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What's Photographs in this booklet at Photographs not so marked are marked © A.S.N, are copyright by the Photographic Depart by the Associated Screen News, Doing- ment, Canadian Pacific Railway, Montreal, Canada. Montreal, Canada. Programme of Events for 1932 (Published by the Canadian Pacific Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta) July 11-16 . Calgary Stampede July 18-23 Willingdon Cup July 26-28 Indian Days at Banff July 18-Aug. 1 Alpine Club Camp at Glacier, B.C. July. 29-Aug. 2 Official Trail Ride to Mount Assiniboine Aug. 15-20 Prince of Wales Trophy The Banff Highland Gathering will not be held this year. GOLF AT BANFF Special Family Rates have been introduced this year on Banff Golf Course. The first member of the family is charged the regular rates and each additional member is charged half the regular rates. TWO AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS The Willingdon Cup—Presented by the Viceroy of India, and former Governor- General of Canada. Open to Banff Springs Hotel Guest Amateurs—members in good standing of any recognized Golf Club, and playing under club handicaps. Also to mem bers of Banff Golf Club. Winner to receive an engraved miniature of the original cup. Prince of Wales Trophy—Presented to Banff Golf Club by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Open to all amateur members in good standing of any recognized Golf Club. • "V". tL !-!• .*.,-;j7-?' 'in 'it-: 1 kZ^zll/M^Ai The winner to receive a suitable engraved Banff Springs Hotel in the Valley of the Bow miniature of the trophy. In addition, minor periodical competitions are held throughout the season. Full particulars from any Canadian Pacific Agent or the ~Jhe (Discovery afjjanjf Manager of Banff Springs Hotel. T WAS probably some wandering Red (By NOMAD panorama of dense green masses of pine man who discovered Banff, some "Lone and spruce sharp scythe - cut by the I Eagle" who found the exigencies of the Beautiful, and so it has been called sparkling Bow and Spray Rivers, the great tribal ritual irksome and turned his eyes ever since; for Nature seems to have massive Rockies framing the picture on and his pony's nose to the mountains, there bestowed every imaginable scenic asset either side; while stretching away to the east to find relief. Probably—but no one knows. upon the region. An exquisitely forested, a chain of snow-capped peaks hems in the And today? Tribal ritual is much the same flower-filled valley is watered by the blue- farther end of the vista. among the whites as among the redmen. green Bow River, which first winds past There on your right lies Mount Rundle Change the counters and the game is the alpine meadows in which moose, elk and" (9,665) with its queer "writing-desk" same. The laws of Wall Street can be as deer, pasture, and then tumbles down in a formation and sharp-toothed ridge of irksome as the Indian's code and probably gorgeous fall just below the spacious pearl-grey rock; to the left rises Cascade SPRINGS you, too, have come to Banff to find relief, verandas of the Canadian Pacific Hotel— Mountain (9,826), with its impressive to forget the nerve-searing routine of city only to flow smoothly on again through the barren contours and its silvery stream that life, the heat and discordant din of the giant ravine that lies between Mount falls like a crystal fringe from near the market place. Probably—but you alone Rundle and Tunnel Mountain. summit down to the spot where the whole A CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTEL know. You have, at any rate, found Banff, The view down the Bow Valley from the cascade (which gives the mountain its and isn't that after all the discovery which wide terraces and long windows in the name) disappears into the ground to run interests you most ? So now to see it. luxurious lounges of the famous Banff subterraneously to join the Bow River. Long ago—some forty years to be exact— Springs Hotel is one of the most superb In front of you, facing westward, towers the an early pioneer named this spot Banff in the world, and offers an unrivalled Fairholme Range, with Mount Peechee WHAT'S DOING AT BANFJ NINETEEN-THIRTY-ONE m 'fl Bow River Falls ©A.S.X. (9,615), named after the Stony Indian who Indian Chiefs are attached to Banff Springs Pass; the Revd. R. T. Rundle, pioneer led Sir George Simpson safely through Hotel as instructors in archery. Most of Methodist missionary to the Indians, who The Gap into the Rocky Mountains in 1841, the Stonys, however, now live on the the same year camped in the Banff Valley, when the Red men were by no means so Indian Reserve at Morley, a forty-mile and whose name is perpetuated by the peaceful as they are today, guarding the ride from Banff. massive range that towers above the Banff southern end, while Mount Inglismaldie Springs Golf Course; Sir James Hector who, (9,715) terminates the Range to the north. Memories Or Indian place-names lie in 1858, made the first ascent of the Kicking Could anything be lovelier than this the Past thick upon the land, Horse Pass and whose achievement is Valley of the Bow? such as Minnewanka commemorated by the monument standing (Water Spirit), Ghost River, Stony Squaw on the summit of the Great Divide, crossed The Stony Here are graven on tree and others, coupled with memories of the by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and all Indian an<^ stone, and in legend first coming of the White Man to the those eminent railway pathfinders and ary lore, the ancient his "Glittering Mountains," such as Pierre de builders who, during the years 1880-1885, torical associations of Cree, Sioux and la Verandrye, who, in 1745, first sighted toiled that east and west might be united Stony Indian—stalwart braves with their the foothills and beyond them the moun with bonds of steel. patient squaws, and little papooses, many tains east of Banff; Sir George Simpson Nature, Romance and History have of whom still camp out among the moun who, in 1841, made the first east-to-west co-operated in creating the setting for your tains, eating the wild game they hunt and overland journey ever undertaken, crossed vacation. Some of the attractive features the fish they catch and dry in the sun, mixed the Bow a little way above where Banff is within this setting will be briefly described with roots and berries. Two typical Stony now situated and discovered Simpson's in the following pages. Jjanffand3aronial3anffSprings uo otel AVE you ever wondered why you % The EPICURE excellent Turkish bath at the hotel, very never wear a bowler at sea, why popular with those who come in after a baronial Banff Springs Hotel. Granted that H you never don a red coat and game of golf or an hour in the saddle. a hotel at best is but a means and not an ^^^^^^^ black silk hat when you straddle a moun During the evening—twice weekly—inter end, it is unquestionable that this superbly tain pony and never play the amateur esting nature talks on wild life and scenery situated and splendidly appointed hotel cowboy when you are riding to hounds? in the Rockies are given, illustrated with has played no inconsiderable part in making Why? It's just because you would be colored lantern slides. World-famous con of Banff one of the world's most famous violating your sense of the essential fitness cert and light opera artists are also brought mountain resorts. of things, that sense which decrees tweeds for your entertainment. A library of up-to- The entire first and second floors are for shooting in Scotland and red coats for date fiction is available and the spacious given over to the public rooms, artistically the hunting field. luxurious lounges invite one to succumb decorated and furnished, in which the to a contented laziness. And has it ever occurred to you that this architect has provided a Scotch baronial sense governs such living things as hotels atmosphere. Among the features are the An excellent concert orchestra, with as well as such inanimate things as clothes? period suites—the Vice-Regal, Georgian, vocal accompaniment, provides fine music It it hasn't, you realize it at Banff Springs Jacobean, Tudor, Swiss and Italian; the during the tea and dinner hours, and a mod Hotel, for here the architect has shown a period influence also dominates the lounges, ern dance orchestra plays, in the evening. rare appreciation of the setting his hotel including the magnificent Mount Stephen Light operas are staged twice a week during was to adorn, has satisfied his own as well Hall. the months of July and August. as your sense of fitness. At the hotel there is entertainment all Living is an art at Banff, and in the A log chalet at Banff, however ambitious, the time. One could be perfectly happy scheme of things which make up life at this would have been as much in keeping as just looking out towards the enclosing great hostelry the "art of eating" has its paper hats on the august heads of omni mountains, watching the swimmers in the own well defined place. The spruce- scient senators. Banff was too majestic even warm sulphur water pool, swimming oneself, scented mountain air puts an edge on the for log. The setting required something playing tennis or ping-pong, or studying most jaded appetite, which, after all, more dignified, something that breathed the cosmopolitan types which one meets at simplifies the task of the chej de cuisine who Bow Eiver Bridge with Cascade Mountai of tradition and solidarity — it required this great caravanserai.