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Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 An Old Hunting Cabin Al Richardson Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 MACHINERY DIVISION SALES AND SERVICE OFFICES ABILENE, TEXAS NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 209 S. Danville 4636 Sanford Street Bldg. C, Suite 107 P.O. Box 73373 Phone: 915-695-7610 Metairie, Louisiana Thel LUFKIN ILine Phone: 504-885-2841 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 2355 Main Street NEW YORK, NEW YORK P.O. Box 141 100 Menlo Park Office Bldg. Winter 1983 • Volume 59 • Number 4 Tucker, Georgia Room 408 Phone: 404-939-3119 Edison, New Jersey Phone: 201-549-1021 BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA 2500 Parker lane ODESSA, TEXAS P.O. Box 10839 Highway 80 East Phone: 805-327-3563 P.O. 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Photo courtesy of CALGARY, ALBERTA NISKU, ALBERTA Banff/Lake Louise Chamber of Commerce CANADA CANADA 225 McDougall Place PO Box 240 Framing reproductions of the pai nti ng, An Ol d Hu nting Cabi n, are 808 Fourth Ave., S.W. Nisku Industrial Park Phone: 403-234-7692 Phone: 403-955-7566 available in a limited number. Requests should be made to the Director, Public Rel ations, P.O. Box 849, Lufkin, Texas 75902-0849. INTERNATIONAL DIVISION IABC Member of International Association SALES AND SERVICE OFFICE of Business Communicators HOUSTON, TEXAS Pu blished to promote friendship and goodwill among its customers 12941 Interstate 45 North and friends and to advance the intere st of its products by Lufkin Suite 302 Industries, Inc., Lufkin, Texas. Produced by the Public Relations Phone: 713-580-5835 Department, Vi rginia R. Allen , director; David Willmon, managing Telex: 79-4309 Cable: " luffo" Houston editor, and Tom Johnston, photographer. 3 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 ver since tales of its pristine, (Above) Beneath rugged, snow-streaked peaks, skaters move almost silently on the ice of rugged beauty lured the first Lake Minnewanka. (Opposite page) In seemingly impossible co-existence, poppies on the banks of Lake Louise frame a view of Victoria Glacier, a remnant of an ice-age 20,000 years ago. E adventurous mountaineers and ski enthusiasts to the Banff/Lake pine cover the slopes and foothills mineral springs near the community. Louise area in the Canadian with a dark green backdrop for the Local Indians had regarded the Rockies, visitors to Banff National patches of golden aspen and larch springs as holy, bringing their sick Park have returned again and again during the fall. Scattered in the to the waters for healing. For years as if drawn by something mystical, clearings and along the trails are crutches and canes were nailed to almost magical they've discovered in calypso orchid, Indian paintbrush, the trees as testimonies to the this frontier wilderness. and brown-eyed susan. healing powers of the mineral Maybe the mountains create the Located just 10 miles inside the springs. magic of this resort just 65 miles East Gate of the Park, the town of The springs were discovered in west of Calgary, Alberta, on the Banff provides all the benefits of a 1883 by two prospectors, Frank Trans-Canada Highway #1. Some modern metropolitan area with 11 McCabe and William Mccardell, at are drawn there to explore, because, major convention facilities, 36 hotels a time when the Canadian most of all, it is a wilderness for and motels, museums, fine dining government was considering possible both experienced and amateur and live theatre, concerts, opera, sites for a national park in the explorers. Others find the beauty and ballet at the Banff Centre. region. In 1885, the Canadian enchanting, captivating, as did the The town was named after government chose the area first explorers who reached this Banffshire Scotland, the birthplace immediately around the springs and area. But thousands return every of Lord Strathcon, the President of Banff as the site for its first national winter to ski the thrilling slopes of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) park and initially named the reserve Lake Louise, Sunshine Valley, and during the late 1800s. It was during Rocky Mountains Park. Norquay. that time a town sprang up around The hot mineral springs were soon The Canadian Rockies surround the CPR settlement of Siding 29. used by the CPR to promote train Banff National Park like a fleet of Until then Siding 29 had been little travel to the area. The CPR built the massive, craggy battleships, more than a service center for majestic Banff Springs Hotel in 1888 intimidating by their immense railroad men, construction workers and piped the hot mineral water to a presence. Along their lower and miners in the area. But word bath house near the hotel. The elevations, Douglas fir and lodgepole began to spread about "healing" springs are still a popular attraction 5 Copied from an original at The History Center, Diboll, Texas. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 today. In preparation for the 1OOth rugged frontier and carefully created (Above) Called " Stoney Chier' by the Anniversary of the Park in 1985, a campsites and hiking facilities . Indians, Cascade Mountain (9,830 ft.) stands watch over the city of Banff and the $9 million restoration project is now Within the park are 14 campgrounds eastern entrance to Banff National Park. underway at the Cave and Basin with 2,500 campsites and roughly (Above left) Canoeing along the towering springs facility. 810 miles of hiking trails. walls of Mount Rundle on Bow River is a favorite of summer tourists. A year before the discovery of the There are 53 species of mammals hot springs near Siding 29, an within the park's territory. Walking in North America when it was built employee of the CPR, Tom Wilson, along any of the park's trails in 1959, provides visitors an was the first white man to visit Lake through the back country, one is unparalleled view of Bow Valley and Louise. Led there by an Indian likely to sight coyote, deer and elk. Banff from both its glass enclosed guide, Wilson discovered a beautiful The park also has a herd of buffalo cars and restaurant and observation emerald lake created by the huge today, even though the last bison deck atop Sulphur Mountain. glacier known today as the Victoria native to the area were killed in On the opposite side of the valley, Glacier. Both Wilson and the Indian 1858. In 1897, a park superintendent the Mount Norquay Gondola takes were enchanted by the beautiful and a group of experienced riders on a 20-minute climb to the scene. Wilson later recalled, "For Canadian ranchers secretly 7,000-foot summit of one of the some time we sat and smoked and purchased a small herd of the area's most rugged mountains. A gazed at the gem of beauty beneath animals in Montana and drove them twenty-minute ride in the Lake the glacier. " over the border into Canada. Louise Gondola takes visitors to a In 1892, the Canadian government For both explorers and sightseers, 6,700-foot summit overlooking Lake established a separate reserve around there are endless things to see and Louise and Victoria Glacier. Lake Louise, just 35 miles from almost as many ways to see them. But it is skiing which has attracted Banff. Then in 1902, Rocky For an overall look at Bow Valley, the most visitors to Banff/Lake Mountains Park was enlarged to Banff, and Lake Louise, there are Louise nearly as long as the park include the Lake Louise Park and gondola rides to the tops of has been in existence. The first renamed Banff National Park.