PACIFIC COAST TOUR-S- THR.OUGH-THE CANADIAN •PACIFIC- ROCKIES — — —— fiorotfyjwrief CA Name of Jaatson tance fr Tran 'Bequest St. Andre The Ah? 1 mils McAdam McAda At St Quebec, ( Ihateai 1 mil Montreal Queens ' Place V " i UNIVERSITY At PI l> 2 n sorSt Winnipeg The Ro\ m m> *'° "'"" "'' At Station Calgary, Alta. Palliser All year 315 *88}«. D. 1.25 At Station also a la carte MaylS-Oct. IS 350 4.00 up Lake Louise, Alta. Chateau Lake Louise June 1-Oct. 15 365 5.00 up 2' 2 miles—50 cents. Narrow Gauge Railw Field, B. C. Mt. Stephen House All year 65 4.00 up At Station Yoho Valley Camp July 1-Sept 4.00 up Emerald Lake (near Field,) B. C. Emerald Lake Chalet- Junel5-Sept.30 16 4.00 up 7 miles—SI.00 Glacier, B. C. Glacier House MaylS-Oct. 15 90 4.00 up At Station Balfour, B. C. Kootenay Lake Hotel- 55 3.50 up \i mile Sicamous, B. C. 60 3.50 up EDITH **^LORNE H^ PIERCE I COLLECTION of CANADIANAVNA Queen's University at Kingston — ^IM^H |^^HP^wVH|HRI ,.,.. W: ' JjfOifay j,* ^ ^^j W ±z&£"?%l. JBsSBffi/A ^^BBs?! ' f »£ \j^ P^f* ; ^ ^^^^^ " ^ . .-^^- *~~ '.. - T Bh ~** "^^^*BHi Spi ~j*<iiM jrgess Pass, near Field, B. C. Pacific Coast lours Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies 'HE. Pacific is the greatest and the last of in the main to seals and sea birds. But though captain, Juan Perez, in search of new land in xI oceans— the greatest in extent, the last to Russia touched Alaska, she turned back across which to plant a cross and raise gold. In 1769 be discovered by the modern world and to the Pacific and there is no record of her having the colonization of California began, but was be made a theatre for maritime history. Europe entered British Columbia. not pressed northward, halcyon shores to the met at its christening. Asia to-day crosses it Meantime France was reconnoitering from south being more attractive to the good friars to find the home of hopes come true. Of all the the east. La Verendrye crept across the vast who loved gardens as well as souls. Thus Spain lands bordering its far-flung coasts, British prairies, sighted the foothills, saw, perhaps, the came to British Columbia, traded in furs at its Columbia is in some respects the most promising looming peaks beyond. Later, in 1751, de Niver- doorway and sailed away again. to the settler as well as the most picturesquely ville followed, made his way up the muddy Fate had reserved the conquest of tremendous varied to the tourist. waters of the Saskatchewan, built Fort Lajon- peaks, the settling of warm, secluded, sun- It was in 1745 when the French regime was quiere and would doubtless have ventured into drenched fruit valleys for the only race fitted to drawing to a bloody-flowered close in Quebec, the wonderland of the Rockies but that tidings join them up to the rest of the world by rail that Michael Novidskof sailed eastward in his out of the east called him to help Montcalm the Anglo-Saxon. moss-calked, skin-sewn shallop in pursuit of against the invading British. Thus France, too, In 1792 Captain Vancouver sailed from sea otter till he touched the antenna of a conti- came to the gateway of the Land of Promise England in the "Discovery," rounded the Horn nent, in the Island of Attu. Other Russian and passed by on the other side. and left his name as a gift for a great island and fur traders followed. The whole slender, volcanic In 1774 the Indians of British Columbia a greater city on the Canadian Coast. A year terrific Aleutian chain gradually became known to sighted their first vessel, a great-winged bird of later Alexander Mackenzie, seasoned by them— flat, mist-drenched islands, given over happy omen they thought, bearing its Spanish hardships endured in descending his mighty ; Pacific Coast lours In 1871 the Canadian Pacific was begun; INTRODUCTION TO THE ROCKIES eleven different surveys across the mountains the roof garden of the Palliser Hotel were patiently worked out, only that ten of them FROM at Calgary, one can see the glistening peaks might be ruthlessly cast aside. It was not till of the Canadian Pacific Rockies sixty miles November 7, 1885, that the last spike was away. Their call is irresistible like a magnet driven linking the Pacific Coast of Canada with — they pull the trains of eager travellers. As the the Atlantic. train glides into the gap, the little worn-out To-day the tourist may join the annual adjectives drop away, the cheap, trite phrases, of happy pleasure seekers who visit pilgrimage the descriptive bits that have been multigraphed stand on some conquered peak from Banff, may until the copy blurs. Guide at Banff which the endless mountain prospect radiates For 500 miles the Canadian Pacific Railway four hundred miles to the Pacific, a thousand to follows the wild canyons that the rivers have godchild, the Mackenzie River, in its rush to the the Arctic, a thousand and more southward. dug, brawling, glacier-fed, about the Arctic, pushed through the Rockies by the feet of He may travel to matchless Lake Louise, the giant peaks. For 500 miles the engine Peace River Pass and stood beside the Pacific. where Nature has composed her mountains, her crawls among the giant folds of their robes, He was a partner in the North West Company, glaciers, her forests into a picture as endlessly where and his scratched-in-the-rock great rival of the Hudson Bay, and northern man road- changing in light effect as it is forever fixed and bed are all out of for British Columbia soon became a kingdom ruled drawing very littleness. satisfying in wonder of line and balance of a monarch, the Scottish Chief Factor, by who color-mass. knew nor fear nor favor and lived for naught BANFF Seated in a comfortable observation car chair, but furs. Simon Fraser was another Nor'wester, he may glide down the Kicking Horse Canyon, is the capital of Rocky Mountain who ran the rapids of the river which bears his BANFF where, in 1883, Sir Sanford Fleming recorded Park, which, with Yoho and Glacier parks, name and reached the Pacific in 1806. that he and his guides and his cayuses were contains some one hundred and seventy What with the rivalries of the Hudson Bay, "from five to eight feet high miles of carriage road, with radiating trails in- the Nor'westers and the subsequently formed hundred on a path of from ten to fifteen inches wide and at numerable. Here the Canadian Pacific Railway Pacific Fur Company, to say nothing of tribal some points almost obliterated, with slopes above has placed the most beautifully situated and warfare among the Indians, the Coast in the and below us so steep that a stone roll luxuriously comfortable mountain hotel in the early nineteenth century became a spectacular would into the torrent in the abyss below!" world, overlooking the junction of the Bow and spot. In '58 an additional element of lawless the Spray rivers. Within easy reach are gentle picturesqueness was stirred in by the advent of Leaving the Rockies, the tourist may dash climbs and gorgeous panoramas, the picturesque thirty thousand gold-seekers, who rushed north through the Columbia Valley and up into the and brilliantly colored terraces of the Hot Springs from San Francisco bound for the rumor-land mighty Selkirks. He may dip south into the together with stiff and challenging ascents like around the Fraser and Thompson rivers. Just orchards of the Okanagan country; he may that of Mount Edith for the proved Alpinist, here the British Government stepped in and reach Vancouver city and take passage across who will doubtless make his headquarters with made the future province into a colony as the the Pacific. Or he may take a Canadian Pacific the Alpine Club of Canada, on the slopes of one means of anchoring it to its native moun- steamer up the coast to marvellous Alaska, Sulphur Mountain. tains. where volcano and glacier are set beside each buffalo Banff, So far British Columbia had been the land of other and the fiord country rivals Norway, where The and other animals at both the trail-hitter. No man could win through the the salmon cannery beats the gold mine and caged and at large, are a never-failing source of terrific defiles of the Rockies or round the gale- the fur seal grows fat and lusty in the protected interest. smashed Horn unless he were of the pioneer Pribilofs. Lake Minnewanka is the home of huge and breed and carried his life slung along with his Finally, he may come back again across the fighting trout, a forty-seven pounder being on rifle. But when law and order came north of width of a mighty continent by different ways exhibition at the chalet. "53" it was time for respectability and a of equal comfort, without once leaving the lines Excellent golf links have been laid out at railroad. of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Banff and there are beautiful river trips. Canadiai Pacific Rockie: HI HI 1 ? : '4''{$r "jfflJSfttt" Pacific Coast lours Lake Agnes, "the Goats' Looking Glass," as the Indians Sir James Outram says, "The torrent, issuing from an used to call it, is a wild tarn shut in by sombre cliffs, a icy cavern, rushes tempestuously down a deep winding thousand feet above Lake Louise.