Wright's Town, Lower Canada
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Wright's Town, also known as Wrightstown, Wright's Village, and Columbia Falls Village, was the first permanent colonial settlement in the Ottawa Valley, located at the north edge of the Chaudière Fal
A painting of the mill and tavern in Wright's Town, 1823
The whitewashed stone building in Wright's Town, seen above the Chaudière Falls, 1851
A painting of Hull and the Chaudière Falls in 1830 by Thomas Burrowes. Bytown, in its infancy, can be seen across the Ottawa River.
A plan of Wright's Town in 1844
Chaudière Falls
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The Chaudière Falls, also known as the Kana:tso or Akikodjiwan Falls, are a set of cascades and waterfall in the centre of the Ottawa-Gatineau metropolitan area in Canada where the Ottawa River narrow
Chaudière Falls in June 2006, at summer water levels
The Chaudière Falls and Chaudière Island in 1838 before damming.
The Royal party running the Chaudière timber slide on a timber crib, September 1901
Men with pickaxes chipping away at the ice of the Chaudière Falls, 1918