DCHP-3

Grand River

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an early name of the Ottawa River, taken over from the French-Canadian explorers.

Quotations

1792
[We] saw the junction of the Ottawa or Grand River which divided Upper and Lower Canada with the St. Lawrence. . . .
1883
It is quite a common thing when you are speaking to these backwoods river-men about the Ottawa, for them to ask "is it the Grand River you mean?" for by this and no other name will they recognize and designate it.
1933
How long since they had left behind the huge rafts of square timber . . . on the smooth bosom of "the grand river," as it was often called. . . .