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CEDAR POINT! Keynote of the PART 2^ PAGE 8 TIKTROIT SFNDAT TIMES (PHONE CHERRY, 8800) Sunday, July 20, 1941 Monroe are expected to attend North's Gateway Maccabees Plan the Bob-Lo excursion planned Giant National Parks by that organization for West Coast Wednesday. Beckons Tourists Bob-Lo Excursions Lotus Lodge No. 549, F. and STRAIGHT NORTH from PETER WIGGLE is chairman A. M., is completing arrange- Play In Offer Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., lies Al- of a committee completing ar- ments for its annual Lake Canada Scenes goma. be Makes Many have read of this Huron outing, to held July rangements for a Bob-Lo outing land, others have heard of it 27. Members and their friends and some have been fortunate which will feature the opening will cruise on one of the Bob-Lo enough to traverse Algoma land. day of the nineteenth supreme boats, returning to Detroit early For Tourists Of Picturesque Beauty Within a few minutes after review, the international con- in the evening. travelers dock at the Canadian vention of the Maccabees, July By C. M. WAGONER than 1,000,000 visitors language and rare skill in handi- Soo they willbe on the outskirts 21 to 24, inclusive. HmM lr*rl tiHof MOREare expected at Canada’s crafts. of the Laurentian plateau, an About 1,500 members of the SEATTLE. Wash., July 19. national parks this year. At- Baddeck, Summer watering unspoiled country. Knights of Columbus from tendance approached the 1,000.- place on Bass d’Or Lake, is on Passengers on the week’s the Seattle •'Potlatch.*' 1939, but fell short pROM* 000 mark in the Cabot Trail. Here for more cruise of the S.S. Georgian leav- which htarts July 29 and when uncertainties by than quarter century ing Detroit each Saturday night Crd^f a a of lived *TI«r«IM of bavto, • •M.fna.d •• 4ta /Zook FO* THISI the entry into war *• wto.b ••* Uto runs into August, until the Dominion’s and worked Dr. Alexander for a trip over the lakes and bN.ll • slowed travel near the end of Graham Bell, inventor of Georgian Bay traverse the St. total, Ml« rtota* tata, to. thirty-first Tendleton Roundup, the ¦ton •!>. GREAT LAKES CRUISES the season. telephone. Mary’s river by daylight to the mJ Omi. toW running four days starting Sep- to THAT HAVE NO EQUALI 11 the However, eight of the parks Under his direction the first Canadian Soo and have time tember Pacific North- motor out to Gros Gap on the it west will present a pretty chalked up record numbers of airplane flight in the British visitors that year, mostly by Empire shore of Lake Superior. FROM DITROfT picture for vacationists. was made at Baddeck to citizens of the United States 30 years ago. The body of This is the gateway north This section presents that pic- the Hudson Bay and the railway s s ture at any time with its varied who usually include in their inventor, as he requested, is the north passes through Agawa NORTH AMERICAN scenic attractions, but this year itinerary one or more of encased in a rock-hewn tomb on Georgian jmrks, Canyon where dashes the Mon- I to Bay, Mackinac rosy north- Canadian some of which Bhreagh i.'.kn everything is in this the summit of Beinn treal River. This is a hunter's fbv I 'lni•••III*. ,1 'tow J, ... H Island and Chicago. portion of the United are similar to those in the (Beautiful Hill) at the foot of west others and angler’s paradise. States States, and strikingly which he so long dreamed and 11 Everything is booming, people different. labored. SOUTH AMERICAN have plenty of money, there's One of the finesj golf courses to Isle Royale, Duluth and just 390 Square Miles 'Hiawatha Feast' Mackinac fun galore and the folks on the North American con- ( fr o.u tw Island. ffncMl"* OK-FUfUO • • AU how to know live. Perhaps one of the best exam- tinent has just been completed • Al .o'* ipo.li plot KtotabocS rid- OUTSIOI STATIROOMI ples of these differences, it is in Cape Breton Highlands Na- Pageant Rehearsed "* V*. '.On, roKto tkotoig, pmg Old Indian Custom pointed out by the Canadian tional Park by the interna- pong. «hvHI« boo'd, owo.it ond k.k.ngl GRAND MARAIS. July 19. • Travel • Bureau at Ottawa. tionally known golf architect, rs* id»«l ploc* to lawng* s->ong • Now, a “Potlatch" w’as a good Rehearsals for the pageant. corgiriol and Mtorlad tltantotol Canada, is found in the new Stanley Thompson. • old Indian custom of this Puget Feast,” • (>c«iltoU nwM and wit by an park the “Hiawatha’s Wedding Sound region. national created in Another of Canada’s play- which will be presented here taiyartod Sawdito* Uattl highlands of Cape Breton Island, • moot A big man of the tribe, feeling grounds, Prince Edward Island July 31 and August 1 and 2, are Potoi to# from 130 pto Amm well-pleased w-ith himself, his Nova Scotia. National Park —the newest of under way at the Grand Marais Kan pitot • ond accomplishments or his posses- Here is an area of 390 square all—is also situated in the east. and for foldtoi complato #i*onaofitoJ "’••/I* School of Arts Crafts. on *• xtool iwtata#. ootatioM .... call all his fellow miles stretching across Cape It takes the form of a strip of • sions, would in The pageant will be staged on —W.lltom A’J.mon. Mgr , Pori Myrto*. tribesmen, from the along north and perhaps other Breton Island Gulf of coastline the shore the Nagow Wudjoo sand dunes Michigan, ot comwliyaur ba*«! og»nf set rout TtAVfl AGtNT 0» friendly neighboring tribes, for a St. Lawrence to the Atlantic of Prince Edward Island. on the shore of Lake Superior Ocean, a land rich in the earliest GEORGIAN BAY LINE “Potlatch.” near Grand Marais, « * Province in the exact DiTROIT CH 6*»o And there would be a period history of the North American Smallest location made famous by Long- of feasting and dancing, of continent. This park has miles of broad, fellow in his “Song of Hiawa- games of skill and contests History relates lhat near this sandy beaches and includes many tha.” as the scene of the orig- w’hich would carry on to the spot Cabot first touched the points of interest associated inal event. TAKE A TIP FROM A PILGRIM point of satiety. shores of North America, and with the famous novel. “Anne of And as a grand finale the his memory is perpetuated in Green Gables,” written by Lucy Indian host at the “Potlatch” the Trail, road BEWARE Cabot the main Maud Montgomery, a native of > away all his posses- > would give leading to and encircling the Prince Edw-ard Island. Travel Motion sions to his guests—sometimes may up*«t organs of park. A new 18-hole golf course Motion lend to the even his wife. has balance, when traveling by but. train, boat, completed met, Scottish Fishermen also been here amid motor or plane, causing nausea and dirt Become* Festival the most delightful surroundings —when pleasure it most de tired. Think of the Along uncomfortable, emharratting feeling ere* itflP the shoreline of Cape one could imagine. to of rctultt. When the white-man came, Highlands ated.ttith no facilitiet takecare $«• New England by Breton National Park Here, in Canada’s smallest but Ifyou, or your children, are affected by mo- who had won the Indians' may those are little picturesque fishing vil- most thickly populated province, tion rvautea, you travel in comfort. respect and confidence often S remedy hat been uted lages, many of them inhabited in turn described as the 1,000,- MOTHCRSHL GREYHOUND join in the at a valued aid in promoting travel comfort were invited to by families of Highland Scottish farm, of gradually they 000-acre the cradle lor over a third of a century. Recommended for %or« fun, tor leti money >.J “Potlatch"; and ancestry. Here you may be by many nurtet and profession* Canada, rich in history and physician*. Pedi,cover th« l.nrl of Plymouth Pock ,nd adopted versions of the “Pot- in Gaelic, hear the Try Mothertill’a on our auur. greeted skirl romantic legend, is an ideal al travelcra. P.ul Ravere. of Clipper .Hip* »nd C.pr Cod \ a festival held recur- or money refunded \ latch” as of the bagpipes from mountain park ance of satisfaction houM*. on your vacation this aummar. You'll setting for a national which Oruggttti tupply Mothertill’jfor adulft and y rently over the years. and valley, and meet people ha proving your good old Yankao ah'awdna*. Several years ago, with is rapidly becoming one of the children. Write for leaflet and free penult. i / if you cruua to Nrw England by Sup*.-Coach. \ dressed in full Highland costume. Lalaystt* . Ntv Yack major city most popular recreation centers MOTMtRSILL*. *l® St Seattle grown to a in the Lake Huron \ One-Way -Trig Ona-Way Basking breezes of On the west coast of Cape in the maritime provinces. I hit Xd Trl, of the continent, the Washing- 11 f’l«‘vr*|»nii $ .’.4" | 4.Vi Alfi*nr I hNi |I.W» are these two vacationists shown aboard Rreton Island, just five miles In Ontario there are three *.'• tonians. Inc., revived the Seattle Tjg f'hliagii .1 dl*.' hprlngrteld, south of the park boundaries, small national parks. The St. 'TA Ilo»ton 10 X OU* 45 Slag* lO.fW 1? JO f “Potlatch” as a civic celebra- the North American on a week’s trip there is a thriving settlement of Lawrence Islands Park includes * tion.
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