| "One may observe, on approaching Hull by the Alexandra bridge, an extensive
cut bank of sand and gravel, between the E. B. Eddy Co.'s sulphide Mill
and the end of the bridge, and between Laurier Ave., and the river.
This is the place from which the late Edward Haycock procured sand for
building purposes on the Eastern and Western Blocks of the Departmental
buildings, at Ottawa. During the excavation of this bank, a great
many Indian relics were discovered, such as womens' knives, arrow-heads,
tomahawks and pottery, but no description of this pottery is, obtainable.
Here, according to white and red tradition, many bloody encounters took
place between parties ascending or descending the river." (1909:94)
T.W. Edwin Sowter
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