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WCROSSEASTWARD CAFAMIDIS DY e44taitt4t Tie Scciwic Dow Rovre VANCOUVER BANFF CALGARY REGINA WINNIPEG FORT WILLIAM SUDBURY OTTAWA MONTREAL • • • I MN= • Vancouver, end of steel for the world's first trans- continenta l railway, is Canada's gateway to the Orient and the South Pacific. Canadian Pacific "Empresses of the Air" fly passengers north to the Orient, south to Hawaii, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Peru — north to the Arctic. Vancouver's golf courses, parks, fine buildings, sea beaches and pleasant climate attract visitors from many countries. Fast Canadian Pacific "Princess" liners, from piers a stone's throw from the station, give fast day and night service to Seattle, Nanaimo and Victoria on pleasant Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, British Columbia ports and Alaska. Vancouver VANCOUVER NANAINIO sEATTLE Princess liner near Victoria Victoria, temperate capital of British Columbia, is the entrance to the year-round playground of Vancouver Island. Here The Empress, westernmost of the Canadian Pacific chain of hotels from sea I sa. 0 Alec, i•• •• I •St• • 11 14 IOW • to sea, vine-clad, set in its own 101/2-acre garden .6 • 41 11110 04„ VA It I II A 1 facing the harbour, close to business and shopping IVA Itioto , centres, is the focal point of local society, head- quarters for visitors. Golf, motoring, tennis, sailing, swimming, riding, picturesque parks and scenic drives are the background of a holiday life that includes shopping for woollens, diamonds, silver- ware, linens and many other imports. The Empress Hotel, Victoria 2 Across Canada by Canadian Pacific c., ca -s? MONTREAL to SAINT) to 4,14,8e4, to SAULT STE. MARIE A HALIFAX 0/44 c.8 ICAGO TORONTO to DETROIT Travel, even the luxurious travel of today in the TABLE OF CONTENTS comfort of Canadian Pacific Scenic Domes, is an Vancouver-China Bar Page 4 adventure. Travel, the Canadian Pacific way from North Bend-Drynoch Page 5 tidewater to tidewater across the wide provinces Spence's Bridge-Tranquille Page 6 of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani- Kamtoops- Tappen Page 7 toba, Ontario and Quebec, is an adventure in Salmon Arm-Three Valley Page 8 which the traveller of today retraces the trails Revelstoke-Moberly Page 9 blazed in a glorious past through the promise of a Golden-Field Page 10 boundless future. Hector-Castle Mountain Page 11 Banff-Robertson Page 12 The Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line Cal gary-Redcliff Page 13 parallels in this 20th Century the routes of many Medicine Hat-Boharm Page 16 brave and pious explorers of the 17th Century. Moose Jaw-Kemnay Page 17 It retraces the journeyings of such heroes as Brandon-Keewatin Page 18 Thompson, Fraser, Mackenzie, Joliet, LaSalle, Kenora- West Fort William Page 19 Radisson, Pere Marquette, Champlain, Nicolet and Fort William-Regan Page 20 Du Lhut, whose names are imprinted indissolubly White River-Sudbury Page 21 upon the histories of Canada and the United States. Romford-Toronto Pages 22-23 Rom ford-Montreal Pages 24-26 Explorers of the river routes that first opened Crowsnest Pass-Coquihalla Canyon Page 27 the Great Lakes and the rivers to the Gulf of Mexico; discoverers of the great prairies that track into Sub-Divisions. While the timetable shows sweep majestically upward from lake level to the distance between Vancouver and Montreal as the Rockies; pioneers who traced mighty streams 2,881.2 miles and between Vancouver and Toronto through the mountain barriers to the Pacific Ocean, as 2,703.6, the "Mileage Boards" found on tele- all led the builders of the world's first transconti- graph poles along the right of way start afresh nental railway. These great men of the past lead at the eastern boundary of each sub-division. For you, who sit in the air-conditioned comfort of a instance, Pembroke, 219.4 miles from Montreal, is high-level Scenic Dome, beside roaring streams indicated on the track side by Mileage Board 93 that point their silver arrows through the mountain of the Chalk River Sub-Division. In order to pin- passes, between great wheat fields, beside inland point points of interest in the scenery for ready seas along the edge of the rich pre-Cambrian location from a moving train, reference is made Shield, through lake-lands and forests, through throughout this book to the nearest mileage board gentle farm lands. Back over the trail of the ex- and each sub-division traversed is named at its plorers you see through the picture windows on start. Following the operational practice of dividing four sides of you: mines, mills, factories; great the line from east to west, these pages divide the cities, Vancouver, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line—the Current, Moose Jaw, Regina, Brandon, Winnipeg, "Scenic Dome" route—from Vancouver to Montreal Fort William-Port Arthur, Sudbury, North Bay, and Toronto. At the side of each page a yellow Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal; the pleasure lands of plan map bears the names of all stations on that the British Columbia coast, Lake Louise, Banff, page. Lake of the Woods, the North Shore of Lake Because the Canadian Pacific main line travels Superior, French River, Muskoka, the Gatineau. generally in an east-west direction "north" is "Across Canada by Canadian Pacific", prepared used throughout the book to indicate scenes and for riders of the longest "Dome" route in the world, places on the left, just as north always is indicated is based upon the railway practice of dividing the by the top of a map. Front cover picture is an artist's conception of Canadian Pacific Scenic Domes in the Bow River Valley. 3 VANCOUVER Cascade For a few miles, the eastward run Sub-Division of the world's longest Scenic Dome ride, the Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line, is at sea level. The factories and docks that BARNET characterize Vancouver, the piers, drying nets, deep-sea fishing craft, fishing shacks, the many PORT MOODY activities of a busy harbour line Burrard Inlet and spell the last sight of sea level for more than 2,880 CODUITIAM miles until it is reached again at Montreal. In between stand the barriers of the Coast Range, the PITT MEADOWS Monashee Mountains, the Selkirks, the towering PORT HAMMOND Rockies and the long, steady slope eastward across the Great Plains to Winnipeg. Keep an eye to the HANEY north for the old station at Port Moody, original western terminus of the Canadian Pacific, the ALBION world's first transcontinental railway. At mileage WHONOCK 115, Burrard Inlet ends. Coquitlam, population 3,000, is named for the nearby Indian Reservation Hell's Gate RUSKIN and the Coquillam River is spanned at 112.3. At SILVERDALE mileage 109.7, the Pitt River, almost the last tide- water, is crossed by a long bridge and the track aeons to flume out, torments itself into twisting AZ•e, points northeast to the mighty Fraser River and eddies and backwaters. Between mileages 23 MISSION CITY 9.4, Port Hammond, population 3,000. On-shore and 22, look for a giant rock in the middle of the HATZIC breezes bear the tang of the great Pacific Ocean river which still withstands the heavy pounding. across the meadows and ahead the apparently Simon Fraser, discoverer of the river, tells of making • DEWEINEY impassable barrier of the Coast Range looms his way down the canyon on a series of ladders heavily. Mission City, with a population of 5,000, built by the Indians. He little knew that 19th Century • NICOMEN junction with the Mission Sub-Division, is a busy engineers would use his route for a transcontinental centre for this fruit growing and dairy country and railway. The Spuzzum River is bridged at mileage • DEROCHE from your Scenic Dome vantage point, you can see 171 At Spuzzum, 15.5, where a steel and concrete 40 miles south in the State of Washington, snow- bridge spans the Fraser, is sited a bench noted by HARRISON MILLS topped Mount Baker. The mighty Fraser south of Fraser in his diary as a resting place. The present the track waters the Chilliwack Valley, noted for bridge is located where the first suspension bridge its fine dairy herds, which is served by ferries at west of the Rockies built by Joseph Trutch was slung Agassiz, population 2,600, site of a Government on wire cables, woven at the site, on wooden • AGASSIZ Experimental Farm and station for Harrison Hot towers. Long before the railroad came to Spuzzum, Springs. Along the way activities are divided the great Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post there. Many rivulets and creeks find WALEACH between sawmills and packing plants to which strings of trucks bring fresh gathered crops, for their way to the Fraser on both sides: White's this is the heart of the fruit and dairy lands. Ruby Creek is crossed at mileage 9.7 and Williams Creek • RUBY CREEK Creek, mileage 48, owes its name to garnets found at 9.2. Just above this, a spinning whirlpool is in the neighbourhood. The gentle, doTesticated known as The Devil's Wash Basin". It is caused pattern of the land begins to change as the stark by a narrow rock formation between mileages • KATZ grandeur of the mountains approaches ever closer 8 and 7 aptly christened "Hell's Gate". Conserva- and, at Odium, the mouths of the Fraser and tionists particularly will be interested in the ODIUM Coquihalla Canyons form a natural landmark for series of basins beside cascades by which salmon the junction of the Banff-Lake Louise transconti- • HAIG nental line with the Coquihalla Canyon-Crowsnest Pass route of the Canadian Pacific through the "Friendly Folk" Southern Rockies.