Abbott's Guide to Ottawa and Vicinity/Street Car Trips

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STREET CAR TRIPS.

Britannia-On-the-Bay, (7 miles). Auditorium, Band, Bathing, Boating and Fishing. Take car with Maltese cross, or red and white light.
Aylmer (9 miles), (see p. 11). At Queen's Park, 2 miles further, will be found a Yacht Club, Boating, Band, Maze, Roller Skating Rink, Moving Picture Show, etc. Take car under Dufferin Bridge (opposite Chateau Laurier), thence over Alexandra bridge to province of Quebec, through the city of Hull, past the E. B. Eddy Company's match factory and mills, Golf Club, Country Club, Rivermead Golf Club, and Deschenes, to Aylmer, thence to Queen's Park. (For fares and service see p. 48).
Chaudiere Falls (1 mile). Take car with green square, or green light, going west. After passing the Water Works commences the district destroyed by the great fire of 1900, thence, passing through lumber yards, to the falls. Car line ends 200 yards further, in the centre of the E. B. Eddy Cmpany's buildings. Connection may be made close by for Aylmer, etc. (see above).
Rockcliffe (2 miles), and Rifle Range (3 miles). Take car with green square, or green light, going east, via Sussex st. past Printing Bureau, R. C. Cathedral, Archives, Mint, Water Street Convent, Earnscliffe, crossing Rideau river, passing Government House gates, through Rockcliffe Park, along edge of Ottawa River and McKay's Lake, to Rifle Range.
Sandy Hill. Take car with Maltese cross, or red and white light, past Court House, Ottawa University, residences of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Japanese Consul General, Sir Frederick Borden, Strathcona Park, and Protestant Hospital.


SCENE ON GATINEAU RIVER