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LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 615 LYNN, a post village in the western part of berland CO., N.B., 17 miles from Newcastle on Colchester co., N.S., on the Herrington River, the I.C.R. 18 miles from Spring Hill Jet. station on the LYTTON, a post settlement in Yale dist., B I.C.R. (Cumberland co.), 17 miles from Am- C, and a station on the C.P.R., 155 miles cast herst. It has 1 Methodist church and 1 gene- of Vancouver. Pop., 200. ral store, With express and telegraph oflBces at MACCUE, a post settlement in Lanark co.. Spring Hill. Pop.. 148. Ont., 6 miles from Perth, a station on the C-.P.R. LYNN, .a never-failing river supplied almost MACDONALD, post entirely from springs, m NoifolK co., Onr., on a settlement in Portage la Prairie co., Man., "Which is situated the pretty village of Lynn on Rat Creek, and on the C.P.R. (No. Valley. It empties into Lake Erie, and affords -Western branch), 10 miles north- west of Portage good water-power. See Lynn Valley. la Prairie. It contains 2 churches (Pres. and Meth.), LYNN CREEK, a post office in Vancouver 3 stores, 1 black- emifch shop, city, B.C. 3 elevators, and express and tele- graph office. Pop., 70. LYNNFIELD, a post settlement in Charlotte MACDONALD, a post settlement in Lennox CO., N.B., 16 miles from St Stephen, a station CO., Ont., 10 miles from Napanee, on the G.T.R., on t'h« C.P.R. and New Brunswick Southern Hy. and 1 mile from Deseronto across Mohawk Bay! It contains 1 Methodist church and 1 cheese LYNN VALLEY, a post village in Norfolk factory. Pop., 200. CO., Ont., on the Lynn River, and a station MACDONAl,DS, a settlement in Pictou Port co., on the G.T.R., 4 miles north-west of N.S., 2 miles from Meadow Vale Station on Dover, on Lake Erie. It has flour and oat- the LC.R. meal mill and 1 cheese factory, besides tele- MACDONALD'S CORNER, phone office. Pop., 50. Cambridge parish, in Queens co., N.B., in LYNNVILLE, a post village in Norfolk co., the Was.hademoak River, a tributary of Ont.. 61^ miles from Simcoe Station, on the the St. John, 10 miles from Cody's Station, on the N.B.C. G.T.R., 8 miles north-west of Port Dover, on & Ry. Co.'s line, running northward from Norton, the Lake Erie. It contains 2 stores. Pop., 90. on I.C.R. (St. John & Moncton LYNX LAKE, a small lake in Muskoka dist., branchh The parish has 12 churches (6 Baptist, 3 Epis., Ont., on which is a settlement called "New- 2 Meth. and 1 R.C), 7 stores, 3 hotels, 2 flour 2 holm." It affords good trout fishing. and saw mills, and 2 wood working factories. Pop. of LYONS, a post settlement in Elgin co., Ont., parish (chiefly 21^ miles from Aylmer on the G.T.R. and Mi- engaged In farming and in the chigan Central Ry. Lakes coasting trade), about 1,000. LYON'S BROOK (formerly LOGAN'S TAN- MAODOUGALL, a post village in Prince co., P.E.I. NERY), a post settlement in Pictou co., N.S., , on Grand River, 3 miles from Rich- on the West Kivcr, and on the Oxford & Pictou mond, on the P. E. Island RE., 16 miles west branch of the I.C.R. Pictou is its port. It con- of Summerside. It has 1 Scotch Presbyterian tains 1 Presbyterian hall. 1 store, gris^t and saw church, 2 stores, 2 saw and grist mills, and 3 mills, 1 blacksmith shop and a tannery and car- lobster canning factories. Pop., about 200. riage factory. Pop., 200. MACDOUGALL LAKE, situate in Keewatln LYO^'SHAT.L •> po't settipnient in Souris dist., N.W.T., the source of Back River, which CO., Man., 8 miles from Killarney. on the flows into the Arctic Ocean. Area, 203,840 acres. C.P.R. (Napinka branch), 164 miles south-west MACDOUGALLS, a post settlement in West- of Winnipeg. Pop., 200. moreland CO., Ont., and a station on the Monc- LYSANDER, a post settlement in Megantic ton & Buctouche Rv., 17 miles from Moncton. CO., Que., on the Thames River, 10 miles from MACDOWALL (formerly WILLOUGHBY). a Lyster, on the G.T.R. 36 miles south-west of post village in Rosthern electoral dist.. Pro- It contains 1 Methodist church, Point Levi. vince of Saskatchewan, and a station on the mills. Lysander has 1 store, saw and grist Regina branch of the C.N.R., 18 miles from the River, magnificent water-power in Thames Prince Albert and 18 miles from Duck Lake, in and there is much pulp wood manufactured. a good farming region and centre for shipping Pop., about 150. cordwood. It has English and Presbyterian LYSTER, or STE. ANASTASIE DE NELSON, churches and 2 stores. Pop., about 175. a post village in Megantic co.. Que., on the MACEWEN. a post settlement in the dist. River Becancour. There are really two vil- of Alberta, Alta. lages under one municipal system, ^ a mile MACFARLANE, a post seHlement in Hum- from one another, one at the parish and one boldt dist., Sask., 40 miles from Strassbourg, at the station, that of the G.T.R., 37 miles on the Pheasant Hills branch of the C.P.R. from Quebec. It is also a station on the Lot- MACGREGOR, a post village In Macdonald biniere & Megantic RR., plying between Ly- CO., Man., a station on the C.P.R.. 22 miles west ster and St. Jean de Chaillons. It has 1 R.C. of Portage la Prairie, and 78 miles west of church, 6 stores, 5 saw mills. 1 box an-d trunk Winnipeg. It has 3 churches (Epis., Pres. and factory, 1 door and window frame factory, be- Meth.), 14 stores, 3 hotels, 1 bank. 1 printing sides telegraph, express and 2 telephone of- and newspaper office ("The Herald"), besides fices. Chief trade, lumber and pulp wood express and telegraph offices. Pop., 510. industry. Pop., of parish, about 2,500. MACINQUAE, a post settlement in York LYSTBR STATION, a station on the G.T.R, CO., N. B., 4 miles from Keswick, on the near Lyster village, in Megantic co.. Que., Woodstock branch of the C.P.R. 36 miles south-west of Point Levi (Quebec). It MACINTOSH MILLS, a post settlement In contains 4 stores. 1 hotel, saw mill, and tele- Leeds co.. Ont., 7 miles from Mallorytown, on graph and express offices. Pop., 100. the G.T.R. It contains 2 stores, 1 flour mill LYTTLETON, a post settlement in Northum- and 1 saw mill. Pop. 100. 616 LOVELL'S GAZETTEER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. MAOKAY LAKE, situate in Mackenzie dist., Pembroke. It contains 1 Roman Catholic N.W.T., west of Lake Aylmer. Area, 627,200 church, 1 store, 1 hoteil and telegraph and acres. express offices. Pop. 65. MACKENZIE, an unorganized district of the iviA^KVli^LE. a post settlement in Kings CO Canadian Dominion, set apart by Order of N.B., near Sussex, a station on the John and St. Council, Oct. 2, 1895, its boundaries being Moncton branch of the I C R defined December 18, 1897. Estimated area, MACLENNAN, a post village in Algoma dist., 562,182 square miles, of which about 30,000 square Ont., 2^ miles from Port Finlay, 30 miles east of miles are water. This vast area extends from the "Soo" (Ont.), where there is a good the 60th degree of latitude northward to Arctic Government wharf. MacLennan is situate 5^ miles waters; its eastern boundary is the 100th de- from Desbarats station, on the C P R gree of W. long., adjoining Keewatin dist., and 28 miles from Sault Ste. Marie. It has 1 Pres- its western is the Rocky Mountains which byterian church, 2 stores and a telegraph separate it from Yukon Territory. At its office. Pop., 50. south-west angle, the district abuts on the MACLEOD, a lake and fort in the Cariboo Prov. of British Columbia; while its southern dist. of B.C. Lat. 55° N., Ion. 123° 15' W. boundary is the northern boundary of Atha- AIACLEOD, a thriving town in the Prov. of basca, now incorporated in the Prov. of Al- Alberta, on the Old Man's River, and a sta- berta. The Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, tion (1 mile distant), on the C.P.R. (Crow's each with an area of some seven million acres, Nest branch, and on the Calgary and Mac- leod lie within Mackenzie district; besides Dubaunt section), 69 miles east of Crow's Nest. It Lake, with an area exceeding a million acres, Is the centre of the cattle and horse-raising and other large bodies of water, including industry of South Alberta, 15,000 head of stock Mackay Lake and Lac la Martre, each about having been shipped from it in 1905. It three-quarters of a million acres in extent. is the seat of the South Alberta judicial dis- Estimated population (1901), 5,216. ^^ ,^^® headquarters, for the region, of the*r*^^irN.W. Mounted MACKENZIE, a station on the main line of Police. It has 4 churches (R. C., Epis., Pres. and Methodist), the C.P.R., at the head of Lake Superior, in 19 stores, 3 hitels, 3 chartered banks, 2 printing Thunder Bay dist., Ont., 15 miles north-east and newspaper offices ("The Gazette" " of Port Arthur, and 3 miles from Fort William, and The Advance"), besides express MACKENZIE, a river of the N.W.T., one of and telegraph of- fices.