., at the miles from Abercom Station, on the C.P.R. , 6 outlet of Roblin Lake In the Bay of Quinte, miles from Sutton (on the Newport section, 8 miles from Belleville. It contains 1 Metho- Montreal to Boston) 69 miles east of Monreal. dist church, 2 saw mills, 1 flour mill, 1 Besides the post office, there is 1 saw mill, hotel. 3 stores and 1 telegraph office. The run by water-power, and 1 cheese factory. Pop. country surrounding Is admirably adapted for of district, about 100. farming and dairying. Pop. 200. AiLVANLBY, a settlement in Grey co., Ont., -_'^'^IHERPT. the shiretown of Cumberland is situated 8 miles from Owen Sound, and is co . N.S., is situate on rising 3 miles distant from AUenford on Grand ground at the head of Chignecto Bay. The nearest Trunk Ry. It has Presbyterian and Methodist port is Fort Lawrence, 3 miles distant. It churches. Pop. 53. is surrounded by a fine agricultural country, extensive ALVENA, a ix)st settlement on the Saskat- hay- marshes stretching to the chewan River, in the Province of Saskatche- northward. The I.C.R. has a station wan, 3 miles from Fish Creek battlefield. here, on the neck of land 12 which separates miles from Rosthern Station, on the Prince the Bay of Fundy from Nor- thumberland Strait, 138 Albert branch of the C.P.R., 18 miles south of miles north west of Halifax, and 139 miles Duck Lake. It has besides a post ofBce, 4 east of St. John, N.B. It contains 55 stores, 3 wbolesale stores and 1 hotel. Pop., about 200. houses, S churches (2 Baptist, ALVINSTON, an incorporated post village in 2 Methodist, 1 Presby- terian, 1 Episcopal, 1 Methodist Lambton co., Ont., on the River Sydenham, Episcopal, and 1 Roman Catholic), 4 hotels, 1 woollen and on the St. Clair branch of the Michigan mill, 4 grey iron foundries, 1 car wheel Central Railway. 34 miles from St. Thomas, foundry, 1 engine and boiler shop, 3 and on the G.T.R. loop line, 11 miles from machine shops, 2 woodworking factories, Glenooe. It has a complete system of water 1 trunk factory, 1 shoe factory, 1 casket factory, supply, and in the centre of rich farming and 1 axle forge, and 2 carriasre shops, 1 car works, ^ grazing section. It contains 5 churches (Ro- banks, 2 express offices, 2 telegraph man Catholic, Church of England, Presbvte- offices, 3 public hallc and 1 driving T>ark. rian, Methodist and Baptist), public school, 6 The town i«? rapidly becoming a manufacturing centre, stores, 3 hotels, 1 flour mill, 1 woollen mill, 1 2,000 mechanics being now emploved in the various flax mill, 1 sa?h and door factorv 3 black- industries. It has 2 printing smith and carriage shops, town hall. 2 char- offices andt issues daily tered banks (Merchants and Molsons), tele- two newspapers, besides other per- iodicals. A winter fair, under the graph office and a printing office issuing a auspices of the Maritime Stock weekly newspaper. Pop. 893. Breeders' Association, is annually held ALWARD. a post settlement on the Butternut at Amherst. Pop. (1901), 4,964; Ridgp" in the pouth west part of Westmoreland estimated to-day at 7,000. CO., N.B., 2 miles from Steeve's Settlement on AMHERSTBrRGH, an incorporated town In the Elgin and Havelock RR., near Havelock. Essex CO., Ont., on the Detroit River, 6 miles It has 1 Baptist church, 1 general store, 1 saw above its junction with Lake Erie, on the and grist mill and 1 cheese factory. Pop., Amherstburgh division M.C.R.. 16 miles from under ftO. Sandwich, the county seat. It is of special AMABILTSiH. a lake In Chlcoutlmi co., Que. historic Importance, having once been the AMAGANTDUS POND, a post settlement in garrison town of Maiden; remains of the old Cape Breton, N.S., on East Bay waters. The fort are still here, and the old Block House nearest station is Grand Narrow South, 9 miles on Bois Blanc Island oijposlte the town is distant on the Cape Breton Rv. The parish now a favorite pleasure resort, known as Bois has a Roman Catholic church, 6 stores. 2 Blanc Park. The town contains 6 churches, hotels, teleeraph and express offices, and 1 several large stores of different kinds, 5 hotels, saw mill. The district is about 3 by 5 miles flour, saw and planing mills, and an Iron in area. Pon. 1,000. fOTindT-y. It has also a cement block factory AMARANTH, a ]>ost office and station on the and fine stone quarry. There are two charter- Orangeville. "Wingham and Teeswater division ed banks here (Sovereign aijd Molsons), 1 of the C.P.R., in Wellington co.. Ont., 8 miles lyrinting office, which issues "Amherstiburgh from Orangeville. Pop., under 50. "WppVIv E^ho " It contains the Amprican and AMBER, a post office (in a farm house) In Canadian Express offices and telephone (long East York co., Ont., 5 miles from TJnIonville, distance), and telpgraph offices. It has also a

a station on the G.T.R. , 3 miles from Mark- good library, public and private schools, post ham, and 17 miles from Toronto. It has 1 office and custom house. Poo. 2,222. PrpcTrr-fAWfin church and 1 general store. AMHERST COVE (MIDDLE), in Bonavista AMBERLEY, a post village ia Huron co., dist., Nfld. Pop. (1901). 52. Ont., on Lake Huron, 10 miles from Kincar- AMHERST COVE* (UPPER and LOWER), a dine, on the G.T.R. It is surrounded by a fishing settlement in Bonavista district, Nfld., 12 fl'^e agricultural country. It has a teleoiraph miles from Bonavista. Has an Episcopal oflBce, 1 hotel and 1 general store. Pop. 160. churf^Vi 'Pr^r>. npnni, 917; AMBLESIDE, a post settlement In Bruce co., AMHERST COVE (UPPER), a settlpment in Ont.. 3 miles south west of Mildmav, on the the dist. of Bonavista, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 148. Hamilton Si Southam-uton division of the G.T. AMHFRST HEAD, a farming f^ettlement In R., 6 miles south of Walkerton. It is also Cum>>erland co.. N.S.. 12 mil^s frmri A^nherst close to Teeswater, on the C.P.R. It contains on the I.C.R. It contains a Methodist church, 1 saw mill and Tiotel. Pow. 50. 1 store and 1 saw mill. Pon. 300. AMELIA, or DBWAR'S RIVER, In Cumber- AMHERST ISLAND, near the entrance to the 268 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Bay of Quinte and Lake Ontario, in Lennox AiMQTJI, a river and lake of that name in CO., Ont., 5 miles from Ernestown Station, on the county of Rimouski, Que. the G.T.R. It contains 5 churches (2 Anglican AMULREE, a post village in Perth co., Ont., 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 1 Roman Catholic), 3| miles from Shakespeare on G.T.R. It con- 2 stores, 1 hotel, 2 cheese factories. Pop. 860. tains 1 store, 1 blacksmith shop, 1 cid&r mill, The village of Stella with pop. of 100 is in 1 feed mill and 1 hotel. Pop. 50. telephone communication with Amherst. Pop. AMYOT, a small flag stauion on the C.P.R., S60 beautifully situated in Algoma dist., Ont., 20 AMHERST ISLAND, one of the group of the miles east of White River. It abounds In Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, game and deer, and is a great place for sports- 50 miles from P.E.I., and 55 from Cape Breton. men. Pop. 25. For munioipal purposes the Island is attached ANACONDA, a post and mining settlement to Gasne co.. Que. There are on the Island In Yale dist., B.C., on the Boundary Creek, 3 churches, 9 stores, 2 hotels, and several near the Intercolonial boundary, and 1 mile lobster canning and fish curing factories. The from Grenwood Station, on the C.P.R. (Col- fisheries are mainly herring, cod, mackerel and umbia River and Western 'branch), 23 miles lobsters. The soil is not unproductive, but west of Grand Forks, and 9 miles east of Mid- sea- the inhabitants are chiefly fishing and way. It has 4 churches (Episcopal, Roman iaring people, and agriculture is consequently Catholic, Presbyterian and Methodist), 1 gen- neglected. Mica and gypsum have been found eral store, 1 hotel, 1 printing and newspaper chiefly of in considerable quantities. Pop. office ("Anaconda News"), 1 mine (''The Acadian origin and Roman Catholics, 1,700. Helen"), rich in sliver and gold, with the AMHERST POIISIT, a post settlement in Cum- smelting and ore converting works of the B.C. berland CO., N.S., at the head of Bay of Fundy, Copper Co. Pop. 350. 4 miles from Amherst. It has a church and ANAGANCE, a post village . in Kings co., office with money-order de- school and post N.B., at the head of the Petltcodiac River, settlement is situated in the partment. The and on I.C.R., 60 miles north of St. Cumberland marshes, noted for the John, midst of the 17 miles from Sussex and 6 miles from Petit- grain for 100 yea^rs without growing grass and codlac. It has a Methodist church, telephone manure. Pop. 90. . ^ , ^ office and a saw mill. It is an ideal spot for a stream In Cumberland AMHERST RIVER, visitors, tourists and anglers. Pop., about 75. CO., N.S. ANAGANCE RIDGE, a post town on the Cumberland co., N.S., 10 AMHERST SHORE, Anagance river, in Kings co., N.B., 3 miles from Bale Verte, on the N. B. & P.E.I. miles from Anagance Station, on tlie I.C.R. It con- (in Westmoreland co., N.B.). It contains 4 Ry. tains 1 Methodist church, 2 stores, 1 grist mill, stores, 2 hotels, 1 saw mill and churches, 5 1 factory and telegraph and express offices. ofBce. Pop. about 300. 1 telegraph Pop. 200. AMIENS, a post settlement in Middlesex co., Ont., 5 miles from Strathroy, on G.T.R. It has ANAGANCE RIVER, a river in Kings co., a Methodist church. Pop. 40. N.B., running from a ridge of that name east AMIGARI, a post village in Welland co., to Westmoreland. Ont., which now forms a part of the newly ANCASTBR, a thriving village in Wentworth Incorporated village of "Bridgeburg," a station CO., Ont., on the G.T.R., 7 miles W. S. W. of on the G.T.R. and Mich. Central line. This Hamilton, and about 2 miles from the cele- brated mineral springs, well-known specific new village includes what was formerly "Ami- a gari" and "International Bridge," two post for rheumatism and skin diseases. It contains mills, villages. 1 woollen factory, 2 grist 1 telegraph AMIRAULT HILL, a post village in Yar- office, 3 churches, 2 hotels and 4 stores. The Brantford electric road will mouth CO., N.S., on Tusket River, 4 miles from Hamilton and Tusket, on the Halifax & South Western Ry. shortly run through with branch to Gait and 700, It contains 1 Roman Catholic churx^h, and 5 Guelph. Pop. stores. Pop. of dist., 1,050. ANCHOR POINT, a settlement in the dist. AMISK LAKE, a body of water in the north of St. Barbe, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 51. east part of the Province of Saskatchewan, ANCIBNNE LORETTB, a thriving post village north of Cumberland Lake. Its area is 71,000 and parish in Quebec co., on the C.P.R,, 8 acres. miles from Quebec. It has a large lumber AMMON, a fairming settlement in Westmore- trade. It contains 1 Roman Catholic church, 6 land CO., N.B., 3 miles from Irishtown, a sta- saw mills, 3 grist and shinple mills, telegrapTi tion on the Buctouche & Moncton Ry., and 6 and express and Bell telephone offices; bank miles from Berry's vMills on the I.C.R., 8 miles at Quebec. Pop. of parish, 2,444. from Moncton. It contains 2 Baptist churches ANOONA STATION, a station on the Lindsay and a hall. The district oflers good educa- & Bobcageon branch of the C.P.R., 4 miles from tional advantages. Pop. 146. Bobcageon. AMOS, a settlement in Northumberland co., ANDERSON, a post, farming and lumbering N.B., 2 miles from [Derby Jet., on the I.C.R. settlement in Westmoreland co., N.B., at the AMOUR POINT, a headland on the south head oS the Gaspereaux River, 5 miles from «ast side of Forteau Bay, Labrador. Lat. 51° Midgic Railway station, on the N.B. and P. E, 27' 55" N., long. 56° 50' 53" W. On it is a Island RR., and 13 miles from Sackville. It lighthouse. certains 1 Methodist church, 2 saw mills and AMQUI, a post village In Matane co., on the a grist mill. Pop. 100. Metapedla River, and on the I.C.R. , 48 miles ANDiERSON, a small post village In Perth irom Metapedia, and 63 miles east of Rimous- CO., Ont., 8 miles from St. Mary's Station, on ki. It contains 1 church, 12 stores, 1 bank, 2 the G.T.R, It has 1 Methodist church, 1 school schools, 6 saw and grist mills and telegrapOa and 1 general store. Pop., about 25. and express offices. Pop. 440, ANI>ER60N LAKE, a large navigable lake in LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 26^ the district of Lillooet, B.C., 15 miles long and and the C.P.R. runs on the northern shore of 1 vide, well stock'ed with salmon. Ottawa River. It contains a railway station, ANDERSON LAKE, in Notman township, Ni- 2 churches (Roman Catholic and Presbyterian), plssing dist., N. Ont., lying south-west of Moose 2 general stores, 1 butter factory, telegrapb Lake Station, on the Temiskaming & Northern and express offices of C.P.R. and Dominion. Ontario RR., north of North Bay, on iLake Nl- Pop. 400. pissing. ANGES, RUISSEAU DES, a small rivulet ANDERSON RIVER, a considerable stream running into the Achigan, 1 mile above St. flowing northward into Liverpool Bay, in the Roch. L'Assomption co.. Que. Arctic Ocean, in Mackenzie dist., N.W.T. It ANGIKUNI LAKE, in Keewatin dist., situate drains part of the region north-west of Great r.outh-east of Doobaunt Lake, in Mackenzie Bear Lake. dist., N.W.T. ANDERSON'S CORNERS, a post settlement ANGUS, a flourishing post village in Simcoe in Huntingdon co.. Que., 4 miles from Dewitt- CO., Ont., on the G.T.R., lU miles from Allan- Aille, 24 miles from Hemmingford, on the G. dale, 73 miles from Toronto. It contains 2 T. R. It has 1 Presbyterian church, 1 saw mill, churches, 1 telegraph office, express office, 1 cheese factory, and 1 store. saw mill, 1 shingle mill, 4 stores, 2 hotels and ANDERSON'S COVE, a settlement In the dist. 2 blacksmith shops. County around produces of Fortune Bay, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 41. a large quantity of lumber and is rapidly be- ANDERSON'S LAKE, a lake in Halifax co., ing p-^ttled. Poll. 400. N.S. ANGUS RIDGE, a post office in Strathcona ANDERSON'S MILLS, a small place in Fron- dist., Prov. of Alberta, 8 miles from Wetaskl- tenac co., on Bob's Lake, 41 miles from Kings- win, a station on the Calgary & Edmonton ton, 3 miles from Parham Station, now known branch of the C.P.R., 40 miles south of Strath- as Fish Creek. It contains 1 church, 1 cheese cona (So. Edmonton). factory, and 1 express office (Parham). Pop. 30. ANN, the' name of one of a group of lakes ANDOVER, a post village and port of entry in Terrebonne co.. Que. It affords good trout in Victoria co., N.B., pleasantly situated on flshlnff. the River St. John (north div, C.P.R.), 100 miles ANNAHEIM, a post office in Humboldt dist., from Fredericton, 50 miles north of Woodstock. Prov. of Saskatchewan. 12 miles from Muens- It has saw and shingle mills, express and ter, a station on the Prince Albert section of telegraph and long distance telephone offices, the C.P.T?., 12 miles <:outh of Duck Lake. 4 churches, 2 .hotels, 7 stores, a bank agency ANNAN, a post village In Grey co., Ont., 6- and 1 graded school. A large trade is done miles from Owen Sound, on the G.T.R. and here in lumber. Pop. 500. C.P.R. lines. It contains 3 stores. Pop., under ANDRE, a lake in Charlevoix co.. Que. 100. ANDREW, a post office in Alberta Province, ANNANDALE (LOT 56). an attractive littlfr and a small station on the Calgary & Edmon- settlement on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on ton branch of the C.P.R., and also on the Can. the east shore of Kings co., P.E.I., and on the Northern RR. (S. & E. div.), 68 miles distant Grand River. It is an ideal resort in summer, from Edmonton. It contains 2 stores, 1 hotel with fine sand beach for bathing, and good and saw mills, and has 1 telegraph office. boating facilities. Broughton "Ray is its shli-)- ANDREW'S BROOK, in Bonaventure co.. plng post; 14 miles from Cardigan, on the P. Que., a small stream running into the Resti- E. Island Rv. It has ^ f^lnn-^Vies (Roman: gouche, on the north shore near Its mouth. Cathclic, Presbyterian and Baptist), 3 stores, AI^TOREWSVILLE, a post settlement on the 2 hotels, 2 grist and saw mills and 2 lobster Rideau River, in Lanark oo.. Ont., 2 miles canning factories. Pop. 100. from Merrickville, on the C.P.R., 9 miles east ANNAPOLIS, a county of , Tiav- of Smith's Falls. Pop. 50. Ing the Bay of Fundy as its boundarv. It is ANGE GARDIEN, a post village on the St. traversed bv the Dominion Atlantic Ry. and Lawrence River in Montmorency co.. Que., and by the Central RR. of Nova Scotia, and also a station on the Quebec, Montmorency & by Annapolis River. Its chief town and sea- Charlevoix Ry. In the neighborhood are the i>orf -is Annapolis Poyal. the oiliest Ti:uroT)P<».n Brule, Fer and Petit Pre rivers and La Re- settlement in Canada, about 100 miles north- tenue Lake, containing trout. There is a west of Halifax. The land is of a very suT>e- Roman Catholic church, 3 stores, 1 hotel, 4 rior oualitv, consistinff of dike, salt, marl. In- saw and wood mills. Mica has been found in tervale and upland. Its other towTis are Mid- the neighborhood. Pop. (1901), 1,179; (1907), /ilpton, Clemo^tciiort. Suri^ofield ^nd ^*"iit- about 1,500. land. Area, 847,280 acres. Pop. a901), 18.842. ANG'E GARDIEN DE ROUVILLE, or CAN- ANNAPOLIS, a river of Nova Scotia, which ROBERT, a thriving post village in Rouville at Its month exrtands into a wide estuary and CO., Que., on the C.P.R., 5 miles from West falls into the Bay of Fnndy, at Annaiwlis Farnham. It contains 1 Roman Catholic •Paci-n, p'ffer o con^sp of abont yn miles. Nav- chuiTch, 6 stores, 1 grist mill. 3 saw mills, and igable 30 miles. It is reputed second to no has a good trade in lumber, grain, flour, other steamer in the Province for salmon fish- Abutter, cheese and meat. Pop. 511. ing. ANOELINE, formerly SOIXANTE, a post vil- AiNNAPOLT« ROYAL, the old Port Royal of lage in Rouville co., Que., on the C.V.R., 21 fhp e-rn of Fvench oecuTiation In Acadia, and miles from St. Johns. It has a general store thp oldest settlpmfnt in Canada. Tn June, and hotel, 1 butter and cheese factory and 1P04, it celebrated its tercentenarv, with eclat. Canadian Express office. Pop. 200. ThP Provin'^ia'' Oovprnm^pnt >>«'= er^^'ted a ANGEL'S COVE, a settlement in the dist. of monument to De Monts, who visited the port Placentia and St. Mary's. Nfld. Pod. (1901). 41. In 1604. It is a ix>rt of entry, and does a large ANGERS, Ji post village In Labelle co.. Que., exT>ort tradp in lumber and fish, as well f^^ in on Ottawa River. It is 14 miles from Ottawa apples. It has 6 churches, 40 stores, 6 hotels. 270 LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

1 aM>l.e storage warehouse, planing mills, sash the transcontinental line C.P.R. It contains 1 and door, waggon, and boot factories, a large Methodist church. brick yard, and an extensive fish-curing es- ANTICOSTI, a large island lying off the tablishment, 2 chartered, banks (Nova Scotia, Gaspe coast, at the inner end of the Gulf of and Union of Halifax), 1 printing and news- St. Lawrence, and at the mouth of the great paper office ("The Spectator," weeidy), besides river. It is situate between the 49th and 50th good schools, post, telephone, telegr?»i>k and degrees of latitude (nearly the same as that 2 express offices. The town operates its own of the north of France), and between electric light and water service. It is a station the Gist and 65th degrees of west longitude. It con- on the Dominion Atlantic RR. Pop. 1,500. tains an area of 2.460,000 acres of land of the ANNAROWE, a small settlement in Queens best quality, similar, said the late Sir William CO., P.E.I., near North Wiltshire Jet., on the Logan, the eminent Canadian geologri&t, to the Ry. P.E.I. fine airable soil of Ontario, and the Genesee ANNA'S LAKE, a small lake on the W. side county. New York State. It possesses over 300 of salmon River, in Yarmouth co., N.S. miles of sea coast, is about 140 miles long, ANNBSLEY, a post settlement on the Quyon and 55 miles broad in the widest part, with River in Pontiac co.. Que., 6 miles from Quio an average breadth of 27J miles. Station, on the Waltham branch of the C.P.R., Anticosti was discovered by Cartier in 1534, 33 miles northwest of Ottawa. It contains 3 and called by him "Assomption," on his sec- diurches, 3 stores and 1 saw mill. Pop., about ond voyage. Jean Alphonse called it "Ascen- 150. sion Island" In 1542, while the Indian name ANNIDALE, a post office In Sunbury and "Natiocotec" has been corrupted to "Anti- Queens co., N.B., and a station on th© N.B. costi." Anticosti is made mention of so long Coal and Ry. Co. ago as 1660, in the geographical folio work ANNIEVILLE, a settlement in New West- of the celebrated loyalist. Dr. Peter Heylyn, minster dist., B.C., on an inlet of the Strait known as "Cosmographia." He reports that of Georgia. the island was then held by a tribe of Indians ANNINA-NIPISSINQ LAKE, in Nipissing who were exceedingly kind and friendly to dist., north Ont., lying to the north of Lake such mariners as landed there. The fief of Temagami. It is best reached from Latchford the island was granted by Louis XIV., about Station, on the Temiskanling & Northern On- 1680. to Sieur Louis Joliet, as a recompense tario RR. for his discovery of the mouths of the Mis- sissippi ANNIS, a post office in Yale dist., B.C.; the and the Illinois, and other services nearest railway station is Sicamous, a junction rendered to his Government; and it seems station on the C.P.R., and an arm of Shuswap to have been held of so little account in its Lake, 84 miles east of Kamloops and 45 miles primitive state that Charlevoix, writing about west of Revelstoke. 1722, in his "History of New France," says ANSE DU CAP (CAPE COVE), a post village that Joliet "would perhaps, have preferred in Gaspe co., Que., on the sea coast, 60 miles one of the smallest lordships in France." In from New Carlisle, on the Atlantic and Lake La Hontan's "Voyages to North America" is Superior Ry. It contains 2 churches (Roman a chart of the St. Lawrence, and a plan of the Catholic and Anglican), 9 stores, 2 hotels, 1 island, showing Joliet's Fort on the western flank. flour mill, 1 lobster cannery and 1 telegraph La Hontan was a French marine office. Pop. 1,652. officer, and he mentions that Joliet was cap- ANSE-PLEUREUSE, a small stream lower tured in his boat off the island by the English down the St. Lawrence than the River Ste. expedition against Quebec, in 1690, under Phips, Anne des Monts, Gaspe co.-. Que. It aflords Admiral but released after the failure good sea-trout fishing. of that expedition. Mr. T. Anbury, who sailed ANSON, a iK)st village and railway station with Gen. Burgoyne's army in 1776, devotes on the Central Ontario Ry. and G.T.R., in three pages of his work, "Interior Travels Hastings co., Ont., 2 miles from Txent River, through America," to the seal fisiheries of An- and 7 miles from Madoc Jet. It contains Bap- ticosti, and the method of catching these tist and Methodist churches, store and tele- animals between the continent and the ad- phone office. jacent islands. ANSONIA, a settlement on Thessalon River,, Anticosti slopes gradually from Its elevated dist. of Algoma, 3 miles north of Thessalon, northeim coast to the grassy savannas which on the Sault Ste. Marie division of t3ie C.P.R. skirt the southern s'hore, and thus, in a great It has 1 Baptist church, with post office, and measure, the fertile portions of the country express and telegraph offices at Thessalon. are protected from severe winter winds. Its ANTAMURA LAXE, in the co. of Restigouche, climate is very healthy, and it certainly is N.B., 20 miles from La Bale des Chaleurs. not severer than that of the other maritime ANTELOPE, a station on the main line of provinces. The winter's cold is considerably the C.P.R., iu the Prov. of Saskatchewan, 28 tempered by the waters of the Gulf of St. Law- miles west of Swift Current. rence, and the heat of the summer is, to a ANTEN MILLS, a post village in Simcoe co., certain extent, moderated by the same in- Ont., on the Manel Creek, J mile from fluence., Vegetation progresses very rapidly, Hendrie station, on the G.T-R- (Barrie and and crops come to perfection in good season. Penetang division). It has 1 cliurch (IMetho- The soil is of good quality, being a .rich loam dist), and 1 store. Pop., about 200. intermixed with limestone; valuable forests ANTHONY, a small lake in Charlevoix co.. are to be found on the greater part of the Que., near the N. E. side of Lake Nairn, into island, and although the timber generally is not which it empties itself. of the largest size, it is of a superior quality, ANTHRACITE, a hamlet in the Province of and well adapted for shipbuilding. Alberta, on Canada Creek, and a station on The fisheries around the island, which have LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 27i

been hitherto comparatively neglected, are of the island there are many peat-bogs, ing varv- valuable and important. in superficies from 100 to 1,000 acres " Near In his report for 1872, Commander Lavoie South West Point there are several large salt of herrings visit its ponds, which, if labor was abundant, says: "Large shoals might shores about the same time they repair to be turned to a profitable account in the Pleasant Bay, Magdalen Islands." He goes on manufacture of salt.

to say : "The whole of Anticosti abounds with Four lighthouses are erected on Anticosti: fish of all 'sorts, but harbors are scarce, even one on Heath Point, at the east end of the boats. Codfish on this coast are for fishing island; another at South West Point; the all large, and no finer are seen even on the third at West Point; and the fourth at South Miscou and Orphan Banks." The number of Point, at Bagofs Bluff. That on Heath Point fisherman frequenting its banks increases is a round tower, built of a grayish white every year. Halibut are so plentiful that 199 limestone, quarried on tne island, and is barrels are at times taken in one day. ninety feet high; it shows at an elevation of The seal fis'hery, which could be carried on 110 feet above the level of high water, a fixed here as well in winter as in summer, might white light which in clear weather be should be turned to profitable account, large numbers visible from a distance of fifteen miles. visible during^ the The lighthouse of these animals being on South West Point is builu being of the same stone former season, and thousands of them as the previous one (quarried autumn at the on the spot) s observed in the summer and seventy-five feet high, and of entrance of almost all the bays and rivers, conical form, wifi.K^"^^ exhibits a white light, where they remain comparatively unmolested. wh ch revolves every three minutes, and i^^ visible at fifteen Hunting on the island is of considerable miles, with the eye ten fee? above the sea; with value, though of far less importance than its the eye at fifty feet it the Island, ^^^"^ nineteen and a-half fisheries. The animals found on J^'^ I ^L miles, and eye at whose skins are of marketable value, are black ^, J^e an elevation of 100 feet it bears, which are very abundant, otters, mar- about twemy-three miles thirdtT/r^^'1lighthouse,lli""^' The tens, and the silver grey, red, black, and, erected on the West Point of Anticosti, sometimes the white fox. Great quantities of is a circular stone tower faced ducks, geese, and other wild fowl resort to the ^t above lakes and the bays of the island. 1,-P^,. iiigh. water mark, a fixed white light, visible from a distance There are numerous natural harbors round of fifteen miles. A gun is fired every hour the coast, which are comparatively safe in all during fog lighthouse at winds, Ellis Bay and Fox Bay being especially lofnt'Tf^"^'- '^?f South comparatively new building so. The former is distant about eight miles ^^If v,^^^ the ?''^ ^^^" exhibited from West End Lighthouse on the south side; 187?* T^.^'^^''^ in August 1870. It IS a hexagonal tower, painted the latter is fifteen miles from Heath Point white seventy-five feet above high water Lighthouse on the north side. Ellis Bay is a mark with revolving white flash-light every two miles in breadth, with deep water three- tVSitv seconds It should be seen at fourths of a mile from shore, but only with from fourt?eS ^'^^' distance, and is visible from three to four fathoms in shore. Fox Bay all 'iSl^T'' from ^PPF^ach. A powerful steam is smallex; the distance across its mouth is ^liSiJ"^^ °^i fog- also stationed there, only mile and a half, with deep water in Toc/^i? It about 300 felt one east of the lighthouse. In foggy the centre, extending up the bay nine-tenths during weather arid snow-storms, this is sounded shoaling near the shores of it; ten se^? of a mile, but onds in every minute, thus whole length of the bay being one mile making an in- the s^^°.

The currents around the island of Antlcosti terian church, 1 hotel and 1 shingle mill. are very variable and uncertain, and to this Pop. 100. caube may be attributed many of the ship- ANTRIM, a post village in Carleton co., Ont., wrecks that have from time to time occurred. 2\ miles from Kinburn Station on the Ottawa The tide around the island only rises from div. G.T.R. It has Episcopal and Methodist four to seven feet. diurches and 1 store. It is in the centre of Streams of excellent water reach the sea on one of the best farming portions of the Pro- every part of the coast of Antlcosti. They vince. Pop. 120. arc for the meet part too small to admit boats, ANVIL ISLAND, in Howe Sound, an estuary becoming rapid immediately wiinin iheir en- of the Strait of Georgia, in New Westminister trances, and even the largest of them are dist., B.C. It lies north of Bowen and north- barred with sand excepting for short intervals east of Gambler Islands, and is reached from of time, after the spring floods, or after con- Vancouver, near by, by Montagu Channel. It tinued heavy rains. has a local post office. Portions of the preceding account are from APISKIGAMISH LAKE, a body of water in an article by the late Wm. Smith, when Dep. Ungava dist., N.E.T., east of Hudson Bay. Its Min. of Marine. area is 250.880 acres. ANTIGONISH, a flourishing town on West APOHAQUI, a post village in Kings co., Biver, in Antigonish co., N.S., a station on the N.B., on the Kenneb'ftcasisi River, and a sta- eastern extension of the I.C.E,. It is the seat tion of the I.C.R., the centre of a splendid bishopric. It contains 4 churches of the R.C. farming district, and does a considerable ' ex- (Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist and po:*: trade in lumber and farm produce. It Anglican), 30 stores, 4 hotels, grist and card- contains 3 churches (Roman Catholic, Episco- ing mills, 3 banks, 1 college and convent pal and Mfithodist). 2 stores, 2 hotels, 2 mills school. Lighted by 'electricity. Has telephone and several factories, telegraph and express and express offices. Pop. 1,527. offices Pop. 200. ANTIGONISH, a county of Nova Scotia (area, APPENIN, a mall stream xunning into the 355,840 acres). It forms one of the north-east Etctiemin, in Levis co.. Que. counties of the Province, opposite the eastern APPIN, a post village in Middlesex co., Ont., end of Prince Idward Island, and separated on the G.T.R., 26 miles W. S. W. of London. from Inverness co., by the Strait of Canso. It has 3 churches, telegraph and express Pop. (1901), 13,617. Its chief towns are Traca- offices, 4 stores, 1 .hotel, 3 mills and carriage die, Antigonish, and St. Andrews. The county shop. Produce large quantites of cheese. Pop. Is served by the I.C.R. 200. ANTIGONISH HARBOUR (south shore of St. APPIN, a post village in Antigonish co., N.S., George's Bay), in Antigonish co., N.S., 5 miles 12 miles from James River Station, on the from South River Station, on the I.C.R. , 5 I.C.R., and adjoining Lochaber Lake. It con- miless from Antigonish, It has 1 Roman Catho- tains 2 churches (Presbyterian and Roman lic church and 1 general store, besides tele- Catholic), 2 stores, 2 hotels, saw and grist mills graph office. In the vicinity is a high eleva- and 1 cheese factory. Pop., about 200. tion, "The Rock," from which an unexcelled APPIN JUNCTION, a station in Middlesex is view can be had of the district, which CO., Ont., on the C.P.R. and Michigan Cen- Pop. diversified by lake and upland scenery. tral Railway. Pop. 10. (chiefly of French Acadians and Highland APPIN ROAD, a post ofilce in Queens co., Scotch), about 700. P.E.I., near the line of the Emerald Jet. and ANTIOCH, a post settlement on Big East Cape Traverse branch of the P. E. Island BR. River, in Muskoka dist., Ont., 16 miles north APPLEBY, a post village in Halton co., Ont.. east of Huntsville, on the G.T.R. (Toronto and 2 miles from Lake Ontario in a fine farming North Bay div.), 34 miles north of Gravenhurst. smd fruit-growing section, 3 miles from Bronte Pop., about 100. Station and the same distance from Burling- division ANTLER, a post settlement in the Province ton Jet. on the Hamilton & Toronto It church, gen- of Saskatchewan, and a station on the Bran- of the G.T.R. has 1 Methodist don and Regina branch C.P.R., 50 miles west eral store and nost office. Pop., about 150. office in Nipis- of Souris, Man., and 48 miles east of Areola, APPLEBY CORNER, a post Sask. It contains Presbyterian and Methodist sing dist., Ont., near Warren, a station on the meeting houses, 4 stores, 1 temperance hotel, main line of the C.P.R. , 43 miles west of North Bay, 2 grain elevators, 2 livery stables, 1 lumber on Lake Nipissing, and 37 miles east of yard and 1 butcher shop. This place has only Sudbury. office existed since 1899. Pop. 96. APPLEDORE, a post In Kent co., Ont.. 2| miles from Eberts Station and 10 miles from ANTLER CREEK, a former gold mining Chatham. Pop. 200. region in Cariboo dist., B.C., near Quesnel APPLE GROVE, a post settlement In Stan- Lake, east of the Faser River. steird CO., Que., 2 miles from Smith's Mills ANTOINE, a lake in Charlevoix co., Que. Station, on the B. & M. Ry., Lake Memphre- ANTOINETTE, a settlement in Argeuteuil co.. magog being Its port. It Is In. the midst of 9 good farming district, Que., on the Rouge River, 6 miles from St. and near stores, mills, Jovite, a station on the Montreal & Nominin- etc. Pop., over 50. gue branch of the C.P.R., 65 miles northwest APPLE HILL, a post office in Glengarry co., Ont., of Montreal. It has 2 churches, store, grist on the Beaudette River and C.P.R. It contains and "saw mills. Pop., about 150. 1 Presbyterian church, 2 stpres, 1 hotel, 1 saw mill, express and telegaph offices. ANTRIM, a post office known as Antrim, Lake Poo. 2.50. Eggmont and Devon, is situated on Gay's APPLE RIVER, a lumber and farming village River, Halifax co., N.S., 6 miles from Milford on the river of same name in Cumberland co., Station, on the I.C.R. It contains 1 Presby- N.S., 25 miles from Joggins, the nearest rail- LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 273 way station. It contains Methodist and Baptist ARCTIC OCEAN (named from the Greek churches, 3 stores, 3 hotels, 2 saw mills and word "Arctos," the "Bear," the constellation 1 lumber mill, post and telephone oflices, 2 of which is principally included within the daily mails via I.CR. Pop. 700. celestial Arctic Circle), that portion of the APPLE RIVER, on the west coast of Cum- Northern Sea extending from the Arctic Circle berland CO., N.S., falls into the Bay of Fundy (67-70° N. lat.) to the North Pole. The Arctic in lat. 45° 25' N., Ion. 64° 51' 30" W. At its Ocean enters deeply, in the form of gulfs, mouth it forms a good and well sheltered bays, etc., into the N. parts of the continents harbor. of Europe, Asia and America. The chief of APPLETON, a post village beautifully situate these indentations are the White Sea, In on the Mississippi River in Lanark co., Ont. Europe; Sea of Kara, Gulfs of Obi and Yenisei, It is 2 miles from Carleton Place, on the in Siberia; and Baffin Bay in North America. (.AleLhooist C.P.R., and contains 2 churches It is connected with the Pacific by Behring and Presbyterian), 1 hotel and woollen and Strait, and with the Atlantic by Baffin Bay and flour mills. Pop. 140. Davis Strait, and by a wide sea extending APSEY BROOK, a settlement in the dist. of from Greenland on the W. to Norway and Trinity, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 45. Lapland on the E, This portion of the Arctio APSEY COVE, a settlement in the dist. of ocean contains one of the largest archipelagos Fogo, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 59. on the globe. The middle of it is occupied by APSLEY, a post village in Peterborough co., Greenland, and on the E. is an extensive Ont., 31 miles from Lakefleld. It contains 3 group of islands known under the name of churches, 2 hotels, several shops, 4 stores and Spitzbergen, the small island of Jan Mayen, 1 cheese factory. Pop. 100. and Iceland. West of Greenland, and divided APTO, a post office with small store attached from it by Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, there in Simcoe co., Ont., 3 miles from Phelpston are a number of islands ot great size belong- Station, on G.T.R. ing to the Dominion of Canada. In October, AQUAFORTE, a fishing village and harbour 1895, the Dominion Government embraced the in Ferryland dist., Nfld., 48 miles from St. area of the Arctic seas lying to the north of John's. It possesses 2 churches (Roman Catho- Canada under the designation of the Franklin,

li'». and Episcopal), 1 store, 2 factories (whal- district, an estimated area (roughly) of 500,000 ing and guano), and 1 telegraph ofhce. Pop. sq. miles. The regions embraced by the more (1901), 189. restricted limits of the Arctic Ocean (namely, ARAT, a post office in Assa. West dist., Prov. from lat. 70-60° N.) are, perhaps, the most of Saskatchewan. The nearest station is Bal- dreary and desolate on the face of the globe. gonie, on the main line of the C.P.R., 16 miles The shores are covered with eternal snows, east of Regina. and the entire surface of their seas with large ARBAKKA, a post office in Provencher co., fields and huge masses of floating ice, in per- Man., near iDominion City, a station on the petual motion, and whose constant and tre- Emerson branch of the C.P.R., 55 miles south mendous collisions are attended with the most of Winnipeg. appalling sounds. Dense fogs, violent storms ARBUCKLE, a station on the Tobique branch and endless nights add to the horror of the of the C.P.R., in Victoria co., N.B., 1 mile scene. There is but one month in the year from Plaster Rock. (July) in which snow does not fall. The Arctio ARCADIA, a post village in Yarmouth co., Ocean freezes even in summer; and, during N.S., on Chebogue River, and a station on the the eight winter months, a continuous body Halifax & Southwestern Ry., 5 miles from Yar- of ice extends in every direction from the mouth. It contains 2 churches (Methodist and pole, filling the area of a circle between 3,000 Baptist), 3 stores, 1 grist mill, 1 tannery, and and 4,000 miles in diameter. Some of the 1 can factory. Pop. 400. masses of ice that line the shores of this ARCHAMBAULT, a lake in Montcalm co., ocean extend many miles in length, and pre- Que., township of Archambault. sent sea fronts of 200 feet in height; while ARCtHANG-E, a lake in Champlain co.. Que. fields of ice 20 or 30 miles in diameter, an

Sir Robert McClure made this passage. Sir county from east to west, and the rich mineral John Franklin attempted the passage in 1845- deposits of this range assure a future of gieat 46. but neither himself nor crew ever return- piosperity and wealth to the fortunate pos- ed. In 1857-59 Sir Leopold McClintock found sessor of lands in the neighborhood. Fully at King William Island a record of his death two-thirds of these are English-speaking per- and of his lost expedition. sons, settlers and descendants of settlers from ARCTIC RED RIVER, situate to the east of Great Biitain and Ireland; about a thiid of the northern ranges of the Rockies, in Mac- the people are French Canadians. The coun- kenzie dist, N.W.T. It is a tributary of the ty is rich in pasture lands, and is well adapt- Mackenzie River, which has its outlet in the ed for dairy opeiations. Possibly the time is Aictic Ocean. not distant when its immense water-power AR.DAGH> a settlement on Pickerel River, and its mineral deposits will be more iuUy Parry Sound district, Ont., 26 miles from Trout developed. At the present time an industrious Creek, a station on the G.T.R. (Toronto and settler can deiive a very comfortable subsis- North Bay div.), 20 miles south of Callander. tence from the pursuit of agriculture or dairy It contains 1 Methodist church. farming; most of the people are in comfort- ARDAL, a post office in Selkirk co., Man., on able circumstances, while not a few of the the Icelandic River, 45 miles from Winnipeg older farmers are undoubtedly men of wealth. Beach. It has 1 store. The county is reached from Monti eal (in the ARDiEN, a post village in Frontenac co., Ont., summer months) by the steamers plying on on the Salmon River, and on the C.P.R., i a the Ottawa River, the point of debarkation mile from the railway station of Arden—the being Carillon, in St. Andrews parish, and lake port being Clear Lake. It contains 2 the foot of the Rapids, which are overcome churches (Methodist and Church of England), by those costly public works, the Grenville 6 stores, 2 hotels, 1 flour and saw mill, cloth and Carillon canals. Since the line of the cheese and furniture factories, 1 bank, tele- C.P.R. has traversed the county, Argenteuil graph and express ofBce. This is a growing has enjoyed communication with Montreal and village, said to be unsurpassed in beauty of Ottawa by several trains each way daily. It situation and charming surroundings. In ad- is also traversed by the Great Northern, and dition it has a post ofBce money order and by the Montfort & Gatineau Colonization RR. savings bank. Pop. 450. Chief tov/n. Lachute. Pop. (1901). 16.407. ARIXEN, a post village in the electoral dis- ARGENTEUIL, a station on the Quebec, Mont- trict of Beautiful Plains, Macdonald co., Man., real and Southern Ry., in St. Hyacinthe co., on the White Mud River, and a station on the between St. Hyacinthe and St. Damase. Northwestern (Minnedosa) branch of the A'RGENTIA, a fishing settlement in Placentia C.P.R., 52 miles northwest of Portage la Prai- dist., Nfld., on Placentia Bay, 5 miles from rie and 9 miles south east of Neepawa. It Placentia, a terminal station on the Reid, contains 3 churches (Methodist, Presbyterian Nfld. RR. It has 1 Roman Catholic church, 3 and Anglican), 9 stores, 1 hotel, 1 flour mill, stores and 1 lobster canning factory; besides 5 elevators and telegrapTi and express offices. 2 whaleries in the Bay, at Rocbes and at St. The direct road to Lake Dauphin Is along Lawrence. Pop. 700. the beach of Lake Agassiz. Pop. 250. AROEiNTIA, formerly Little Placentia, a post ARDNESS, a post settlement in Pictou co., settlement in the disrict of Placentia and St. N.S., 7 miles from Avondale on the I.C.R. It Mary's, Nfld., 5 miles from Placentia, a station has 1 store. Pop. 70. on the Reid-Nfld. Ry. post village, ARDOCH, a in Frontenac co., ARGENTITE, a station in Nipissing dist., N. Ont., on the Mississippi River, 17 miles from Ontario, on the Temiskamlng & Northern On- Clarendon Station, on the Kingston & Pem- tario RR., between Cobalt and Haileybury, 7 broke Ry., 3 miles from Long Lake, and 6 miles south of New Liskeard, and 106 miles miles from Cross Lake. There are 3 churc;hes north of North Bay, on Lake Nipissing. (Episcopalian, Roman Catholic and Methodist), ARGUE, a farming settlement in Man., and a 1 store, 1 boarding house, 1 saw mill, 1 cheese station on the Canadian Northern Ry. It has factory and a school. It is in a purely agricul- 2 grain elevators. district. tural Pop. 155. ARGYLE, a post village in Carleton co., N.B., ARDTREA, P.O., a post and farming settle- 13 miles east of Bristol Station, on the C.P.R., ment in Si'mcoe co., Ont., 1 mile from Lake 26 miles north of Woodstock. It contains 1 Couchlching, and miles 5^ from Orillia, on the Methodist church, post office and 1 saw and G.T.R. It has 2 churches (Methodist and Pres- grist mill. Pop., about 200. byterian), 1 blacksmith shop, post office, and, ARGYLE, a post settlement on Oak Creek, at Orillia, express and telegraph offices. Macdonald co., Man., 10 miles west of Stone- ARGEiNTA, a mining settlement in Kootenay wall, a station on tbe Teulon branch ol the dist., B.C. It Jias a post office, and is reached C.P.R., 20 miles northwest of Winnipeg. It by steamer 3 times a week, plying between contains a Lutheran church and post office. Lardo and Kaslo, on Kootenay Lake. Pop., about 250. ARGENTBUILi, a county of Quebec, situate ARGYLE, a post settlement in Victoria co., in that part of the Province which comprises Ont., and a station on the Lindsay the & Coboconk Lower Ottawa valley. Area, 501,355 acres. branch of the G.T.R. It contains 1 Presbyterian The Ottawa River washes about 30 miles of church, 1 store, 1 hotel and 1 blacksmith shop. its border, and forms its southern boundary. Pop. 50. It is watered by the Rouge and North Rivers, ARGYLE, a post village and township and several smaller in streams. On the east and Yarmouth co., N.S., on Halifax and Yarmouth north it is bounded by the counties of Two Ry. It contains 5 churches (Baptist, Free Mountains and Terrebonne; and on the west Baptist and Methodist), 6 stores, 5 hotels, by Labelle county. 1 The famous Laurentian saw mill, telegraph and express offices. Pop. mountain range traverses the heart of tbe of township 951. LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 275

ARGYLE HEAD, a beautifully situated vil- 1 blacksmith shop, 2 saw mills. Pop. 100. lage on Argyle River, in Yarmouth co., N.S. ARKLAN, a post office in Lanark co., Ont., There are several lakes in the district. It 15 miles fiom Almonte, on the transcontinental contains 1 Baptist church, 1 store, 1 lumber line of the C.P.R. mill and 1 express office. Pop. 150. ARKONA, an incorporated village in Lamb- ARGl^LE RIVER, a river oi Yarmouth co., ton CO., Ont., 7 miles from Thedford on G.T.R. N.S., on which is a village of the same name. It contains 3 churches, 2 hotels, telephone and ARGYLE SHORE, a post settlement in telegraph offices, 2 stave mills, 2 grist mills, 1 Prince (Bast) co., P.E.I., on Northumberland saw mill, 11 stores, 1 bank agency, 1 woollen Strait, 11 miles from North Wiltshire, a sta- mill, 1 furniture factory and 1 printing ofllce. tion on the P.E.I. Ry. It has 1 store, post Pop., census lyul, ma. office and 4 lobster factories. Pop., about 225. AliKWOOD, a station on the main line of ARGYLE SOUND, a post village on Lobster the C.P.R. (Montreal to Detroit), 7 miles from Bay in Yarmouth co., N.S. It contains 2 Chatham, the county seat and nearest bank churches (Baptist and Free Baptist), 2 stores. location. The post office is called Louisville. Pop. 550. ARKWRIGHT, a post village in Bru«e co., ARICHAT, a port of entry, post town, with Ont., 5 miles from Tara and Invermay, 11 miles money order office, on Arichat Island, in Rich- east of Elgin and 22 miles southwest of Owen mond CO. (Cape Breton Island), N.S., 10 miles Sound, on the G.T.R. (Wiarton and Owen form Grand Anse on Cape Breton Ry. It is Sound branch). It contains i Methodist church, au old historic place, being founded by the 2 stores and 1 hotel. Pop. 66. French in 1730, and has a good harbor. Farm- ARLINGTON, a post settlement in Prince co., ing, fishing and shipping are the chief in- P.E.I., on Ellis River, 2^^ miles from Northam. dustries. It has 3 churches (Roman Catholic, It contains 2 churches (Roman Catholic and Episcopal and Presbyterian), 12 stores, 3 Presbyterian), 2 stores, schools, 2 saw mills, hotels, 2 banks (Union of Halifax, and private 1 cheese factory. Arlington polling division in- one), I printing and newspaper office ("Rich- cludes the entire No. of Lot 14 east of Western mond Record"), besides post, telegraph and Road. express offices. Pop. 900. ARLINGTON, a post settlement in Kings co., ARICHAT (EAST SIDE), a village in Rich- N.S., 4 miles from Canning, a railway station mond CO., N.S., 9 miles from Grand Anse Sta- on the Dominion Atlantic Ry. Pop. 300. tion, on the Cape Breton RR., and 15 miles ARLINGTON, a post office in Simcoe co., from Molntyre's Lake Station, on the I.C.R. Ont., 6 miles from Alliston, a station on the The principal industry is fishing. The fish Beeton and Collingwood branch of the G.T.R., are chiefly cured for foreign markets, though 7 miles north-west of Beeton. in the fall they are shipped fresh to the ARLINGTON, a post office in Cardwell co., Upper Provinces. Pop., about 700. Ont., 4 miles from Alliston, and a station on ARIEL, a post office in Parry Sound dist., the G.T.R., 7 miles from Beeton. Pop. 90. Ont., 4 miles north of South River, a station ARLINGTON BEACH, a post office in Hum- on the Toronto & North Bay div. of the G.T.R., boldt dist., Assa., Prov. of Saskatchewan, 16 11 miles south of Trout Creek, .and 18 miles miles from Strassbourg, on the Pheasant Hills north of Burks Falls. branch of the C.P.R. ARISAIG (UPPER and LOWER), a post vil- ARMADALE, a post village In Kings co., lage in Antigonish co., N.S., situated on Nor- P.E.I., ^ mile from Selkirk Station, on the P. thumberland Strait, 7 miles from Antigonish, on E. I. Ry. It contains 2 churches, 5 stores, 2 the I.C.R. It contains 1 church, post office hotels, grist and saw mills, and 1 packing and 1 lobster factory. In the harbor which factory. It is a shipping port. Pop., under affords shelter to vessels, the steamer from 250. Pictou to Mabou stops three times a week. ARMADALE, a post village in York co., Ont., Pop., about 200. 2J miles from Markham, on the G.T.R., 23 miles ARISTAZABLE ISLAND, in Hecate Strait, north-east of Toronto. It contains 1 church B.C., situate to the west of Princess Royal and 1 store. Pop. 30. Island, in the Skeena dist. The Laredo Chan- ARMAGH, or ST. CAJETAN, a post village in nel separates the two islands. Bellechasse co.. Que., 18 miles from St. Vallier, ARIZONA, a settlement on the Assiniboine on the Riviere du Loup & Quebec section of River, in Portage la Prairie co., Man., and a the I.C.R. It contains 1 Roman Catholic station on the Prince Albert branch of the church, several saw and grist mills, and has Can. Northern RR., 40 miles west of Portage a large lumber trade. Pop. 300; of parish la Prairie, and 96 miles from Winnipeg. It is (1901), 1,741. ia a fine, thickly settled wheat country, and ARMAND, Temiscouata co.. Que. See St. has 2 churches (Presbyterian and Methodist). Honore. Pop., about 200. ARMITAGE, a post village in Whitchurch ARIZONA JUNCTION, a station on the Can. township, York co., Ont., 2J miles from New- Northern RR., in Macdonald co., Man., 1 mile market, a station on the Toronto & North Bay west of Portage la Prairie, 57 miles west of div. of the G.T.R., 54 miles north of Toronto. Winnipeg, and 39 miles east of Arizona Sta- ARM LAKE, a lake 5 miles in length, on the tion. Kenogami-sibi River, Thunder Bay dist., Ont., ARKELCENIK RIVER, in Mackenzie dist., north of Lake Superior. N.W.T., flowing north-eastward into Lake Aber- ARMOND, a post settlement in Carleton co., deen, th«nce through Sctiultz and Bakers N.B., 12 miles from the St. John River, and Lakes into Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson Bay. the same distance from the C.P.R. station of ARKELL, a post village in Wellington co., Hartland, 12 miles north of Woodstock. It has Ont., 5 miles from Guelph, on the Speed River. 1 Primitive Baptist church, and 1 store (a It is a flag station on the C.P.R. It contains mile distant). Pop. 125. 2 churches (Anglican and Methodist), 1 store, ARMOW, a post settlement on the river 276 NOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

Penstangore, in Bruce co., Ont., 9 miles from ARNOLDS, a settlement in Cumberland co., 2 Kincardine on the G.T.K. It contains 2 miles from Oxford, on the Oxford and Pictou churches (Methodist and Presbyterian), 1 gen- branch of the I.C.R. eral store and 1 blacksmith shop. Pop. 30. ARNOLD'S COVE, a small farming and fish- ABMSTiElONG, a post village in Yale co., ing settlement in the district of Placentia and St. Mary's, Nfld., on Isthmus of Avalon, 3 miles B C. on the Okanagan branch of the C.P.Ul., miles from railway, and 103 St. 3(2 miles from Sicamous Junction, and 19 from John's. Pop. from Okanagan Landing, on Okanagan Lake. (1901), 111. It has 3 churches (Anglican, Presbyterian and ARNOTT, a post office in Grey co., Ont., 3 Methodist), 4 stores, 2 hotels, 1 bank. 2 flour miles south-east of Chatsworth, a station on mills, 1 saw mill, 1 sash and door factory, 2 th« Toronto, Orangeville & Owen Sound div. of printing and newspaper offices, telegraph and the C.P.R., 13 miles south-east of Owen Sound. express offices. Pop. 500. It has 1 general store and post office. Near the ABMJSTRONG, a settlement In B©auc« oo., village is Williams Lake (2 miles south-east of Que on the Du Loup River, is 28 miles dis- Arnott), where the Cement Company of Owen Station tant from St. Francois, on Beauceville Sound get their marl. of the of QC.Ry. St. Theophite is the name ARNPRIOR, an incorporated town In Ren- post office. The people are mostly Methodists. frew CO., Ont., on the Madawaska River, near Pop. 25. its confluence with the Ottawa, with a station ARMSTRONG, a post office in Kings co., on the main line C.P.R.. and also on the Ot- on the St. N.B., 1% miles from Quispamsis, tawa Div. G.T.R., 38 miles from Ottawa. It John' branch of the I.C.R. contains shingle, planing, roller, saw and wool- of Hants co., ARMSTRONG LAKE, a lake len mills, 2 telegraph offices, 2 express offices, 4 N.S. printing offices, 32 stores, 9 churches, 6 hotels, ARMSTRONG LAKE, a farming district in 2 sash and door factories, 1 boat factory, 2 banks, the district of Wallace. Assiniboia East, Prov. and has a large lumber trade. There ar3 of Sask., 2 miles north of Rokeby Station, on marble quarries and iron mines in the vicin- the Yorkton branch of the C.P.R., and about ity. Pop. (1901), 4.152. the same distance south of Kamsack station, ARNSTEIN, a post village on Wolf River, in on the Prince Albert section of the Canadian Parry Sound district, Ont., 39 miles from Trout Northern Ry. Creek Station, on the Tor. & North Bay div. ARMSTRONG'S BROOK. Restigouch© co., of the G.T.R. It contains 1 church, 2 stores, N.B., on Bay de Chaleur, 1 mile from Jacquet and saw mill. Pop. 250. River Station, on the I.C.R. (Moncton & River AROOSTOOK, an important tributary of the du Loup section). It contains 2 churches (Ro- St. John, rises in the State of Maine, and flow- man Catholic and Protestant), 3 hotels, flour, ing in a general north-east course falls into the saw and shingle mills, also post, telegraph and St. John a little above Tobique, Victoria co., N.B. express office. Pop., about 1,200. Length about 120 miles. Its banks are heavily timbered. ARMSTRONG'S CORNER, a post village on AROOSTOOK JUNCTION, a station River, in Queens co., N.B., 6 miles on the Nieripis C.P.R., in Victoria C.P.R. It con- co., N.B., 57 miles from from Welsford Station, on the Edmundston. tains 1 store, 2 grist mills and 1 saw mill. AROOSTOOK PORTAGE, a settlement (agri- cultural) ARMS-TRONG'S MILLS (formenly UNION- in Victoria co., N.B., on the St. John River, 4 miles from Aroostook Jet., on the VILLE), a post settlement in Wellington co., C.P.R., 19 miles south of Grand Palls. Pop, the Speed River, 8 miles from Guelph, Ont., on 250. oi the G.T.R. It has, nearby, 1 Presbyterian AROS, a small settlement In Victoria co., church and 1 lumber mill. Pop., about 50. Ont., 4 miles S. E. of Victoria Road, a station ARNAUD, a progressive post settlement in on the G.T.R, (Coboconk & Lindsay branch) Provencher co., Man., on the C.P.R., 48 miles ARRAN, a lake in the township of Arran, south of Winnipeg and 7 miles north of Domin- CO. of Bruce, Ont,, about 7 miles long by 2 ion City. It possesses 1 Presbyterian church, 2 miles wide. It is frequented by pike and bass. general stores and other shops, 1 hotel, 2 eleva- ARRANDALE, a post office in Comox-Atlin tors, 1 printing office which issues the "Ad- dist., B.C. vance." It is in centre of finest wheat district. ARROCHAR, a settlement in Assiniboia East Pop. 125. dist.. Province of Saskatchewan, 4 miles west of ARNER, a post settlement in Essex co., Ont., Moosomin, on the C.P.R., 16 miles west of 2 miles from Lake Erie, and on the Pere Mar- Kirkella and 45 miles east of Broadview. Pop. quette Ry. It contains 1 store, and 1 saw mill. 25. Pop. 100. ARROW HEAD, a post village in the district ARNES, a post settlement in Selkirk co., of Yale and Cariboo, B.C., on the Columbia Man., near Nettly Lake station, on the Winni- River, and a station on the C.P.R., it is also peg Beach div. of the C.P.R. port of landing for C.P.R. boats. It contains 2 ARNOLD, a river of Quebec, rises in the churches (Episcopal and Presbyterian), 4 stores township of Woburn, co. of Compton. and (2 Chinese), 3 hotels, 2 lumber mills capable of enters the southern extremity of Lake Megan- turning out 2,500 feet per diem, and a branch tic. It derives its name from General Arnold, of Imperial Bank. Pop. 400. who, in 1775, passed part of his troops down it ARROW LAKE, a small lake, also a river of when conducting his army to Quebec to co- the same name on the boundary between Rainy operate with the forces of Gen. Montgomery in River dist.. Ont.. and Minnesota, U.S, the reduction of that city. ARROW LAKE (UPPER and LOWER), a ARNOLD LAKE, a small lake in Kings co., long narrow sheet of water in West Kootenay N.B., well stocked with trout. dist,, B,C. LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 277

ARROW RIVER, a post settlement (agricul- Que., 3 miles from Danville on the G.T.R. Its tural) in Marquette co., Man., on Miniota chief industry is asbestos mining which gives branch C.P.R. It contains 2 general stores, 1 employment to about 400 men. It has 1 Roman boarding bouse, lumber yard and blacksmith Catholic church (the meeting place of the other shop. Pop., about 300. denominations is the Protestant school house), 4 stores, 1 temperance hotel, 1 a post office in Marquette co., asbestos mill. ARROWTON, Pop. Man., near Hamiota, on the Miniota branch of 1,200. ASCOT CORNER, a post village in Sher- the C.P.R-, 8 miles west of Oak River. brooke co.. Que., on the St. Francis ARTHABASKA, a county in the south part of River, and on the Q.C.R. It contains 2 churches 2 the Province of Quebec, area and that of saw and grist mills and brickyards and 3 general Drummond 877,408 acres. It is traversed by the stores. Pop. Grand Trunk Railway, the C.P.R., and the 250. ASESSIPPI, a post settlement in Marquette I.C.R., and drained by the Nicolet River and CO., Man., on the Shell River, 12 miles from its branches. It is attached to Drummond for Russell, on the Can. Paciflc Ry. It possesses electoral purposes. Chief town. Arthabaska^ one of the finest water powers in the Province. ville. Pop. jointly of Drummond and Artha- It contains 1 store, 1 hotel, 1 flour mill, and 1 baska (1901), 44,484. school. Pop. 40. town of the district ARTHABASKA, the chief ASH, a post settlement in Halton CO., Ont., Artha- of Arthabaska, Que., 2^ miles from on the Hamilton and Allandale division of the besides the county baska Station. It contains, G.T.R. It contains 1 store. Pop., under 25. church, 1 commer- buildings, a Roman Catholic ASHBERISH, a river in Temiscouata co.. soap fac- cial college, 1 convent, 1 hospital, 1 Que., rises in a chain of small lakes in a ridge 1 tannery, 1 print- tory, 1 cheese box factory, of mountains north-west of Lake Temiscouata, paper, 2 hotels, sev- ing office issuing a weekly into the head of which it discharges itself. and flour- eral stores, a potash factory, 2 saw village in Ontario co., Ont, 2 Mol- ASHBURN, a ing mills, 1 telegraph office, and branch of miles from Myrtle, on the Midland division sons Bank. Pop. (1901), 995. G.T.R. It contains 1 Presbyterian church, 1 Victoriaville. ARTHABASKA STATION. See general store, 1 temperance hotel, 1 wagon fac- on the Conestogo ARTHUR, a post town tory. Pop. 200. half River, Wellington co., Ont., on the C.P.R., ASHBURNHAM, in Peterborough co., Ont. a mile from Arthur Station. Toronto is its See Peterborough. (Episcopal, Roman port. It contains 4 churches ASHBURNTON, a post office in Assa. dist., Latter Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Prov. of Saskatchewan, near Oxbow Station, on hotels, 2 grist mills, 1 Day Saints), 18 stores, 4 the C.P.R. (Estevan section), 7 miles from Ala- saw and shingle mill, 1 flax mill, 2 banks (Tra- meda. banks, 1 printing ders and Royal), 2 private ASHBY, a post village in Cape Breton co., express office. office, 2 telegraph offices and 1 N.S., on Sydney harbor, 1 miile from Sydney Pop. 1,600. station, on the S. & L. RR. It has a Presby- ARTHURETTE, a post settlement in Victoria terian church, 6 stores and 1 hotel. Pop., CO., N.B., and a station on the Perth Jet. and about 400. Plaster Rock branch of the C.P.R., 15 miles ASH CREEK, a post village in Selkirk co., from Andover. Pop., about 350. Man., 2^ miles from Baldur, on the Canadian ARTHURVALE, a new settlement and post Northern Railway (Wakopa branch), 16 miles office in the Province of Alberta, 25 miles from from Belmont. Pop., under 100. Innisfail Station, on the C.P.R. (Calgary and ASHCROFT STATION, a post settlement and Edmonton branch), 6 miles south of Pine Lake. railroad depot on the C.P.R., in Yale co., B.C., The region is a good wheat raising one, also about midway between Lytton and Kamloops, for root crops of all kinds. In the vicinity, and 200 miles east of Vancouver. It is on the especially along the Red Deer River, coal is to Thompson River, has a dry climate and light be found, while timber is scarce. Pop. of dis- atmosphere, the surrounding district being ex- trict, about 250. cellent grazing land, on which much farming ARTHURVILLE, a post village in Bellechasse is done by irrigation and considerable stock CO., Que., on the Riviere du Sud, on the I.C.R. raised. Ashcroft is the entrepot to the Cariboo (Riviere du Loup & Quebec section), 4 miles district, via stage line to Barkerville, a distance from St. Vallier. It contains 4 mills. Pop., of 287 miles. The village has a fine electric about 160. light plant and good water system; it has also ARTILLERY LAKE, a large body of water 3 churches (Anglican, Presbyterian and Metho- in Mackenzie dist. N.W.T., lying to the north dist), 10 stores, 3 hotels, 1 bank, 1 saw mill, 1 east of Great Slave Lake. printing and newspaper office ("Ashcroft Jour- ARUNDEL, a post settlement on the Rouge nal"), besides express and telegraph offices. River, Argenteuil co., Que. It is on the Mont- Pop. 500. fort «& Gatineau RR., 1 mile from Huberdeane. ASHDALE, a post village in Antigonish co., It contains Methodist, Anglican and other de- N.S., on Meander River, 9 miles from James nominational churches, 5 stores, 1 hotel, saw, River Station, on the I.U.R. It contains ii^ug- grist, shingle and planing mills. Pop. of dis- lish. Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist trict, 850. churches, 1 large general store, 1 mill and ARVA, or ST. JOHN'S, a post village in Mid- blacksmith and carpenter shops. Pop. 107. dlesex CO., Ont., on the Thames River, 5 miles ASHDAD, a post settlement in Bagot town- from London, on the C.P.R. and G.T.R. It con- ship, Renfrew co., Ont., and a station on the

tains 2 churches (Anglican and Methodist) > 1 Kingston & Pembroke Ry., 16 miles from hotel, telegraph and express offices, 2 stores and Arnprior, and 10 miles south of Renfrew. The 1 grist mill. Pop. 150. railway name is Ashdod. It contains 1 Jiotel ASBESTOS, a post town in Richmond co.. and X saw mill. Pop., about 200. 278 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

ASHDOWN, a former post office in the dis- good sized trees around the lake, and fruit, trict of Muskoka, Ont., 1% miles from Rosseau grass, etc., thrive well. steamboat landing, at the head of Lake Ros- ASHUAPMOUCHOUAN, or CHAMOUCHOUAN, seau. Pop. (1906). under 10. a large river of north-western Quebec, rises in ASHDOWN, a station on the Can. Northern the highlands separating the watershed of the Ry., in Brandon co., Man., 25 miles east of rivers flowing into the St. Lawrence from those Brandon. flowing into Hudson Bay, 80 miles north-east ASHFIELD, a post village in Inverness co., of Metiscan, and running south-east enters the N.S., 5 miles from Orangedale Station, on the west side of Lake St. John, lat. 48° J9' N., Ion. Cape Breton branch of the I.C.R. Its port of 72° 10' W. Length about 170 miles. In its entry is Bras d'Or Lake. It contains 1 church, course It receives the tributary waters of the 6 stores, 1 hotel, 6 mills, with post, telegraph, Shecoubish, Roche Coupe, and Salmon rivers. and express offices. Pop. 200. Its navigation is obstructed by falls and cas- ASHFIELD, a river in Huron co., Ont., run- cades. The valley of the Ashuapmouchouan ning into Lake Huron, 9 miles above Goderich. differs but little from that around Lake St. ASHGROVE, a post village in Halton co., John, being underlaid with clay, which forms Ont., 4 miles from Georgetown, on the G.T.R. an excellent soil. All kinds of grain and many It has a Methodist church, and small steam vegetables yield well. Towards the 36th mile furniture shop. Pop., about 30. sand hills predominate, rendering the land less ASH ISLAND, an island in the River Riche- fit for tillage. The Shecoubish River enters It lieu, at the mouth of the River Lacolle. 58 miles from Lake St. John, and 23 miles fur- ASHLAND, a post village in Carleton co., ther It receives La Loche brook. A little above N.B., 5 miles from Hartland Station, on the the 92nd mile it divides into two branches. One C P.R.. 12 miles north of Woodstock. It con- of these comes from the N. N. E,. and being tains 1 Baptist church. Pop., about 200. the larger is called by the Indians the Chief ASHLEY, a post office in Grey co., Ont., 5 River. The other branch retains the name of miles from Owen Sound. th3 Ashuapmouchouan. 24 miles up is Lake ASHNOLA, a settlement in the upper reaches Ashua.pmouchouan. From here to its source the of the Fraser River, in Cariboo dist., B.C. In river is called the Nikoubau. the region there is good mountain sheep sport ASHUAPMOUCHOUAN, a post settlement in for hunters. Chicoutimi co., Que., on the river of the same ASHRATSr, a lake in Chicoutimi co.. Que., name. 13 miles from Roberval. the terminus of about 5 miles in circumference, has its outlet the Quebec & Lake St. John Ry. It contains a in Lake Ashuapmouchouan through the small Roman Catholic church, 3 stores, 1 boarding river Red Carp. house, saw and grist mills, and 1 stump ex- ASHTON, a post village in Carleton co.. Ont., tractor factory. Pop. 1,400. on the River Jock, with a station on the C.P.R., ASHUPEKACHIGAN, or MANIKOUAGAN. a 24 miles from Ottawa. It contains 2 stores, 1 river running into the north shore of the Gulf saw and grist mill. 1 cheese factorj'. 3 churches of St. Lawrence, east of River Outarde. and 1 school. Pop. 200. ASHVILLE, a post village in Marquette co.. ASHUANIPI, or HAMILTON, the great river Man., and a station on the Edmonton div. of of Labrador, which separates north Quebec the Canadian Northern RR., 12 miles west of from Ungava dist., has its source near the head Dauphin. waters of the east branch of the Moisic. and ASHWORTH, or STANLBYDALE, a post office after a course of 600 miles enters the Atlantic in Muskoka co., Ont., on Black River, 12 miles through Esquimaux Bay or Hamilton Inlet. At from Huntsville. H miles from Utterson and its mouth it is nearly ll^ miles wide, and 25 also from Sprucedale. It contains 1 Anglican miles up Its breadth varies from 14 to 14 mile. church, 1 store, and 1 lumber mill. Pop. 120. About 100 miles up occur the great falls, one ASKANDAGA RIVER, rises in Keewatin dist., of the grandest spectacles in the world. Six and flows into Lake Winnipeg, Man. miles above the falls, the river suddenly con- ASKATICHE, a lake in Chicoutimi co., north- tracts to about 100 yards, then rushing along ern Quebec, south-west of Lake Mistassini, re- in a continuous foaming rapid, finally contracts ceives tlhe waters of a small lake In lat. 48° 18' to a breadth of 50 yards ere it rrecipitates itself N.. and discharges them and its own into the over the rock which forms the fall; when, still Nikoubau River, which forms the first part of roaring and foaming, it continues its maddened the Riv^r Ashuaomouchouan. See the latter. course for about 30 miles, pent up between ASKER, a post settlement in Province of walls of rock that rise sometimes to the height Alberta, 17 miles from Ponoka, on the C.P.R. of 300 feet on either sidp. This; stupendous fall It has 1 store. Pop. 150. exceeds in height the Falls of Niagara. ASKILTON, a post office in Inverness co. ASHUANIPI LAKE, a considerable sheet of (Cape Breton Island), N.S. W«st Bay Road, on water in the Province of Quebec the source the I.C.R. . is the nearest railway station, 14 of the Moisie River, near the south boundary miles north of Point Tupper. Pop. 50. of Ungava. Its area is 204,000 acres. ASPDIN, a post settlement in Muskoka dist., ASHUAPMOUCHOUAN ("The Indians Am- Ont., 8 miles from Utterson, 20 miles from bush," or "The place where the Elk is laid Bracebridge and 31 from Gravenhurst. It has wait for"), a lake of N. W. Quebec, 150 miles 2 churches (Episcopal and Presbyterian), 1 W. of Lake St. John. Lat. 49° 27' N., Ion. 78° school. 1 lumber and shingle mill, 2 stores. 55' W. Length 10 miles*; average breadth 4 Pop. 75. miles. It receives the waters of several large ASPEN (ST. MARY'S), Guysboro co., N.S., on lakes, and has its outlet in the River Ash- River St. Mary's, 25 miles from Antigonish, the uapmouchouan, At the north-east extremity of nearpst raHway station. It contains 2 churches the Lake, 147 miles north of Montreal, is a (Presbyterian and Baptist), 2 stores, 3 shingle Hudson Bay Company's trading post. There are and 2 saw mills and telephone office. Pop. 100. LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 279

ASPEN COVE, a settlement in the dist. of the waters of the Qu'Appelle and Souris rivers, trinity, Nfld. Pop. (1901), 21. winds to the east and discharges itself into ASPEN GROVE, a post office in Yale dist., th« Red River, 30 or 40 miles above its mouth B.C., near Spence's Bridge, on tlie Tliompson in Lake Winnipeg. The Hudson Bay Company River, and a station on tlie C.P.R., 178 miles have several trading posts on this river. It is north-east of Vancouver. navigable in spring and early summer as far ASPOTOGAN, a post office in Chester dist., as Fort Ellice. in Lunenburg co., N.S., 10 miles from Hub- ASSINIBOINE, MOUNT, an elevated peak in bards, on the Halifax & Southwestern Ry. the Rockies, in B.C. ASPY BAY, a post village in Victoria co., ASSUMPTION, a river of Quebec. See L'As- N.S., on Aspy Bay, 100 miles from North Syd- somption. ney on the I.C.R. It contains 3 churches (Me- ASTLE'S CROSSING, a station on the Fre- dericton thodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic), 3 branch of the I.C.R. , 78 miles from stores, 1 boarding house, 1 grist and 1 saw Chatham, and 42 miles from Fredericton. mill, 3 lobster canneries, also telegraph and ex- ASTLEYVILLE, a post settlement in the Pro- press offices. This district is a farming one vince of Alberta, on the Sturgeon River, about noted for its beautiful scenery. Pop. 1,200. 10 miles from Fort Saskatchewan, on the Can, ASPY BAY, an inlet of the sea in Victoria Northern RR. It has 1 Union service hall CO., N.S., on the north coast of Cape Breton (Episcopal and Methodist), 1 school house, and Island. 1 general store. Pop., under 50. ASSAMETQUAGAN, a river in Bonaventure ASTON, a post village in Nicolet co.. Que., CO., Que., runs into the left bank of the Mata- on the Becancourt River, and on the Three pedia, thence falls into Bay Chaleurs. Rivers branch C.P.R., 17 miles from Victoria- ASSAMETQUAGHAN, a post office in Bona- ville It contains 2 stores. Pop. 200. venture CO., Que., on I.C.R., 72 miles from St. ASTON JUNCTION, a post village in Nicolet Flavie station. It has 1 Roman Catholic church, CO., Que., on the Becancourt River. Is the I store, 1 hotel, and is a hunting and fishing junction of I.C.R. and G.T.R., 19 miles south resort. Pop. 30. of Doucet's Landing, on the St. Lawrence ASSELSTINE, a post village in Lennox co., river, 2 miles from Acton and 3 miles from Ont., 3 miles from Ernestown. on the G.T.R., St. Wenceslas. The inhabitants are all Roman II miles east of Napanee. It contains 1 woollen Catholic. It contains 1 store, 1 hotel, 1 saw mill, post office, and several stores. Pop., un- mill, 1 cheese and butter factory, and 1 tele- der 100. graph office. Pop. 100. ASSINIBOIA (area, 88,879 sq. miles). This ASTORVILLE, a post settlement on Lake district, now merged in the new Provinces of Nosbonsing, adoining Lake Nipissing (to the Alberta and Saskatchewan, was in May, 1882, eastward), 7 miles from Callander Station, on created out of the Northwest Territories, with the G.T.R. (North Bay div.). It has 1 Epis- its seat of provisional government at Regina, copal church, 1 general store, and 2 saw mills. on the line of the C.P.R. As it now disappears Pop., under 50. from the map as a territorial district of the ASTURA(^AMICOOK, a lake in Saguenay co., Dominion, only an historic interest is served by Que., has its outlet in the River Manicouagan, recording what was once its geographical limits. about 40 miles from its mouth in the St. Law- " It was situate between the meridians 49° and rence. 52° N. lat., or from the international boundary ASTWOOD. a ranching and farming settle- on the confines of North Dakota and Montana, ment in Mackenzie dist.. Province of Saskat- to the southern limits of what was once the chewan, on the Etiomani River, 32 miles from district of Saskatchewan. Its eastern boundary Canora, a station on the Canadian Northern was the Province of iManit-oba (101° 39' W. RR., 24 miles north-west of Kamsack. Ion.), and its western boundary the once dis- ATCOOK, a small river running into the trict of Alberta, 111° W. The South Saskatche- Trois Pistoles, in Temiscouata co.. Que. wan in part flowed through it, and it was fur- ATHA, a post settlement in Ontario co., Ont., ther watered by the Qu'Appelle River and by on Duffin's Creek, 4 miles from Claremont, on many lakes. In 1901, its population was for C.P.R. Pop. 20. East Assiniboia 49,693, and for West Assiniboia ATHABASCA LAKE, or LAKE OF THE 17,692. It was traversed by the C.P.R.-, on HILLS, in the Province of Alberta (formerly which was also situate the towns of Qu'Appelle, Alhabasca dist., N.W.T.), is next to Slave Lake Hat. Moose Jaw, Swift Current, and Medicine in superficies, and is situated about 180 miles creating the new In March, 1903, when the Act south-west of it, lat. 59° N., Ion. from 106'' to Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan passed IW W. It is an elongated body of water, 230 the Dominion Parliament, the District of Assi- miles in length and averaging 14 miles in niboia ceased to exist. width. Near its south-west extremity, it re- ASSINIBOINE. a village in Macdonald co., ceives the Athabasca River, which rises in the Man., on the Assiniboine River, 4 miles from Rocky Mountains and flows north-east to join Poplar Point Station, on the C.P.R. (Winnipeg it after a long and tortuous course. Lake Atha- and Brandon dlv.), 41 miles north-west of basca discharges its waters northward by Winnipeg. It contains 2 churches (Methodist Slave River, and it communicates both through and Episcopal), and 1 store. The telegraph and the Slave Lake and Mackenzie River with the express office is at Poplar Point, this locality Polar Sea, and through Wollaston and Deer is v/ell adapted for grain and stock raising. Lakes, and ChurchiM River with Hudson IJay Pop. (1905), 383. The shores of the Athabasca to the northward ASSINIBOINE, a large river of the Pro- are high syenitic rock; those to the southward vinces of Saskatchewan and , rises are alluvial, but advancing eastwardly they about lat. 52° N., Ion. 103« W., and after flow- rise into barren sandy hills perfectly divested ing southerly about 130 miles, and receiving of vegetable growth. On Athabasca River, lat.. 280 I^OVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

54° 20' N., Ion. 116^ 3' E., is Fort Assiniboine, and 12 miles from Amherst. It has 2 churches, on the lake is Fort Chippewyan. Area of lake, 1 saw mill, 1 factory, 1 hotel, 1 tannery and 1 1,818,880 acres. store. Pop. 250. ATHABASCA, MOUNT, an elevated peak in ATHOL, a post settlement of Glengarry co., the Rockies, in B.C., 11,900 feet in height. It Ont., on the Scotch River, 3 miles from Max- is one of the monarchs among the lofty peaks ville Station, on the Ottawa and Montreal div. in the province by the- Pacific Coast, of the G.T.R., 44 miles from Ottawa. It con- ATHABASCA PASS, a pass in the Rocky tains 2 churches (Presbyterian and Congrega- Mountains, B.C., between Mounts Brown and tional), 1 store, and 1 cheese factory. Pop. 100. Hooker, which leads from the Prov. of B. C. ATIKOKAN, a post office in Rainy River into the Prov. of Alberta. dist., north-western Ont., and a divisional sta- ATHABASKA, the portion of the Northwest tion on the Port Arthur & Winnipeg div. of Territories not included in the new provinces the Canadian Northern RR., 140 miles north- of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and lying to the east of Fort William, at the head of Lake eastward. Area (1906), 25,030 sq miles, of Superior. which 525 sq. miles are water. ATKIN, a post office in Lambton co., Ont., ATHABASKA LANDING, a post village in 41^ miles from Inwood Station, on the Michigan Edmonton dist, Prov. of Saskatchewan, on Central RR. (St. Clair division). north Athabaca River, und 98 miles from ATKINSON, a small post settlement in Fron- Edmonton, is the port of embarkation for Les- tenac co., Ont., on the River St. Lawrence, 6 ser Slave Lake, Peace and Mackenzie Rivers. miles from Gananoque Junction Station on the It contains 1 Anglican church, 4 stores, 2 G.T.R. It contains 3 churches (2 Methodist and hotels, 2 saw mills, a branch of the Imperial 1 Presbyterian), 1 rolling mill and 1 cheese Bank, and telegraph office. Pop. 250. factory. Pop. 30. ATHABASCA RIVER. See Big Athabasca. ATKINSONS, a settlement in Cumberland co., ATHALMER, a post office in West Kootenay N.S., 31/^ miles from Greenville, a station on the dist., B.C., on the Columbia River, between LC.R. Windermere and Golden, the latter a station on ATLANTA, a post office in Kings co., N.S., the main line of the C.P.R., between Glacier 2 miles from Sheffield Mills Station, on the Kingsport branch of the Dom. Atlantic and Field. ,^ ^. , RR., a ATHELSTAN, a post village in Huntingdon few miles north-east of Kentville. the CO., Que., on the Hinchinbrooke River, on ATLANTIC OCEAN, one of the five great G.T.R. (Massena Springs branch), 56 miles hydrographical divisions of the globe, occupies southwest of Montreal, and on the St. Law- an immense longtitudinal valley, and extends rence & Adirondack RR., about 4 miles from from the Arctic Circle on the north to the Huntingdon. It contains 1 Presbyterian church, Antarctic Circle on the south, bounded west by agri- flour mill, oatmeal mill, cheese factory, the coast of America to Cape Horn, and thence cultural implement factory, 2 stores and tele- by a line continued on the same meridian to settled graph office. The neighborhood is well the Antarctic Circle, and east 'by the shores and the farms well cultivated, the land being of Europe and Africa to the Cape of Good worth from $20 to $75 per acre. Pop. 3o0. Hope, and thence prolonged to the meridian ATHENS, a post office and summer resort in of Cape Agulhas till it meets the Antarctic Lake, Leeds co., Ont., on or near Charleston Circle. Its extreme breadth is about 5,000 and on the Brockville, Westport and N.W.R.R., miles, and its area is computed at 30,000,000 6 17 miles from Brockville. It contains square miles. The North Sea or German churches, 1 bank, 1 printing and newspaper Ocean, the Carribean Sea, and the Irish Sea plan- office, 14 stores, 2 hotels, 1 lumber and 2 form portions of the Atlantic. Its principal ex- ing mills, 1 woollen factory, telegraph and gulfs are, in Europe, the Bay of Biscay; in press offices. Pop. 1,000. Africa, the Gulf of Guinea; in America, the ATHERLEY, a thriving post village in On- Gulf of Mexico and th» Gulf of St. Lawrence. tario CO., Ont., on the narrows of Lake Simcoe, The chief Islands are, in Europe, the British with a station on the' G.T.R., at Atherley Isles and Iceland; in Africa, the Azores, Junction, 3 miles from Orillia. It contains 2 Madeira and Canary Islands, and the Archi- churches (Anglican and Methodist), telegraph pelago of the Gulf of Guinea; in the New and express office, 2 stores and 1 hotel. Pop. World, the Antilles, Newfoundland, and the 300. islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The chief . , ,^ ATHERLEY JUNCTION, a station, at the affluents are, in Europe, the Rhine, Loire and Lake Couchiching, in Simcoe co., Ont., Tagus; in Africa, the Senegal, Niger and foot of Nortn on the Lindsay & Midland and Toronto & Congo; and in America, the St. Lawrence, Bay branches of the G.T.R., 3 miles from Oril- Mississippi, Orinoco, Amazon and La Plata. lia, and 88 miles north of Toronto. The bed of the Atlantic is very unequal in ATHERTON, a post village in Norfolk co., elevation, in some places rising an immense Ont., 3 miles from Delhi Station, on the G.T.R. sand bank to within a few fathoms of the It has a Methodist church. Pop. 80. surface, and in others sinking to unfathomable ATHLONE, a post village in Simcoe co., depths. The most extensive banks are those Ont., on a branch of the Nottawasaga River, of Newfoundland, the Dogger bank in the 5 miles west of Tottenham, on the G.T.R. German Ocean, and the Agulhas bank off the (Hamilton and Allandale div.), 5 miles south south point of Africa. The minimum depth on of Beeton. It contains Roman Catholic, Pres- the banks of Newfoundland is 60 feet. The byterian and Methodist churches, flour and German Ocean varies in depth from 66 to 500 saw mills, hotel and general store. Pop., abour feet. In many places the Atlantic is over 13,- 200. 000 feet deep, and in lat. 15° 3' S.. Ion. 23° 14' ATHOL, a post village in Cumberland co., W. (15» E. of the coast of Brazil) Sir James N.S., on the I.C.R., 1 mile from Athol Station, Rosa had no soundings with a line of 4,000 LOVELIv'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 281 fathoms (27,000 feet, or nearly 5i miles). In, and 3 miles from C. N. Ry. It has a Methodist the Antarctic ocean Sir James Ross found the church and 1 cheese factory and 1 store. The depth to be generally 2,000 feet; but on one land is well adapted for mixed farming. Pop. occasion a line of 24,000 feet failed to reach 100. the bottom. Fish are met with in greater ATWOODS BROOK, a post office in Shel- abundance in the North Atlantic than in the burne co., N.S., and a station on the Halifax South. In the latter there are only whale and Southwestern Ry., 2V2 miles from Barring- fisheries, while in the former there are the ton Passage. It contains 3 churches (Methodist cod fisheries of Newfoundland, the herring fish- and Baptist Union), and a telephone office. eries of Great Britain, the pilchard fisheries in Pop. 125. the British Channel, and the whale fisheries of AUBERT GALLION, a post village and parish - Greenland, etc. The Gulf stream in the North in Beauce co.. Que., on the Chaudiere River, Atlantic is the circulatory system, flowing from 9 miles east of St. Victor de Tring Station, on the Gull of Mexico, along the eastern shores tut Quebec Central RR. It has 2 churches of the United States. The North Atlantic is (Roman Catholic and Episcopal), 5 stores, 1 new traversed by countless steamers connecting hotel, and 1 flour mill, on the Pozer River, with United States and Canadian ports. where there is an active pulp wood industry. ATL.IN, a post village in the Cassiar district In the vicinity there are ten cheese factories. in northwest section of B.C., south of Yukon Pop., about 2,500. territory, and on Atlin Lake. It is connected AUBIGNY, a settlement in Provencher co., with the White Pass & Yukon Ry. by steamers Man., on tfce Red River 21/0 miles from Silver plying between this place and Carcross in Plains, a station on the Canadian Northern Yukon Territory. It contains 3 churches (Epis- RR. It has 1 Roman Catholic church, 1 French copal, Roman Catholic and Presbyterian), 10 school, and 1 general store. Pop. 150. stores, 7 hotels, 3 saw mills, 1 brick' vyard, 1 AUBREY, a post village in Chateauguay co.. branch bank, express, telegraph ofiaces, and 1 Que., on the English River, and a station (1^ printing office issuing weekly newspaper. miles distant), on the Ottawa and Swanton this of Placer mining Is carried on largely at division of the G.T.R. , 5 miles south east place about ^ of the placer gold of the Province Howick Jet. and 6 miles northwest of Holton. coming from here. The town also contains an It has 2 general stores, 3 shops, 2 carriage hospital, government buildings, skating and factories, 2 blacksmith shops. Pop. 200. curling rinks; there is also good hunting to be AUBURN, a post village in Huron co., Ont., found. Pop. of dist., 2,500. on the Maitland River, ^Vz rciles from Blyth, ATLIN LAKE, a body of water in the north- on G.T.R. It contains 4 churches (Presbyterian, west section of B.C., on the borders of British Methodist, Episcopalian and Lutheran), 2 gen- Columbia and Yukon Territory. It lies a few eral stores, 2 tailor shops and other shops, 1 miles south-east of Lake Bennett, across which saw mill, 1 telegraph office. Pop. 400. passes the White Pass and Yukon RR., on its AUBURN, a post office in Queens co., P.B.I. route into Yukon from Skagway, Aalska and to It is reached via Charlottetown. White Horse, Yukon. It is in an important AUBURN, a post village in Kings co., N S., gold mining region (Atlin) in tha northwest on the Annapolis River, and Dominion Atlantic angle of B.C. Its area is 219,520 acres. Ry. It is a farming district, but has also a ATTERCLIFFE, a post settlement in Lincoln considerable expert tr de in fruits and dairy CO., Ont, on the Welland River, l^^ miles from produce. It contains 2 churches (Episcopal Attercliffe Station, on the Michigan Central and Methodist), 2 stores, 1 blacksmith shop, 2 Ry. It has 3 churches (2 Methodist and 1 public schools and 1 boarding school. Pop. 400. "Disciples of Christ"), 2 stores, 1 hotel. Pop. AUBURN. Halton co., Ont. See Hornby. 100. AUBURNDALE, a post office in Lunenburg ATTERCLIFFE STATION, a post village in CO., N.S., 4 miles from Bridgewater, a station Haldimand co., Ont., on Michigan Central and on the Halifax & Southwestern Ry. C.P.R., 5 miles from Grand River, and oVs miles AUBURN MILLS, a stat'on on the Peterboro from Dunnville, which is supplied by and Lakefield branch of the G.T.R., In Peter- natural gas from Attercliffe Station. It con- boro' CO., Ont., 2 miles north of Peterboro' and tains 2 churches (Evangelical and Methodist), 7 milrs Fouth of Lakefield. 2 mills, large brick works, 3 stores, 1 hotel, a AUBURNTON. a post settlement in the dis-

large warehouse and cheese factory, telegraph trict of Assiniboia East. Prov, - of Sask., near and express offices. Pop. 250. Oxbow, on the Estevan branch of the C.P.R., 7 ATTIKONAK LAKE, in northern Quebec Pro- miles from Alameda. vince, situate to the east of Lake Ashuanipi, AUCKLAND, a station in Comp+on cc, Que., both of which are drained by the Hamilton on the Maine Central Ry., 3 miles from St. River north-eastward into Lake Melville, thence Malo, close to the New Hampshire border, and across Labrador Peninsula into Hamilton Inlet, about 20 miles south of Cookshire. in the northern Atlantic. Its area is 212,000 AUDET, a parish and village settlement in acres. Lake Megantic co.. Que., 10 miles from Lake ATTWOOD, a post village in Perth co., Ont., Megantic, a station on the C.P.R., 69 miles on the G.T.R. It contains 4 churches (Baptist, north-east of Sherbrooke. It has a Roman Methodist, Presbyterian and Church of Eng- Catholic church, 2 stores and 2 saw and grist land), 17 stores, 2 hotels, and 2 mills (sawing mills. Pop. of parish, 411, and planing), 1 printing office, 1 telegraph and AUDLEY, a post settlement in Ontario co., 1 express office and branch of the Bank of Ont., 5 miles northwest of Whitby, on the G.T. Hamilton. Pop. 700. R. It contains a Methodist church. Pop. 50. ATWELL, Macdonald co., Man., a small post AUDREY, a post settlement In the Province settlement, 30 miles northwest of Winnipeg, 7 of Saskatchewan (southeast angle of former miles from Marquette Station, on the C.P.R., dist. of Assa., N.W.T.), on Thunder Creek, 10 282 LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

miles from Carievale or Carnduff stations, on AUSTIN, a post village in Portage la Prairie the Napinka and Estevan braneh of the C. P. CO., Man., on the C.P.R. It possesses 5 churches R., 40 to 50 miles east of Napinka, Man. It (Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, has church service in school house (Methodist Baptist and Methodist), 12 stores, 2 temperance and Presbyterian). Pop., under 75. hotels, 1 mill, 3 implement shops and express AUGHRIM, a post office in Lambton co., and telegraph offices at station. Pop. 250. Ont, on the River Sydenham, 6 miles from AUVERGNE, a post settlement in Portneuf Alvinston, on the St. Clair branch Michigan CO., Que., on Ste. Anne River, 11 miles from

Central Railway, and 9 miles from Bothwell, Portneuf Station, on the C.P.R. , 35 miles west on the G.T.R. of Quebec City. It has 1 Roman Catholic AUGSBURG, a post village in Renfrew co., church (Ste. Christine), 3 stores, 1 saw mill Ont., 2 miles from Bonnechere River and and 1 wood pulp mill. Pop. of parish, 10() Mud Lake, also near the Ottawa and' Parry families. Sound branch of the G.T.Ry., the nearest sta- AUX SABLES, a river in Lambton co,, Ont., 4i^ tion being that of Eganville miles distant. near Lake Huron, into which it falls. It contains 3 churches (Evangelical and 2 Lu- AVALANCHE, MOUNT, in West Kootenay theran), and 2 schools. Pop. 50. dist., B.C., in the range of the Dog Tooth AUGUSTE, a lake in Portneuf co.. Que. Mountains, near Glacier, a station on the C. AUGUST LAKE, a lake af Frontenac co., P R. main line, between Revelstoke and Ont., well supplied with bass and other fresh Donald, on the Columbia River. AVALON, a large peninsula forming the AUGUSTINE COVE, a post village in Prince south-east part of Newfoundland, having Trin- CO., P.E.I., 3 miles from Cape Traverse, on the ity Bay on the north and Placentia Bay on P.E.I. Ry. It contains 1 store, 1 saw and 1 the south. grist mill. Pop. 26. AVENING, a post village in Simcoe co., Ont., AUGUSTON, a farming settlement in Grey on Mad River, and on the Beeton and Colling- CO., Ont., 6y2 miles from Shelburne Station, on wood division of the G.T.R., 19 miles from tho C.P.R., 12 miles north of Orangeville Jet. Ocr'ngwood, and % rri'e from station. It con- Horning's Mills is the nearest post office. Pop., tains 1 telegraph office, 1 church, 1 store, 1 under 20. hotel, 1 saw mill, 1 shingle mill, cheese fac- AULAC, a settlement in Westmoreland co.. tory and collar and cuff factory and one of the N.B., on the I.C.R., 6 miles from Amherst, and fir est ?rain markets in the district. Pop. 300. 3 miles from Aulac Station. The post office is AVERY'S PORTAGE, a post village in York Pointe Bute. It contains 2 churches called de CO., N.P., V2 a mile fr m I.C.R. station at (Methodist and Baptist), 3 stores, 1 hotel and Astle's Crossing, 42 miles north of Fredericton. telegraph and express officps. Pop. 400. It contains 1 store, and a telegraph and express, AULAC, or COLE'S ISLAND. Westmoreland of^ce. Pop. 94. CO.. N.B. See Westmoreland Point. AVIGNON, or ST. ALEXIS DB MATAPE- AULD, a post settlement in Essex co., Ont., DIAC, a post village in Bonaventure co., 7 miles and a station on the Amherstburg branch of from Matapedia, on the Intercolonial RR., 12 the Michigan Central Ry., 5 miles from Am- miles from Campbellton, N.B. It has 1 Roman herstburg. Catholic church, convent and model schools, AULD'S COVE, a post office in Guysboro' seA-eral saw mills and grist mill and cheese CO., N.S., with a station on the I.C.R., near factories. Bank at Campbellton. Pop. 1,500. Cape Porcupine. It contains 1 store. 1 hotel, 1 AVOCA, a post settlement in Argenteuil co.. Baw and grist mill and 1 telephone office. Que., 6 miles from Point au Chene railway AULNAIES, RIVIERE DElS, a small stream stathion on the C.P.R. It has 3 churches (Pres- In Portneuf co,, Que., rises in several small byterian, Baptist and Episcopal), 1 store, 1 lakes and falls into the Batiscan. school, grist and saw mill?. 3 cheese fac- AULNES, RIVIERE DES, a small stream in tories, with telegraph and express office at Chicoutimi co.. Que., the outlet of Lake Keno- Point au Chene. Pop. 400. gamlchiche into The Riviere aux Saumons. It AVON, a post settlement in Elgin co., Ont., Winds among alders for a course of 9 miles. 6 miles from Springfield, on the Michigan Cen- Hence its name. tral Ry. It contains 1 Methodist church, 2 AULTSVILLE, a thriving post village in stores, 1 waggon and 2 blacksmith shops and Stormont co., Ont., on the north shore of the 1 cheese factory. Pop. 150. St. Lawrence, with a station on the G.T.R., AVON, a beautiful river cf Nova Scotia, rises 83 miles west of Montreal. It contains 1 tele- in a small lake near the head waters of thq graph office, 3 churches, 1 telephone office and Chester, a river flowing into the Atlantic, and 1 cheese factory. Pop. 450. runs N.N.E. into the Minas Basin. Total AURAN, a small and prettily situated lake in length about 30 miles. It receives the tributary Bruce eo., Ont. waters of the Kennetcook, St. Croix and Cog- AURIGNY, a post office in Gaspe dist, Que., magun Rivers, and is navigable for a con- near L'Anse a la Cabane. siderable distance. The town of Windsor is AURORA, an incorporated town in York co., situated at the confluence of the Avon and the

Ont., on the G.T.R. , northern district, 24 miles St. Croix. north of Toronto. It contains 6 churches AVON, a post village in Megan tic co.. Que., (Methodist, English, Baptist, Presbyterian, Dis- near Black Lake station on the Quebec Cen- ciples and Salvation Army), 24 stores, 3 hotels, tral RR. 1 planing mill, 1 agricultural implement fac- AVON, a small river in Perth co., Ont., on tory, 1 tannery, 1 flour mill and 1 chopp-ing the course of which is the City of Stratford mill, 2 branch banks, and 1 shoe factory, J. M. and places of more or less importance. Walton & Co.'s private bank, 1 printing office, AVONBANK, a post settlement in Perth co., te'egraph and express offices. Tt l^as also elec- Ont., on the River Avon, 4% miles west of St. tric light and water works. Pop. 1,590. Paul's Station, on the G.T.R., 5 miles south LOVELUS GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 283 west of Stratford. It contains a Presbyterian Presbyterian church, saw mill, cheese factory, church, and 1 cheese and butter factory. Pop. general store, and post and telegraph office. 200. Pop. 100. AVONDALE, a post office in Queens co., AWBME, a post settlement In Macdonald co.» P.B.I., 2 miles from Hermitage, on the Murray Man., about 2 miles from Assiniboine River, Harbor branch of the P.E.I. Ry. and 5 miles from Treesbank, a station on the AVONDALrE (NORTH SIDE), a post office Can. Northern Ry., is a very sandy district, (named CATS COVE, now SALMON COVE) and but well adapted for agricultural purposes. fishing settlement in Harbour Main, Concep- Pop. 70. tion Bay dist., Nfld., l^^ miles from Avondale AXE LAKE, a post office in the district of station, on the Reid Nfld. RR., 5 miles from Parry Sound, Ont., 16 miles from Novar, on Jet., and 39 miles west of St. John's. the G.T.R. (Toronto & North Bay div.), and 7 It has 1 Roman Catholic church, 1 store, and miles south of Bear Lake, on the G.T.R. (Ot- 1 water-power lumber mill in the vicinity. tawa & Parry Sound div.). Pop., about 60. Pop. (1901), 808. AXE LAKE. Victoria CO., Ont. AVONDALE, a post settlement in Carleton AYER'S CLIFF, a post village in Stanstead CO., N.B., 6 miles from Hartland, on the C.P. CO., Que., on the Tomifoba River. It is a sta- R. It contains 1 Baptist church, 1 store, saw tion of the B. & M. R. It contains 1 Union and flour mills, wood work and box making church, 3 stores, 2 hotels, 1 saw and 1 grist factories and office of Dominion Express. Pop. mill, 1 carriage factory, printing office and ex- 150. press office. Pop. 600. AVONDALE, or NEWPORT LANDING, a sea- AYLEN LAKE, on the east side of Algonquin port town of Nova Scotia, in Hants co., on an National Park, on the borders of Renfrew & arm of Minas Basin, 2 miles from Windsor. Nipissing co's., Ont., north-west of Barry's It has 2 churches, 1 store, 1 hotel, and 1 tele- Bay and north-east of Madawaska stations on graph office. Pop. 400. the Ottawa and Parry Sound division of the AVONDALE STATION, a settlement on Bar- G.T.R. 19 Saskat- ney's River, Pictou co., N.S., on the I.C.R , AYLESBURY, a station in Prov. of miles from Auti^onish. Its harbor is Meri- chewan on the Prince Albert branch of the gomish. It contains 1 Preebyterian church, 1 C.P.R.. 64 miles north of Rpgina. 186 miles store, 1 mill, 1 carriage factory, and 1 tele- south of Prirc© Albert, and 96 miles south of graph and express office. Pop. 450. Saskatoon. AVONHURST, a post settlement in Qu'Appelle AYLESFORD, a post town at the head of dist., Prov. of Sask., 12 miles from McLean Annapolis River, in Kings co., N.S., on the Station, on the C.P.R., and 8 miles from the Dominion Atlantic Ry. It contains Baptist, famous Qu'Appelle fishing lakes. It contains 1 Methodist and Anglican churches, 10 stores, 1 Presbyterian church and is a splendid wheat hotel, lumber and grist mills, 1 pump factory, growing district. Pop. 90. telegraph and express offices, post office savings AVON LAKE, a pretty sheet of water in bank. Pop. 500. Lunenburg co., N.S., gives rise to the beauti- AYLESWORTH, a post office in Rainy River ful Avon River, which empties into Minas dist., north-west Ontario, 6 miles from Emo, Basin. The tide rises some 15 or 20 feet at the and a station on the Canadian Northern RR., river mouth. 44 mile^ east of Rainy River. AVONMORB, Stormont CO., Ont., on the AYLMER, an incorporated town in Wright Hough River and C.P.Ry., is situated' in midst CO., Que., is situated on Lake Deschaines, an of excellent farming district. It contains 4 expansion of Ottawa River. Has electric car churches (Hornerite, Methodist, Presbyterian svstem connecting the town with Ottawa city. and Anglican), 6 stores, 2 hotels, 2 mills (grist, Aylmer contains 4 churches (Episcopalian, saw and shingle), 1 sash and door and 1 but- Roman Catholic. Presbyterian and Methodist), ter and cheese factories, 1 bank (Ottawa), 1 10 stores, 5 hotels, 2 steam saw mills. 1 bank, printing office issuing "Avonmore Gleaner." telegraph and express offices and 1 school. It Pop. 4C0. is in a rich agricultural district. Pop. 2,291. AVONMORE, or CASE SETTLEMENT, a post AYI..MER, a lake in Mackenzie dist., N\v.T., settlement in King's co., N.B., a station on the immediately adjoining Clinton-Golden Lake, Central RR. of N.B., 3 miles from Belleisle v.'ith which it is connected by a small stream, Creek Station, on the same railway, and 4 miles and about 80 miles north of the north-east ex- from Norton, on the I.C.R. Pop., about 70. tremity of the Great Slave Lakes. It is about AVONPORT, a post village in Kings co., N.S., 50 miles in length and 30 in breadth. Its area on the River Avon and a station on the Dom- is 292,000 acres. miles southeast of Wolf- inion Atlantic Ry., 6 AYLMER, a lake of Compton co., Que. ville and 58 miles from Halifax. It contains AYLMER. a small lake in Wolfe co.. Que a Baptist church, 3 stores, 1 hotel and tile and area 5.222 acres. brick factories. Pop. (1901) 507. AVONRY, a post settlement in Lambton co., AYLMER WEST, an incorporated town in Ont,, on the Sydenham River, 7 miles south- Elgin CO., Ont., on Catfish Creek and a station west of Brigden, on the Michigan Central Ry. on the Grand Trunk Ry. It contains 6 churches It can also be reached from Sombra, a station (Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Disciples. on the Lake Erie and Detroit RR. It contains Episcopal and Mennonite), about 25 stores, 4 1 Methodist church, post office and flour mill. hotels, 2 flour mills, 1 stave factory, 1 cider Pop. 100. mill, 3 planing mills, and 2 saw mills, also AVONTON, a post settlement in Perth co.. boot and shoe, carriage, scale and 2 organ fac- Ont.. on the River Avon. S^^ miles northwest of tories, 3 branch banks, and 2 printing offices St. Paul's, on the G.T.R. (London & Stratford issuing weekly newspapers Pod. 2,500. branch), 5 miles from Stratford. It contains 1 AYLWIN, a pest vil age in Wright co.. Que. 284 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA.

AYL.WIN, a township on the western side of BACK LANDS GRAND RIVER (NORTH the Gatineau River. Its chief vililage is onazu- Side), a settlement in the dist. of St. George, bazua. There are also two post offices within Nfld. Pop (1901), 51. this township, and the celebrated fenazubazua BACK MEADOWS, a post village noted for Plains, an extensive tract of sand which was its beautiful scenery, situated between the once a rich pinery, known as the "Alder- Rivers Black Branch and Cariboo in Pictou shot" of Canada. Pop. 900. CO., N.S., on Oxford and Pictou branch of the AYR, an incorporated village in Waterloo I.C.R., 14 miles from Pictou, and 2 miles from CO., Ont., on the Nith River, 8 miles from post office. Pop. 225. Paris, 10 miles from Gait, on the C.P.R. It BACK RIVER, Hochelaga co.. Que. See contains 2 Presbyterian and 1 Methodist Sault-au-Recollet. churches, 8 stores, 2 good hotels. 2 flour mills, BACK, or GREAT FISH RIVER, in Mac- 4 factories, 1 bank, 1 printing office which kenzie dist., N.W.T., rises in Sussex Lake issues the "Ayr News," 2 express and 2 tele- north of Lake Aylmer, fiows north and north- graph offices. Ayr possesses a beautiful na- east through a granite and sandy region, tra- tural park on bank of the river which is the verses Lakes Peily and Garry, and enters a popular resort for picnicking and boating par- bay in the Arctic Ocean (north of Keewatin ties. Pop. 827. dist.), lat. 62° 7' 31" .N., Ion. 98° 39' 45" W. AYTON, a post settlement in Grey co., Ont., BACK SHORE, a post office in Pictou co., on the south brancii of the Saugeen River, N.S., 2y2l miles from River John station, on the and a station on the Georgian Bay and Lake I.C.R. It contains an Episcopal church and 3 Erie branch of the G.T.R., 10 miles from lobster canneries. Pop. 200. Harrison. Its port is Owen Sound. It contains BACK'S LAND, in the Polar regions of 5 churches (2 Lutheran, 1 Evangelical, 1 Pres- Franklin district, is a name applied to the byterian, and 1 Roman Catholic), 5 stores, 3 region around the Arctic Circle, between Ion. hotels, 1 flour mill, 1 saw mill, 2^ planing mills, 95° and 108^ W., explored by Captain Back, in 1 cider mill, 1 cordage factory, 1 brancn bank, 1818-37. telegraph and express offices, and a printing BACON COVE (Upper and Lower), a fishing office issuing a weekly newspaper. Pop. 500. settlement in Harbor Main dist., Nttd., at the AZILDA, a post office in Nipissing dist., Ont., head of Conception Bay, 42 miles from St. and a station on the main line of the C.P.R., John's Pop. (1901), 137. 7 miles west of Sudbury. BADDECK, a river of Nova Scotia, takes its BABINE LAKE, a considerable body of water rise near the source of the Middle River, in in Cassiar dist., B.C., on which there is a post what is called the Moose Forest Island of Cape of the Hudson Bay Co. It is reached from Breton, and flowing through a fine agricultural Victoria and Vancouver by steamer on the country, empties itself into St. Patrick's Chan- the Pacific to Port E«sington, at the mouth of nel, an arm of Bras d'Or Lake, at the town miles) thence up the river Skeena River (589 of Baddeck. It is frequented by salmon and then rail east- to Hazleton (150 miles), and by trout. ward' (65 miles), in all 800 miles. Babine Lake post town in Victoria co., N.S., lies west of Cross and Stuart Lakes. Its area BADDECK. a from Tona, or Grand Narrows Station, is 196,000 acres. See Nata-Punket. 12 miles north side BABINE RIVER, the outlet of Babine Lake, on the of Big Bras d'Or Lake, 40 in Cassiar dist, B.C., which empties north- miles from Sydney and 43 miles from Mabou. westward into the Skeena. It contains Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist BABINGTON, a liaml«t in Queens co., N.B., and Roman Catholic chnrches, 7 stores, 2 near Young's Cove Road, on the Central Ry. hotels, post office savings bank, and Union Halifax, telegraph and express offices. of New Brunswick. Bank of lona BACCALIEU, a settlement in the dist of Bay- A steam ferry connects it with and Grand It is popular resort. Pop. de-Verde, Nfld. Pop. (1901). 19. Narrows. a summer BACCARO, a post village In Shelburne ;co., 1,000. N.S., 15 miles from Barrington Passage, the BADDECK BAY. a post settlement on the terminus of the Halifax & Yarmouth Ry. It north side of the bay of that name, 3 miles contains 1 Methodist church, 4 stores, and 1 east of Baddeck, Victoria co., N.S., 12 miles lobster cannery. Pop. 200. from Grand Narrows Station, on the I.C.R. BACCARO POINT, a fishing settlement in It possesses a school house, temperance hall Shelburne co., N.S., on the sea coast adjoin- and 2 or 3 blacksmith shops. Pop. 200. ing Cape Sable Island, 12 miles from Shel- BADDECK BRIDGE, a post settlement in point) burne. A lighthouse on this exhibits a Victoria co., N.S., 4 miles from Baddeck. The level fixed red light, 49 feet above the of the nearest station is Alba, on the I.C.R. Pop., sea. Pop., about 225. about 300. BACK BAY. a post village on an arm of Bay BADDECK RIVER, a settlement near the of Fundy, in Charlotte co., N.B., 8 miles from Bras d'Or Lakes in Victoria co.. Cape Breton 6t. George, the nearest railway station, it Island, N.S., on Gillis Brook and the North contains 1 church (Dis. of Christ). 3 stores, 1 Branch River, 12 miles from Grand Narrows small hotel. Its chief industry is that of fish- Station, on the I.C.R., 33 miles south-west of ing. Pod. 200. North Sydney Jet. It has 1 Presbyterian BACK COVE, a fishing settlement in the church, 1 board and shingle mill, and 1 bank district of Fogo, on Fogo Island, Nfid. It is Pop., under 100. separated from Fogo Harbor merely by a nar- (Merchants of Halifax). row neck of land. Pop. (1901), 48. BADDELY, a river in Chicoutimi co.. Que., BACK LANDS, a post office in Antigonish named after Its explorer, Lieut. Baddely. It is CO., N.S. Afton, on the I.C.R.. is the nearest between 7 and 8 miles long, and runs into Lake railway station. Kenogamichiche.