Equally significant are the words of the present Governor General, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, at a meeting in ottawa in March, 1913. "I do not think," he said, "that Canada realises what an asset the nation possesses in the parks.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee
It was on such land as this, in ottawa County, that the writer grew cauliflower very successfully between the years 1870 and 1884. The land had but recently been cleared of its timber, and it seldom received any other fertilizer than the heavy June-grass sod which was turned under.
"The Cauliflower"
A. A. Crozier
These have therefore been transferred to ottawa and are now conducted under Dominion regulations.
"History of Farming in Ontario"
C. C. James