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ONSTRUCTION work on the new Prince of Wales Hotel being built in Waterton Lakes National Park by the ies Hotel Company—a new subsidiary of the Great way—has progressed so satisfactorily, since it was started that definite assurance may now be given that it will be ready some ing the 1927 tourist season and one is enabled now to fully visualize magnificent structure it will be and what a splendid purpose it The building of this luxurious hostelry in the heart of a section Rocky Mountains which extends from Glacier National Park over ternational boundary into Canada by the Americans who had so much with the development of facilities for the enjoyment of Glacier Park nificant in Ever since 1913 when the "Big Tree Lodge" at the eastern entrance cier Park was opened the park has seen a marked increase in the number annual visitors. Construction of hotels in Glacier kept pace with ing demand for accommodations until 1920. Since that year, when annex to the famous Many-Glacier Hotel in the Swift Current completed, the ever increasing number of summer tourists has for by additions to the chalet groups at Two Medicine, Going-to-the- Granite Park and by the establishment of several tent camps locations on the interior trail system, notably in the north section park where until 1924 there were no accommodations at all. of the Prince of Wales Hotel in the Canadian Rockies abutting boundary of Glacier National Park, because it will be operated by Northern subsidiary closely affiliated and cooperating with the Hotel Company, will adequately relieve the pressure which has been Glacier Park for added de luxe accommodations and it will, happily, same time provide these superior creature comforts at a location not only the famous beauty spots of the Canadian Rockies will by easy motor, launch and saddle-horse trips, but from which almost unapproachable but stupendous grandeur of the north Glacier Park can be seen in the same Words fall short of adequately describing the scenery of the both sides of the international boundary so that it is perhaps enough, some impression of the grandeur of this country, to call attention to that this entire mountainous section, both in Montana and Alberta, sidered so supremely beautiful that two nations, the United Canada, set aside their respective portions of it as The broad, high observation windows of the lobby overlook panorama of lake, forests and The larger of the two lakes from which Waterton Lakes takes its name, lies almost due north and south in a long between lofty ridges of mountains and is fed at the south end which have their sources deep within the confines of Glacier Park the upper tributaries of the Saskatchewan. This lake extends the American Rockies for three miles and up into Canada for At a point about four miles beyond the boundary in Canada, the hills of Mt. Crandall and Vim), ,Ridge push out into the lake to and turn it almost at a right angle to the east. A smoothly tory at the southeast base of Mt. Crandal commands a view from rows many miles south where the lake lies placid between peaks to reach higher as they recede south to be topped by the ramparts Cleveland, 10,438 feet high; north up the steep slopes of Mt. to Mt. Cameron and east over the lake beyond the narrows to of Vimy Ridge. The new Prince of Wales Hotel is built on this this height of land that overlooks in every direction a panorama getable The architecture of the hotel is Swiss. The building with its roofs and dormers, its carved beams and ornamented balconies, seems charm to its lovely alpine setting. It consists of a high gabled tion with gabled wings extending from either side. Several on each side of the two wings break the straight lines of the roofs. Within the main section of the building is the lobby, an open
2 A Huge Fireplace adds cheer to the clubby stories high. It is supported by heavy hand-hewn posts, beams The outlook from the lobby at both ends is through plate glass extend two stories high from the ground. The main entrance is on end of the central section opening into the lobby which is fifty-four by eighty-two feet long. As the lobby is entered the hotel office is right and on the opposite side an office is provided for the patrons in arranging for tours, saddle-horse trips and train this side also is an elevator and a broad stairway leading to the The first floor of the east wing contains a large lounge room along one which will be the hotel shops and at the far end of the room there will mammoth fireplace. The ground floor of the other wing will contain, far end, a modern hotel kitchen and off the lobby in this wing will dining room with a seating capacity for Friezes around the walls of the lobby and lounge rooms are by the Blood Indians, one of the Blackfoot Confederacy tribes settled on a reservation in Canada a short distance from the These Indians, like their confederates, the Piegans and Blackfeet, written language. Their traditions and legends were handed tion after generation by word of mouth. In some instances made of the tribal exploits by picture writing on skins and quite adept in the making of pictographs. The friezes which the lobby and lounge of the Prince of Wales Hotel will portray colored pictographs the significant and heroic events in the lives of 3 An excellent golf course is one of the attractions of National ent Blood Chiefs and a few who are remembered out of the dim their The dining room frieze will consist of reproductions on of some of the outstanding scenic views of both Glacier Lakes National Parks. A panel above the north or main entrance hotel will be embellished with the coats of arms of the Dominion and the Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan toba. Wide. plate glass windows extending the entire height of floor will provide an alluring outlook from both sides of the and dining One of the striking features of the interior decorations will lighting fixtures. They are unique and original in design ; great pendant lanterns covered with parchment and decorated with by the Blood All of the space above the first floors in the east and west wings Prince of Wales Hotel is given over to sleeping rooms. There accommodations for about one hundred fifty guests and all will have private baths. The hotel structure was so planned can easily be made and the plan is to eventually have tions for from three hundred to four hundred guests and dining for the same or a larger number. The accommodations which will able when the present unit of the hotel is completed will be as fine as be found in any of the better class resort hotels in the country.
4 The highway leading to the Prince of Wales Hotel on of course, will be steam heated, electric lighted and there will be cold running water Just north of the knoll or bluff on which the hotel is situated there attractive small lake where a bathing pavilion is maintained by Parks Department so that outdoor swimming will be one of activities of the hotel patrons. A number of other small lakes streams in the vicinity are kept well stocked with trout so that be every bit as good as it is in the far famed trout waters of Golf enthusiasts too will be attracted here by an excellent is maintained by the Canadian government on the plain east of the Wales Hotel and north of the arm of Waterton Lake which reaches several miles to the east. The course is one of the finest in nine holes at present, but it can easily be made an eighteen hole course Canadian government plans to add the second nine holes just as soon need for greater space is felt. The fairways are kept in first and the greens are oiled sand. In connection with the golf course a club house with modern conveniences, space for the parking of and on the course at convenient locations shelters have been erected players overtaken by inclement weather may go. A nominal fee for the use of the golf course and The Great Northern Railway has started construction work on some and powerful launch which will operate on the Waterton ing the boundary on each trip into Glacier National Park. The boat
5 Fine from the site of the Prince fortably carry two hundred and fifty passengers. Besides running on lar schedule arranged for the convenience of tourists making the automobile coaches at the Prince of Wales Hotel and the trains at the upper end of Waterton Lake, excursions will be run guests who do not ride horseback may have an easy and enjoyable getting close in among the towering peaks which frame the lake on The Waterton Lakes lie at an altitude of approximately 4,200 feet seven hundred feet lower than the level of the lakes in the Many- gion of Glacier Park and while few of the surrounding peaks are 9.000 feet, they rise so abruptly from the level of the lake that ramparts are awe inspiring even to those who have lived in the years. Looking south into Glacier Park from many points on the is deeply impressed by the power and beauty in the lines of Mt. mighty cliffs and crags. the mass of Goathaunt Mountain and ridges of the Mt. Crandall, at the base of which the new Prince of Wales Hotel 4 cated, is encircled by a scenic motor highway following Blakiston the north side of the mountain and Cameron Brook on the south road also extends up Cameron Brook to Cameron Lake which is a able and picturesque body of water just over the north boundary Park and five or six miles west of Waterton Lake. Cameron Lake for its fine trout fishing. A motor road also leads northeast from to Waterton Mills and Lake Maskinonge, another favored fishing
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the site of the hotel there are many hiking and saddle-horse trails to points of interest and beauty. The length of these trips is from a than a mile to fifteen miles and most of the trips from the hotel can be made by horseback or afoot in a day. Waterfalls, tiny in glaciated rock cirques, and mountain meadows literally covered with fuse variety of wild flowers are to be seen on all of these trails and number of easily ascended heights in the vicinity marvelous views ton Lakes and the new Prince of Wales Hotel may be had. There is wealth of wild life and it is not at all uncommon to see deer, elk, and bear at no great distance from Waterton Park's new hotel will he the terminus of one of the motor highways in all America. Beginning at Glacier Park station Great Northern Railway, the road skirts the mountains of through the Blackfoot Indian Reservation. It traverses the valleys Two Medicine, the Cut Bank, the headwaters of the Milk, the St. Swift Current and climbs the ridges which separate these waterways ford incomparable views of snow-patched peaks, mountain lakes on the one hand and sweeping panoramas of the rolling plains on A newly constructed highway from Babb, where heretofore all turned up the valley of the Swift Current on their way to now extends through the north quarter of the Blackfoot Reserve the Canadian border to Cardston and from there west into Lakes section of the Rockies. Regularly scheduled motor coach be maintained over this highway by the Glacier Park
7 Lake Janet in the North Country of Glacier pany linking the Prince of Wales Hotel in Canada with the Hotel, St. Mary and Going-to-the-Sun Chalets and Many-Glacier Glacier National An automobile coach service north to Macleod, Calgary and berta. linking these points and the resorts of the northern with the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park hotel system of Glacier National Park, will be maintained during season by the Brewster Transport Company, Ltd.. of Canada. follows the foothills of the Rockies all the way affording splendid the mountains to the west and the rolling Canadian prairies to the it crosses the reservations of the North Piegan and Stoney Indians The American end of Waterton Lake, where Goathaunt Camp ated in the geographical center of the vast and beautiful north Glacier National Park, is accessible by "inside'. mountain from all points in Glacier Park. The principal starting point journey to Goathatint Camp is the Many-Glacier which place the route is via Swift Current Pass, Fifty Mountain Flattop Mountain and the Little Kootenai River. The return trip haunt Camp by trail is via Red Gap Pass, Crossley Lake Camp in River country and Indian Pass. The launch on Waterton Lake horseback tour parties from the rendezvous on the upper end Lake to the new Prince of Wales Hotel. In this way tourists circle, as a unit, the marvelously scenic Waterton Lakes section Canadian Rockies and the north country of Glacier 8 Mt. Merritt from Red Gap Pass—Glacier The Prince of Wales Hotel front
The trail trip from Many-Glacier Hotel via Swift Current three days with overnight stops at Granite Park Gimlets, atop nental Divide, and Fifty Mountain Camp, under the towering Mt. Kipp, and the trip returning via the Belly River country days with an overnight stop at Crossley The Park Saddle Horse Company, outfitters in Glacier and operators of the north country camps, offers trail riders a uled "North Circle Trip" combining the two routes to and Lake from Many-Glacier Hotel going in one way and out the trip is conducted daily during July and August and is on an "all- sis with meals and lodgings furnished at their own camps. This five- trip has become extremely popular since the north country camps tablished in 1924 because of the unsurpassed scenery all the way excellent accommodations provided at the camps. Tourists will leged, in making the regular "North Circle Trip" to drop out of at Goathaunt Camp, make the launch trip to the Prince of Wales remain there as long as desired before returning to Goathaunt Camp join another tour party for the return trip to Many-
1 WITH THE OPENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL BE FURNISHED AT RATES SHOWN BELOW. AUTOMOBILE, SADDLE-HORSE TRANSPORTATION WILL BE PROVIDED WITH THE FOLLOWING TIME SCHEDULES Hotel The Prince of Wales Hotel will be operated on the American Plan. Rates will be $8.00 to day per person, according to location of room and number of occupants. There will be no bat 1 person in room $10.00; 2 or more persons in room 8.00; 9.00; Meal Rates: Breakfast, $1.25; Lunch, $1.25; Dinner, Launch Service A two hundred and fifty passenger launch, with large open deck for one hundred and fifty, cabin for one hundred passengers, with duplicate engines and twin propellers, will operate between and the south end of the lake. Leaving Prince of Wales Hotel-8:00 A. M., 2:30 P. M., 7:30 P. turning, leave Goathaunt Camp at south end of lake 9:00 A. M., 4:00 P. M., 8:30 P. M. Round 81.50; one Automobile Service Between Glacier Park Hotel, St. Mary Chalets. Many-Glacier Hotel and the Prince of dail North Bound South 8:15 A. M. Lv. Glacier Park Hotel Ar. 5:25 10:15 A. M. Ar. St. Mary Chalets Lv. 3:25 10:30 A. M. Lv. St. Mary Chalets Ar. Lunch, 11:55 11:55 A. M. Ar. Many- Lunch, 1:30 P. M. Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel Ar. 5:30 P. M. Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel Lv. 8:00 FARE Glacier Park Hotel to St. Mary Chalets - - - $4.00 Prince of Wales Hotel to St. Mary Chalets - St. Mary Chalets to Many-Glacier Hotel - 3.50 St. Mary Chalets to Glacier Park Hotel - Many Glacier Hotel to Prince of Wales The above schedule and fares permit stop-overs at hotels Between the Prince of Wales Hotel and Calgary and Banff every Read Down Read Up Read Down 9:00 A. M. Lv. Waterton Lakes An 6:00 P. M. 6:00 P. M. Ar. •Calgary - - Lv. 8:00 12:00 Noon Ar. Macleod - - Lv. 1:00 P. M. 9:00 A. M. Lv. Calgary — - Ar. 10:30 1:00 P. M. Lv. Macleod - - Ar. 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon Ar. Banff - Lv. 7:00 *Transfer RATES One Way Return RATES One Waterton Lakes to Calgary - $15.00 $25.00 Waterton Lakes to Banff $20.00 Saddle Horse Service Trips from the Prince of Wales Hotel—Waterton Lakes Saddle horses and guides are available at the Prince of Wales Hotel for trips into the Waterton Lakes National Park. The basis of the charges in Waterton Lakes Park for saddle- is $4.00 per day for a saddle horse and WOO per day for a guide with horse. One-day side trips Lake, Blue Lake, Boundary Cabin, Cameron Lake, Horseshoe Canyon, Sofa Mountain. Forks Belly River, escorted by guide. may be made at a rate of $4.00 per person provided there are not five persons in Other one-day trips, shorter rides tributary to the hotel, as well as camping trips of any length arranged for at the Prince of Wales Hotel at rates which are on a parity with those in Glacier similar Trips from Goathaunt Tent Camp—Glacier Saddle horses are available at Goathaunt Tent Camp at south end of lake daily during July for a side trip to Brown's Pass and return, an all-day trip; rate per person, $5.00. Goathaunt Tent Camp to Many-Glacier Hotel via Crossley Lake Tent Camp-2-day trip $26.00, includes meals, lodging and saddle horse and guide service from Goathaunt Tent breakfast first day to arrival Many-Glacier Hotel second day Made daily July and August for 3 or more One or two people can make this trip at same rate any day there is a regular party Tent Camp on the North Circle all-expense Five- Three-Day Saddle-Horse Trip—Many-Glacier Hotel to Goathaunt Tent Camp on 1st day to Granite 2nd day to Fifty Mountain 3rd day to Goathaunt Rate includes meals, lodging, and saddle horse and Connection at Goathaunt Tent Camp is made with launch (fare 75c extra) to Prince of Above trip is made daily July and August for minimum of 3 This convenient arrangement of rates permits tourists to make the trip to the Prince of Wales saddle horse, remain there as long as desired and return to Many-Glacier Hotel by auto; or they the auto trip to the Prince of Wales Hotel and return Suggested Trips of Two to Four Days with TRANSPORTATION COST ONLY
TWO-DAY FOUR-DAY (Transportation only) (Transportation only) Glacier Park Hotel to Prince of Glacier Park Hotel to Prince of going via Many- going via Many- returning via St. returning via St. First Day: First Day: Lv. Glacier Park Hotel (auto) - 8:15 An Many-Glacier Hotel 11:55 Lv. Glacier Park Hotel (auto) 8:15 Afternoon available for Ar. Many-Glacier Hotel 11:55 Stop for Second Day: Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 Forenoon available for Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel - - - 5:30 Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 Ai-. Prince of Wales Hotel - — 5:30 Second Day: Third Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 At Prince of Ar. St. Mary Chalets ------11:55 All day available for launch trip Stop for lunch and launch trip on St. Lake or for saddle Lv. St. Mary Chalets (auto) - - 3:25 Ar. Glacier Park Hotel 5:25 Fourth Day: Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 An St. Mary Chalets ------11:55 Stop for lunch and launch trip on St. Lv. St. Mary Chalets (auto) - - 3:25 THREE-DAY An Glacier Park Hotel—Dinner - 5:25 (Transportation only) The above four-day trip is suggested as minimum time that is desirable to spend in Glacier Park lintel to Prince of parks, as it allows two half days at allowing one full day at Prince Hotel and one full day at Prince of Wales lintel, going via Many- sight-seeing trips from these points. are desirable and can be returning via St.
First Day: TWO-DAY LI/. Glacier Park Hotel (auto) - 8:15 (Transportation only) Ar. Many-Glacier Hotel 11:55 Prince of Wales Hotel to Many- Stop for Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 First Day: Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel - - - - 5:30 Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 Ar. Many-Glacier Hotel - - - - Second Afternoon for side trips to Iceberg At Prince of Lake, Josephine All day available for saddle horse or Second Day: Third Day: Forenoon available for launch trip and Josephine Lakes, or saddle Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 Ar. St. Mary Chalets - - - - 11:55 Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel - - 5:30 Stop for lunch and launch trip on St. Lv. St. Mary Chalets (auto) - - 3:25 Ar. Glacier Park Hotel 5:25 FOUR-DAY (Transportation only) l'rince of Wales Hotel to Many- via St. Mary Chalets, Going-to- THREE-DAY Chalets (saddle horse), via or via launch and auto (Transportation only) Many-Glacier Prince of Wales Hotel to St. Mary First Day: Many-Glacier Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 Ar. St. Mary Chalets - - 11:55 First Day: Stop for Lv. Prince of Wales Hotel (auto) - 8:00 Lv. St. Mary Chalets (launch) - - 1:00 Ar. St. Mary Chalets - - 11:55 Ar. Going-to-the-Sun Chalets - - 2:00 Stop for lunch and launch trip on St. Second Day: Lv. St. Mary Chalets (auto) - - 3:25 Ar. Many-Glacier Hotel 5:10 Lv. Going-to-the-Sun saddle horse or launch and auto 8:00 Second Ar. Many-Glacier Hotel - - - - 5:10 At Many- Third All day for saddle horse trips to Iceberg At Many- Grinnell All day available for saddle horse side ing or Third Day: Fourth Day: Forenoon available for launch trip Forenoon available for launch trip on and Josephine Dermott and Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 Lv. Many-Glacier Hotel (auto) - 1:30 Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel - - 5:30 Ar. Prince of Wales Hotel - - - 5:30 ' ' -• ••—• s, s,•:-.;-__r_.,r 52------P—..\) I), '1',.,.:T ,,,.. eete,,,,,fin ,, 5 ',memo 4A33 le A K , .,,T•Itt A \ZRINEE
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