Canada; its Defences, Condition, and Resources Being a third and concluding volume of "My Diary, North and South"

CHAPTER V.

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Arrive at Cornwall--The St. Lawrence--Gossip on India--Aspect of the country--Montreal--The St. Lawrence Hall Hotel--Story of a Guardsman--Burnside--Dinner--Refuse a banquet--Flags--Climate --_Salon-à-manger_--Contrast of Americans and English--Sleighs--The “Driving Club”--The Victoria Bridge--Uneasy feeling--Monument to Irish emigrants--Irish character--Montreal and New York--The Rink--Sir F. Williams--Influence of the Northerners 71