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Title: Sessional papers of the Dominion of Canada 1911
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Canada. Parliament
Subjects: Canada -- Politics and government 1867- Periodicals
Publisher: (Ottawa : s.n.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r probably 15 feet deep can be kept, equivalent to 1,100 c.f.s. for 150 days. Grand Lake Victoria is an important basin, because it will not only store a largequantity, but a rise much over 15 feet will allow of discharging toward Hudson bay. That is, in years of great flood the north Ottawa basin from Grand Lake Victoriaupwards, a territory of 4,500 square miles and also a portion of the Gatineau can besent toward Hudson bay and prevent gorging of the main stream through its settledportions. Map of Ottawa Valley. To begin an inventory of the useful and ornamental assets of this wild district, ageneral plan at a scale of 1 mile to an inch is under way. Upon this plan from time totime all information obtained will be plotted. That is the location of lakes, falls andrapids will be gradually secured, and the details between filled in, so that full informa-tion as to the horsepower, steadiness of power and raw materials nearby can eventu-ally be had from an inspection of the map. 19a—li
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OTTAWA lilTER STORAGE 5 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 19a Course of Ottawa River. The head of the Ottawa is Aleehegama lake, 150 miles due north ot Ottawa city.The river liows westward to the head of Lake Timiskaming, then 100 miles southwardslo Mattawa, theu 300 miles eastwards to Montreal, describing roughly three sides of arectangle. The following distances are in miles above the city of ilontreal, the eleva-tions are above mean low tide Atlantic:— Miles. Lake ilecliegama, the source TOO Barriere lake. TI. B. post 625 Kapitachuan tributary from north Back Bone lake, elevation, 1,045 618 Shoshokwau tributary from north Birch lake, elevation, 1.030 605 Grand Lake Victoria, elevation, 1,000 580 Wapusana lake, elevation, 980 Expanse and Quinze lakes, elevation. 850 475 Lake Timiskaming. elevation, 580 430 Long Sault rapids head 358 Seven league lake, elevation, 530 850 Les Erables rapids head 334 Mattawa, elevation, 500 320 Ottawa River Watershed. The Ottawa basin is 56,000 square miles in are

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