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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 5

tion. l'or long stretches the houses are so numerous as to form practically continuous villages on both sides of the river. At short intervals the line of houses is broken by a village, which includes a wharf, several shops, and inevitably a church. Then the village straggles off into a line of white cottages with green jalousies. The' inhabitants of Quebec are a frugal, honest, hospitable people, knowing little of the outside world, and caring less. The Mimfee? of church buildings fringing the river is remarkable, and indicates the devotion of the French-Canadians to the Roman Catholic Church. These buildings are all of a type—roof of red or other warm tint, and glittering spire, which dominates the other buildings in the village. The closeness of settlement along the river is partly accounted for by the fact that it was the .FrenchCanadian custom for each child to :nt a part of the farm (and of the river frontage), and as the farms were not very large to begin with the subdivisions soon reached the minimum required to support a family. AIDS TO NAVIGATION". The St. Lawrence forms, with the gioat lakes, one of the finest inland waterways of the worjd. Below Montreal the river is tidallv navigable by vessels of any draught: Between Quebec and Montreal dredging has given a ship channel of 30ft. Above Montreal there is an extensive canal system round rapids and waterfalls, giving access to the great lakes. The river is well supplied with mils to navigation. In the dredged portions lights are arranged in pairs of leading lights on foundations sufficiently high and solid to resist the pressure of ice movement, and there is an elaborate system of fog alarms, gaslighted and other buoys, as well as telegraphic, wireless, and telephonic ■ communication, storm signals weather and ice-reporting stations, and a lifesaving service. The St. Lawrence was discovered by •lactones ('artier, commissioned bv the King of France to explore and trade on the American coast. Cartier circled the whole gulf ill loot but missed the entrance to the river. Two years later he named a bay on the north shore of the gulf the Feast of St. Lawrence, and tne name gradually extended to the whole 1 river, fn September of the same year he reached the site of Quebec, and in ■ October the site of Montreal. French navigators had by 101(1 taken possession ' of the whole river system as far west as Lake Huron in the name of the King 1 of France. It became British liv the ■ treaty, of I'aris in 171)3.

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