RCO
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A scene of the town, not necessarily the whole.... but my city is of quite a decent size and has few buildings over 3 stories. Not sure why a tiny town would have a huge Cathedral and a 4-story court(?) building plus a well-maintained beach-front park back in 1906. Not sure if that's normal for small Canadian towns.
Wikipedia shows the last 20 years' population as a constant decline. Could have been bigger back in the day, than it is today, with that being the general trend for the last century.
the large catholic churches aren't as common in Ontario but all over quebec there is huge catholic churches . even in many rather small towns . mattawa seems to have had a large French population which would explain the large catholic church
according to a picture online , its a roman catholic church , presbytery , hospital and school . shown in the postcard . but the large church doesn't appear to be there anymore and I can't seem to find anything online which explains why , a smaller church appears to be on same site now