DCHP-3

Thousand Islands

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a widely known vacation region between Brockville and Kingston in the St. Lawrence River.

Quotations

1785
They may well call this place the Thousand Islands for the river is full of them and many of them the most beautiful objects that it is possible to imagine.
1820
We had a pleasant voyage down this noble river, where the "Thousand Islands" present a beautifully romantic prospect of land and water. . . .
1923
You must recall the camp on the headland, the run down the Bay of Quinte, the thridding [threading] of the Thousand Islands and what we found there.
1966
Business in the 1000 islands area has picked up again.