St. Catharines.

Lines read at the Welland House, St. Catharines, at a banquet given to the members in attendance at the Oddfellows' Grand Lodge.

St. Catharines famed for mineral waters

And for the beauty of her daughters,

For some do worship at the shrines

Of the fair St. Catharines.

St. Catharines your greatness you inherit

From the genius of a Merritt,

You still would be a village dreary

But for this canal from lake Erie.

For on its bosom there doth float

Full many a ship and steamboat,

Brings world's commerce to your doors

And many gifts on you it pours.

Among its many great rewards

It gives you dry docks and ship yards,

To drive your mills great water power

It doth give you as a dower.

Since we above lines did compose,

Through new canal vast stream it flows,

The lock gates at the hill at Thorold

Can not be equaled in the world.