Abbott's Guide to Ottawa and Vicinity/Aylmer
AYLMER.
Named after Lord Aylmer, a former Governor General of Canada, and situated on Lake Deschenes beside the old highway from Montreal to the Upper Ottawa and the lumbering districts, this quaint little town is about 9 miles from Ottawa by road or electric car (for car service, see p. 48). Here many prominent Ottawans first saw the light of day. The ride alone is well worth the time spent, and in the town itself a visit should be paid to the picturesque old Conroy Hotel on the lake shore, the old Court House, and "Talaly-Ho Farm" at the entrance to the town, on the Aylmer Road. Here Mr. Wright of Ottawa, has his green houses, with some 400,000 feet of glass covering part of the magnificent display of flowers which subsequently find their way to Ottawa and elsewhere. Visitors are admitted at all times. At the Victoria Hotel beyond the town, and fronting on Lake Deschenes, the traveller and tourist can find good accommodation and all that thereto appertains.