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Rh attending the World's Fair, I made a trip east via. Detroit, Michigan, the City of the Straits, with its busy factories, and Toronto, the capital and leading commercial city of the Province of Ontario, with Montreal, the metropolis for the dominion, at the head of ocean navigation, and Ottawa, the capital of the Dominion of Canada, with its extensive lumber trade. Also Quebec, the capital of the Province of Quebec, with her large exports of lumber and shipbuilding industries, and then down the St. Lawrence river, which empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I then realized, with the combined trade of the cities south of the Great Lakes on the American side, what makes Chicago important, controlling the shipping of the Great Lakes through Lake Michigan, and the commerce and