1851 Bytown Canada Directory

The County Town of the County of Carleton, is situated on the River Ottawa, in the Township of Nepean, Canada West. The Town is divided into two parts, known as the Upper and Lower Town. It is connected with the village of Hull, Canada East, by a handsome Suspension Bridge, and both that village and New Edinburgh, which is about a mile southeast of Bytown, may be considered, in a commercial point of view, as identical with the town. A railway to connect Bytown with Prescott is now in progress, and when completed (which will doubtless be at an early … Read more