Three Rivers

Three Rivers (Trois Rivières), capital of St Maurice county, Quebec, at the confluence of the St Maurice and St Lawrence, 95 miles by rail NE. of Montreal. It has a large trade in lumber, over $1,000,000 being invested in mills and booms where logs are accumulated on the St Maurice; and it manufactures boots and shoes, and great numbers of car-wheels and stoves from the bog-iron ore of the vicinity. Three Rivers was founded by Champlain in 1634; a severe battle fought here on 16th June 1776 proved disastrous to the Americans. The city is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. Pop. 9296.—THREE RIVERS, Michigan, on the St Joseph River, 128 miles by rail E. of Chicago, has valuable mineral springs; pop. 3500.