Description
a- Magazine - Route Champlain International Vacation Guide
-published annually by Le Droit (Ottawa Newspaper)
-50 cents
Leaflets showing map of southern ontario and north-eastern Ontario (e.g. Lake Nipissing area).
Topics include: "Lake Nipissing", "The French River", "North Bay", "Alumette" Island, "Mattawa", "Trans-Canada Highway No. 17", "Canadian Pacific Railway", "Jesuit Missionaries", "Iroquois", "Samuel de Champlain", "Lake Talon", "Callander", "Dionne Home", "No. 11 Highway", "Temiskaming", article on "What to do... What to See in the North Bay District", "theatres (Capitol, Melrose and Bay)", North Bay sports ("Fastball... at Memorial Gardens", "Ferguson Street", "ice arena", "professional wrestling"), "Highway 63", North Bay's "Granite Club (artificial ice for Curling)", "The Green Lantern", "The Marine Room", "McCoy's Hotel", "seaplane base operates from Trout Lake", "alongside the Granite Club is a new outdoor theatre", North Bay "fishing" ("Government Dock", "pickerel, pike or pan fish", "Ontario Government Fish Hatchery... See speckled trout being reared... genial George Williams of the Department of Lands and Forests in charge"), "Airport Road", "North Bay Golf and Country Club", "Lavasse Road", "Champlain Park now operated by the north bay Lions", "beach", "Lavasse River", "fur traders", "Timagami", North Bay streets ("Main St.", "Fisher St.", "Front St."), "Ontario Northland", "Ontario Northland Boat Lines", "Chief Commanda", "Manitoulin Islands", "drilling operations... in the search for uranium and the rare metals, tantalum and columbium", Sturgeon Falls ("Sturgeon River", "Recollet Fathers", "Hudson Bay Company", "trappers and coureur de bois"), "the Nipissings".
b-n Pen map drawings found in the magazine (possibly made by magazine donor).