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Identifier: ournortherndist00onta (find matches)
Title: Our northern districts
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands Hardy, A. S
Subjects: Ontario, Northern Land settlement
Publisher: Toronto, Warwick Bros. & Rutter
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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THE RAINY RIVER DISTRICT. This name is applied to that part of western Algoma, bounded on the southbv Minnesota, west by Manitoba, and east by the height of land west of LakeSuperior. It gets its name from the Rainy river, which forms the boundarybetween Ontario and the United States. The area of the district is almost 22,500square miles, and it is estimated to contain about 600,000 acres of good agricul-tural land, principally in the valley of the Rainy river. This river runs forabout 80 miles through a rich alluvial tract. Nearly all the land fronting on theriver on the Canadian side is suitable for settlement. The arable area runs backfrom the river some ten to twenty miles, the soil being clay and clay loam witha little gravel and sand. There are occasional swamps timbered with tamarac,spruce and cedar, that require some surface draining before they are fit for agri-culture. The whole of this tract is remarkably free from stones and rocks. Climate and Crops. The climate is similar

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