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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Cover is worn. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Ottawa Valley is an “island” with a separate identity that distinguishes it from all other parts of Canada. The Ottawa Valley accent and idiom its predominently Irish origins its geography eco- nomics lumbering saga and legends have all melded together to make the Valley unique on the Canadian landscape. Technically speaking the Ottawa Valley is the basin of the Ottawa River a mighty and ancient central continental waterway rising in Lake Capi- michigama about one hundred and fifty-five miles due north of the capital city. Beginning as a small stream out of the lake taking its curving and con- voluted course swelling and broadening as it goes the Ottawa travels some seven hundred miles to join the St. Lawrence just west of Montreal. Its original tumultuousness has been chastened by a number of hydroelectric dams and its original exuberance toned down by pulp and paper mill pollution spews. However by white-water canoeists and kayakers all over the world the Ottawa is still recognized as one of the most difficult challenges in existence. In its cataclysmic cavort from its headwaters to its termination the Ottawa descends one thou- sand one hundred and twenty-five feet over rapids and falls with such hauntingly evocative names as Culbute Paquette Calumet Sable Montagne Dargis Rocher-Fendu past Des Joachims (the Swisha in English) Chenaux Falls (the Snows in English) and Chats Falls (Shaw Falls in English). For residents of Ottawa and Hull Deschenes Rapids at Aylmer Quebec (where Pembroke tim- ber baron Fraser’s mill ruins still stand today) and Chaudi?re Falls (where the legendary giant Joseph Montferrand fought his most famous battle) com- pose the most familiar parts of the commuter’s (LL)