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Win The Kovai .-uexanara All year 47.3 2.00 up At Station

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Banff, Alta. ( B. 1.00 .. May 15- 350 4.00 up - L. 1.00 1% miles—25 cents Oct. 15 / D. 1.50

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Empress Hotel, Victoria, B. C. Eastern Tours Through the Canadian Pacific Rockies

THE discovery of a route across the Rockies constructed mountain hotels at convenient eastern Ontario. Toronto, within easy reach of for the Canadian Pacific Railway took points along the line, where one may rest and Niagara Falls, Ottawa, the capital of the twelve years, but never was labor be:ter perhaps spend some time exploring among the Dominion, Montreal, under the shadow of rewarded. The last spike connecting East and glaciers, riding on sure-footed ponies on the Mount Royal, Quebec, the fortress city com- surely West was driven thirty years ago, on Novem- mountain trails, or climbing with experienced manding the St.Lawrence— these are Here we are ber 7, 1885, and the millions who have since Swiss guides the peaks which prick the sky in not to be passed by too quickly. to Americans traveled along this wonderful highway, cut out such profusion. Sicamous is a half-way house on historic ground, of vital interest in the old of the precipitous cliffs of the Fraser Canyon, between Vancouver and Calgary, and those as well as Canadians. For Quebec under the winding under the snow-capped peaks of three who have no time to stop off elsewhere, but French Canadian days, and even later the great country vast ranges, crossing and recrossing foaming still wish to make an all-daylight trip through E'.ritish flag, held sway over outposts on the torrents deep down below— these millions have the mountains will find here a comfortable hotel. south of the Great Lakes, with one unanimous thought that for sheer grandeur After the Rockies come 900 miles of prairie Mississippi. at each of the Canadian Pacific Railway is without rival. fertile farming land, the bread-basket of the A stop-over of at least one day mountains — It takes twenty-four consecutive hours on an British Empire. Then a thousand miles of the five beauty spots of the Banff and Balfour— express train to cross the . romantic forest and stream and rock, or if you Glacier, Field, Lake Louise, The wise man breaks his journey so that he can choose to vary the rail journey, take ship at should be arranged. Canadian Pacific during see it all by daylight, and to assist this praise- Fort William for the Great Lakes and pass Travelling over the because of the worthy intention, the Canadian Pacific las through Sault Ste. Marie to Lake Huron and the summer is most delightful, Eastern Tours

uniformly cool temperature in the mountains VANCOUVER north of the international boundary line. THE terminal of the Canadian Pacific's transcontinental rail lines and its Trans- from California have the PASSENGERS Pacific steamship routes, is the largest choice of either an overland trip or a sea commercial center in . voyage to Portland or Seattle. From Vancouver rests on the shores of Burrard Francisco, the picturesque Shasta Route of San Inlet and has an excellent harbour nearly land- the Southern Pacific, or the San Francisco & locked and fully sheltered. It faces a beautiful Steamship Company, or the Pacific Portland range of mountains that are tipped with snow Steamship Company's steamers, or the Coast the year round. Two peaks, silhouetted against Northern Pacific steamers may be used. Great the sky, remarkably resembling two couchant Victoria and Vancouver, from Seattle, the To lions, are visible from almost any point in the Canadian Pacific Railway operates the mag- city or on the harbour. nificent "Princess" steamers. The fastest and In and around Vancouver are immense lumber and best equipped on the Pacific coastwise trade, shingle mills, having big payrolls and tremendous outputs. these have an average speed of eighteen knots Mining, lumbering, farming and shipping form the bul- wark of the city's phenomenal growth and prosperity. per hour, and are in constant touch by wireless All kinds of water sports are possible at Vancouver, and with land stations en route. This is the most are encouraged through a mild climate and extensive enjoyable 165-mile inland water trip in America, bodies of water. There are many bathing beaches, parks, and passengers travelling eastward via the boulevards, automobile roads and paved streets. Stanley Canadian Pacific Railway may include this Park, one of the largest natural parks in the world, is excellently maintained by the city. delightful steamer trip additional without Hotel Vancouver, of the Canadian Pacific Hotel expense. The scenery is of ever -changing System, is second to none on the Pacific Coast, and has a beauty. high reputation for the excellency of its service. Wonder- At Mission the Canadian Pacific Railway ful views can be had from the roof of this great hotel. It is only a short run by Canadian Pacific steamer to rail connection from Seattle joins the main line. Nanaimo, where the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway This line, operated in connection with the connects with the beauty spots of . Northern Pacific Railway Company, gives the From Vancouver the Company's famous "Princess" Vancouver Hotel traveller the option of an all-water or all-rail steamships offer splendid service to Victoria, Seattle, northern British Columbia, and Alaska; the "White route from Seattle to Vancouver. The Empress Hotel, first of the chain of Canadian Empresses" cross the Pacific to Japan and China. The Pacific hostelries, gives the guest attention and service Canadian-Australasian Line runs regularly from Van- the VICTORIA equalled only by the best in the land. It overlooks couver to Honolulu, Suva (Fiji), New Zealand and inner harbour and is within a stone's throw of the Parlia- Australia. CHARMINGLY situated on Vancouver ment buildings. Island, overlooking the Straits of Juan From Victoria delightful excursions may be made into de Fuca, Victoria has been aptly described the interior of Vancouver Island either by automobile or along for 500 continuous miles by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. The Malahat WINDING as being a transported section of Old England. east of Vancouver the main line of the Drive is one of the most picturesque motor roads in It is distinctly a home city, although its enter- America. Excellent hotels are to be found at Shawnigan Canadian Pacific leads through scenery prising business district, composed of imposing Lake and Qualicum Beach and a delightful little chalet such as can be found nowhere else on earth. inn proves one stores and tall office buildings, speaks of a rich at Cameron Lake. Mount Arrowsmith But a few miles out of Vancouver the steel trail of the best climbs and Qualicum Beach has a good, commerce twist turn its way through a drawn from a territory full of mineral on the begins to and sporting golf course. There is no better fishing and and agricultural resources. Victoria's beauty Pacific Coast than that which one finds on the Campbell gigantic fairyland of unbelievable beauty lies in her residential districts, her boulevards, River, reached by motor from Courtenay, the northern magnificence. The stupendous masses of rock, her parks and her public buildings. The parlia- terminus of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway. The piled literally to the sky, crowned with scintil- immense Douglas fir forests on this beautiful island and ment buildings of British Columbia rank among lating snow which reflects back the sunlight in the balmy climate make it wonderfully attractive to the part the handsomest in America. tourist. all the colors of the spectrum, are only a Canadian Pacific Etockies

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Pacific Railway at Midway, the train passes Leading from trail the of the panorama unreeled, mile by mile, as the by lake and the station a good follows mountain till the beautiful defile of the turbulent course of the Illicillewaet River to the Great train proceeds. is reached. Out of the windows one looks down upon Illicillewaet Glacier and valley; other trails branch ofl Hope is the junction for the Kettle Valley the sapphire waters of that noble stream, flanked by tall in all directions, inviting and leading the mountain- Railway, a new branch line to the orchards of trees and overtowering heights. The train reaches climber, explorer and lover of Nature to scenes of mar- Nelson in the evening and though the boat for Balfour velous grandeur and enchanting beauty. Glacier Crest. the southern Okanagan Valley and the and the East does not leave till next morning, one can Lake Marion and Observation Point are among the Kootenays, the mining districts of southern go straight on board to one's comfortable berth. shorter and easier ascents. Mount Abbot is a day's British Columbia, and the prairies of southern North Bend is situated in the heart of the climb, but not a difficult one. From its summit an exceptionally fine view is obtained of the Asulkan Valley. , thus providing an interesting alter- Fraser Canyon, amid awe-inspiring surroundings. Easy trails also lead up to the summits of Eagle Peak native route to the main line. The Canyon of the Thompson is entered beyond and Mount Avalanche. The ascent of Mount Sir The first station on the way up from Hope, just north Ashcroft. Its angry waters rush along in a Donald is more difficult, but with the assistance of of the Coquihalla River Canyon, is named Othello, the perfect maelstrom. After the junction with the experienced guides may readily be accomplished. beauty of which it is difficult to describe, while there An excellent trail leads to the Asulkan Glacier, through Fraser, at Lytton, the scenery assumes still is good trout fishing and shooting in its vicinity. Jessica scenes of Alpine splendor, and the recently discovered wilder aspect. is the third station within about two miles or so of Caves of Nakimu are only distant about seven miles Ladner Creek, in a district of great natural beauty. At Sicamous the traveller may board the from Glacier House by a good bridle path. These At Portia the railway reaches an elevation of about branch line train to Vernon and other points wonderful caverns have been formed by the action of 2,000 feet above sea level. The country has a very water for ages upon the solid rock, and form a series of in the Okanagan Valley. At Sicamous the rocky, mountainous aspect at the next station, which is chambers with large entrances, polished rock ceilings, Canadian Pacific Railway has a splendid hotel, called I ago, to keep up the Shakespearean tradition. and walls which sparkle with quartz crystals and reflect Near Romeo there is a charming view looking up towards which forms an excellent headquarters for those myriads of miniature lights. a bald, rocky mountain from Slide Creek bridge. who wish to stay over to shoot, fish or make a Over Selkirk Summit, through Rogers' Pass, Coquihalla Summit is opposite two delightful lakes. daylight trip through the mountains. the train passes through a marvelous district of From this point the track falls both ways, the average gradient going west being about 2.2 per cent, whilst that From Revelstoke (see page 18 for Alternative wooded mountains, deep ravines and tempest-

going east being much lighter, about I per cent. The Route) the line passes through Twin Butte to uous streams. From the train one can see the elevation of Coquihalla Summit is about 3,300 feet above Albert Canyon. Just east of the station the ends of the great tunnel now being pierced sea level. The lakes are full of trout and are most train runs suddenly along the very brink of mountains. interesting from a geological point of view on account through the solid of the many crater holes in the formation, caused, it is several remarkably deep fissures in the supposed, from gaseous emanations in ages past. Juliet, rock, whose walls rise straight up hundreds of FIELD AND THE YOHO VALLEY the next station, is eternally separated from Romeo by feet on both sides to wooded crags, above which the summit. At Slide Creek there are some picture rocks, STOP-OVER for the night at the Mount sharp distant peaks cut the sky. The most rude representations of a horse, supposed to have been Stephen House at Field, another of the impressive of these canyons is the Albert, where painted by the Indians at some remote date. Penticton, A hotels, gives Canadian Pacific's mountain at the lower end of , is half way house the river is seen nearly one hundred and fifty one the opportunity of seeing one of the most to Nelson, and as such has an excellent hotel, The Incola. feet below the railway, compressed into a boiling The balmy, equable climate of the lower Okanagan Valley, picturesque districts in the Canadian Rockies. flume scarcely twenty feet wide. the excellent motoring, the delightful bathing, the oppor- DRIVES AND PONY TRIPS tunities for motor-boating, sailing, fishing, and, at the GLACIER A CLIMBING CENTER distant, is reached proper seasons, for hunting, combine to make this an EMERALD LAKE, seven miles ideal holiday resort. Penticton is in the center of one by a good carriage road down the bank of the the summit of the Selkirk Range lies of the most fertile orchard districts in British Columbia NEAR Kicking Horse River and thence around the base and as such has a well-settled community to take part Glacier, in the midst of a region of mighty of Mount Burgess. On the wooded shore of this in any social activities. Penticton is also the southern peaks and glaciers, woods and waterfalls. beautiful lake the Company has built a picturesque terminus of the Canadian Pacific steamers plying on the Seeming but a few hundred feet away, but in Swiss chalet. Okanagan Lake, the northern terminus being Okanagan It is an extremely beautiful fourteen-mile drive to reality more than two miles, heap up the Landing, which has excellent train service through the celebrated Takakkaw Falls, of the Yoho Valley, a ice piles of Illicillewaet feet into Vernon to Sicamous, on the main line of the Canadian massive the great silver thread of glacial origin dropping 1 ,200 Pacific Railway. From Penticton the railway climbs up Glacier. To its left towers the monolith of a still and mighty-treed valley. A trail continues up great Wapta through the benches to a height which commands a Mount Sir Donald to a height of a mile and a the valley, past Laughing Falls, and the magnificent view of Okanagan Lake, then descends Glacier to the curious Twin Falls, two immense jets of quarter above the railway. Another of the point through forest-clad ranges by romantic canyons till the spray that unite in mid-air. The trail leads to a affords farms and settlements of the lower Kettle Valley are Canadian Pacific's mountain hotels, here, above the falls from which a wonderful view may be reached. After the junction is made with the Canadian an opportunity for a delightful sojourn. obtained. Other pleasant excursions from Field may be

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interest within short distance of Field — made to points of a BANFF This is the largest undertaking of its kind in such as the Fossil Beds, Aerial Silver Mines, Natural America and is well worth a visit. From Calgary Bridge and Monarch Mine Cabins. many years Banff, the gateway to the FOR a branch line runs to Edmonton, the enterprising Between Field and Hector, near the summit Canadian National Park, has attracted tourists and lovers of capital of Alberta. of the Rockies, one of the greatest engineering Nature from all corners of earth. in At Calgary the Canadian Pacific Railway has feats of the century has been accomplished. the Situated the heart of completed another immense hotel, The Hotel To reduce the steep grade of the western slope the Canadian Rockies, in the midst of primeval surroundings, wilderness Palliser, undoubtedly the most imposing struct- of the Rockies, the line has been lengthened, with a of untrodden ure in Calgary. Externally the building is and two immense spiral tunnels have been crags and peaks radiating in every direction and French Renaissance. It comprises ten floors, driven through the solid rock, each tunnel with abounding in game of large and small variety, with a roof garden and sun it bids the sportsman, the naturalist, and the parlor on the roof, approaches making a complete loop of track. from mountain-climber welcome. The traveler seek- which a magnificent view of the snow- capped Rockies ing a holiday can find all his wants supplied at can be had. There are no LAKE LOUISE, PEARL OF THE ROCKIES "inside the finest mountain hotel in the world, the rooms" in the Palliser, it being so built IS three miles by narrow-gauge motor line that every room gets sufficient light. A mag- IT Canadian Pacific Banff Springs Hotel, recently from the Canadian Pacific Railway station much enlarged. Sulphur springs and bathing nificent ball room and palm room are other to Lake Louise. pools, also an excellent golf course and tennis attractive features. Medicine called The Chicago Evening Post says: court, form another of the many attractions at Hat, by Kipling "the town that is "Such glory of light and color, such a spark- this resort. was born lucky," lighted with natural ling mirror water, such magnificence of evergreen gas, the low price of which has attracted many mountains and rocky steeps, and snow and ice PONY TRIPS AND DRIVES AT BANFF industries to this city. and clouds, may exist in other variations, but THERE are many interesting spots in the vicinity, ALTERNATIVE TRIP FROM REVELSTOKE TO nowhere in the world can they be surpassed. all easily accessible by good carriage roads and MEDICINE HAT Lake Louise is the gem for which the Canadian bridle paths. A short distance from Banff Springs Hotel are the Falls, a cataract of wonderful who leave the main line of the Canadian Rockies are the setting." Bow THOSE beauty; , from which a splendid view Pacific at Revelstoke, find a delightful and fascinat- Picturesquely ing alternative route to Medicine Hat, via situated on the verge of the of the valley is obtained, and the Cave and Basin, a Arrow- lake is the Chateau Lake Louise, one of the remarkable formation from which gush natural sulphur head, at the head of the beautiful Arrowhead Lakes, by steamer to West Robson, thence by rail to finest of the Canadian Pacific hotels, where springs. Within a radius of three miles are the Hoodoos, Nelson, is again natural concrete pillars of various shapes and sizes. where steamer taken on the charming excellent accommodation is afforded. Cascade Mountain, Stoney Squaw Mountain, the beautiful to Balfour, one hour's run, where the Vermilion Lakes, the animal paddocks and Sun Dance Canadian Pacific Railway has recently erected a very comfortable hotel, with magnificent views of lake DRIVES AND PONY TRIPS AT LAKE LOUISE Canyon, a deep and curious cleft in the mountain. At a and mountain. distance of nine miles is LakeMinnewanka, a pretty sheet FROM Lake Louise (altitude 5.645 feet) good trails lead to the principal features of interest in the of water, extremely deep, and walled in by tremendous BALFOUR cliffs. The lake is sixteen miles long, with a width of vicinity. It is an easy ascent to Mirror Lake SITUATED on the west arm of Kootenay Lake, (altitude, 6,550 feet) and Lake Agnes (altitude, from one to two miles. Two steam launches make the midway between Nelson and Kootenay Landing, 6,820 feet) which literally nestle amid the clouds, round trip daily. and directly opposite Proctor, Balfour is a delight- encircled by majestic peaks. It is a three-mile trip to ful spot in the center of the Kootenay Country of Saddleback Mountain, which commands an inspiring CALGARY lower British Columbia. It nestles amid snow-capped view of the famous Paradise Valley. At a distance of mountains in a country full of lakes and streams. The about ten miles is Moraine Lake, situated at the head of SOON after leaving Banff the country changes Canadian Pacific Railway has an excellent hotel, where the valley of the Ten Peaks, and reached over a good in character, and instead of viewing a sea the tourist or sportsmen can enjoy out-of-door life in carriage road recently constructed. Good camping his or her own particular way. There are five excellent of mountain peaks and snow-capped ranges, facilities are afforded on the shore of the lake in the tennis courts, and the annual tournaments draw visitors out on midst of scenic surroundings of surpassing beauty and prosperous ranches and farms are spread from all British Columbia. Fast boats, excellently grandeur. The Victoria Glacier, a great palisade of either side of the tracks. Calgary enjoys the furnished, ply Kootenay Lake and give easy connections hanging snow, , a deep canyon between distinction of being the largest city in the with Nelson and Kootenay Landing. Mounts Victoria and Lefroy, O'Hara Lake, set amid From Balfour one takes Pacific Railway immense Province of Alberta. the Canadian surroundings of wild Alpine grandeur, Cataract Creek. steamer to Kootenay Landing. From Kootenay Landing Paradise Valley and the Ptarmigan Lakes, are among the Calgary is the headquarters of the great irri- to Medicine Hat the route leads through the rich mining notable spots well worthy of a visit. gation system of the Canadian Pacific Railway. regions of the Kootenay and the vast agricultural districts

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CONTINUING our journey across the prairies from NIPIGON AND SUDBURY Medicine Hat, the most important towns passed on the way to Winnipeg are: Swift Current, Moose FOLLOWING on by the main line, at Nipigon, Jaw, Regina, Indian Head, Brandon and Portage la situated at the mouth of the Nipigon River, Prairie. Regina is the headquarters of the Royal North- fishermen from many, many miles gather west Mounted Police. yearly to capture the speckled trout for which WINNIPEG this neighborhood is renowned. Sudbury is the junction point, where the main at the confluence of the Red and the SITUATED line of the Canadian Pacific to Toronto leaves Assiniboine rivers, both navigable by steamers. Winnipeg handles more wheat than any other port the main line to Montreal. This gives the third on the North American continent. It is the capital optional route from Winnipeg to Montreal, viz., Balsam Lake, Revelstoke of the Province of Manitoba. Formerly it was the one lake and one rail, via Toronto, and one Hudson's Bay Company's chief trading post. Fort Garry. direct via the Sudbury-Montreal main line. A network of rail lines connect Winnipeg with all parts Within a few miles of Sudbury (population, of the continent in much the same way as Chicago is 7,061) and reached by two short lines of railway, Crowsnest Branch of the linked to all parts of North America. Here the Canadian of southern Alberta, via the are the most extensive copper and nickel deposits Canadian Pacific Railway. At Medicine Hat the main Pacific Railway has the largest individual railway yards in the world. line of the Canadian Pacific is again resumed. in the world, having more than 130 miles of trackage. known The Canadian Pacific Railway has a magnificent hotel LINE EASTWARD FROM SPOKANE at Winnipeg, the Royal Alexandra. SOO CONNECTION FROM TWIN CITIES FROM Spokane and Kingsgate one may join the From Winnipeg a branch line of the Canadian Pacific Crowsnest Branch of the Canadian Pacific, through Railway runs south, connecting at Emerson with the SUDBURY the important subdivision — which a romantic mining region to Medicine Hat, on the train service of the Soo Line to Minneapolis, St. Paul ATcrosses the St. Mary's River on an immense steel bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, and which follows the main line. From Medicine Hat easterly the line and Chicago. A through train is operated between north shore of Lake Huron joins the main line. of travel includes Swift Current and Moose Jaw, also on Winnipeg and the Twin Cities. — the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. At Through trains, having every modern improvement, are Leaving Winnipeg and Manitoba at Ingolf, the Lake operated this route from Minneapolis and St. Paul Moose Jaw the traveller has another choice, and may go via of the Woods district in Ontario is entered, where flour to Montreal. Connection is also made at Sault Ste. Marie to Chicago via St. Paul and Minneapolis, or via St. Paul mills, pulp mills and sawmills are in operation day and with trains from Duluth. and Sault Ste. Marie to Montreal, traveling over the night. The prairies are left behind and the traveller Soo Line, or may continue over the main line of the passes through a picturesque region of forests, lakes, TORONTO Canadian Pacific to Montreal. If desired, tickets will be rivers, rocks and ravines to Fort William and Port Arthur, routed via Winnipeg and St. Paul without additional over 400,000 inhabitants, Toronto at the head of the Great Lakes. Fort William is situated WITH expense. Certain tickets allow stop-over privileges at all holds second place among the cities of at the mouth of the Kaministikwia River, a broad, deep the large cities in Canada, and the option of at least two stream, with firm banks, affording extraordinary advan- Canada and is growing rapidly in popula- different routes, but routes must be selected prior to tages for lake traffic. The fine steel lake steamships of tion, wealth and industry. 1 1 is noted for its beau- purchasing ticket. No matter what route is taken, the the Canadian Pacific Railway Company ply between tiful residential districts, its high buildings, its traveller has first-class accommodation—diners, observa- here and Port McNicoll, thus giving the tourist practi- well-lighted and paved streets, spacious parks, ex- tion and buffet cars. From Spokane another route is cally a water route to Toronto. Conveniences to be found sys- through the beautiful Kootenay and , via only on trans-oceanic steamers are to be had on these cellent boulevards and splendid educational Kingsgate, Nelson, West Robson and Arrowhead, to magnificent passenger steamships. tem. The Canadian Pacific Railway's new office Revelstoke, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific building, here, is one of the landmarks of the city. Railway, with no additional cost. GREAT LAKES TRIP From Toronto there are many short and very interest- BOARDING a Canadian Pacific Railway steamer ing trips to pleasure resorts and places of picturesque and KOOTENAY CENTRAL RAILWAY BYat Fort William, the traveller may travel down the historical interest. alternative route of exceptional beauty leaves Kaministikwia River, passing Port Arthur on Unmatched Niagara is but eighty miles by rail, and ANEWthe main line at Golden and goes south through Thunder Bay, thence across the bay and rounding thirty miles by water, away from Toronto. The Canadian the valley lying between the Rockies and the Thunder Cape, directly across Lake Superior to Sault Pacific gives a free trip to the Falls and return to all Selkirk mountains to join the Crowsnest Branch Ste. Marie, a large manufacturing city. From here the passengers over the Canadian Pacific Railway from United States at Colvalli. The Windermere district is a centre in this route followed is down St. Mary's River, through the Winnipeg or points west of points in the valley for excursions up Toby Creek and Horse Thief new channel of Hay Lake and across Lake Huron and south or east of Sherbrooke, Que., Newport or Swanton, Creek to the great glaciers of the Selkirks, and has a Georgian Bay to Port McNicoll. where a transfer from Vt.. or Rouses Point, N.Y. Also to passengers en route to comfortable tourist hotel at Invermere near Athalmer. boat to train is made, and the traveller reaches Toronto. Europe holding transportation via the Canadian ports. 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Those who make their eastbound journey by way of Toronto have the advantage of being able to travel to Toronto over the new Lake Ontario Shore Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Montreal, one of the most picturesque regions in eastern Canada. OTTAWA THE capital of the Dominion is picturesquely situated at the junction of the Rideau and Ottawa rivers. The residence of the Gover- nor-General, H. R. H. Duke of Connaught Rideau Hall— is within the city limits. MONTREAL FAST trains connect Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, the largest city of Canada. Montreal has a population of over half a million and is the heaquarters for the Canadian Pacific Railway. From Mount Royal, after which the city was named, Montreal appears spread out like an immense relief map. One Reaping, Western may spend hours on the summit of this moun- Canada tain gazing on the magnificent panorama. The Canadian Pacific ™ e R.°y al Alexandra Place Viger Hotel is one of the Wmmpeg city's best. Eastern Tours

n the Sault Ste. Marie Locks

QUEBEC FROM Montreal it is but a few hours' ride over the Canadian Pacific Railway to Quebec, which, with its old-time walled city; its Chateau Frontenac, the excellent

Canadian Pacific hotel ; its French-speaking population; crooked streets; curious vehicles, and its enchanting atmosphere, is easily the most romantic place in Canada. The Chateau Frontenac, built on the site of the old Chateau St. Louis, is a modern hotel built on the pattern of an old chateau, with all of the charm and none of the inconveniences. ST. JOHN—HALIFAX SCENERY through delightful hills, well-kept farming districts and country filled with bits of lakes, brooks, and streams is to be seen on both sides of the track in traveling from Montreal to St. John and Halifax, or any of the other pretty cities or towns of the mari- time provinces. St. Andrews-by-the-Sea is one of the most attractive seaside resorts in Canada. Here the Canadian Pacific has built a charming summer hotel, the Algonquin, much frequented by Americans as well as by the leaders in

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Acadians— these have a charm that well might beyond, away to the far blue barrier of the draw the traveller across the continent from the Parrsboro shore, the restless waters of Minas Pacific. Basin, yellow in the foreground, but in the dis- Cool, picturesque, hospitable and entirely tance purple, sapphire green, or silver, as unconventional, the "Land of Evangeline" is changing hour and changing sky may decree; just the place where the average man who loves and in the middle distance, dominating all the to bathe in salt water or angle in fresh water; scene with its mass of sombre indigo, the who likes boating that is exciting, but not too majestic bastion of Blomidon out-thrust against hazardous; hill-climbing that is not too strenu- the tides. These are effects of full daylight; but ous; hotel life that is not too fashionable, and by the aerial magic of sunrise (too seldom seen!) farmhouse hospitality that is typically Canadian, and the voluptuous sorcery of sunset such trans- Place Viger Hotel, Montreal can find his or her heart's desire. formations are wrought as make the scene an This ocean-washed, breeze-caressed peninsula, ever-changing realm of faery." that is almost an island, is big enough to accom- Three miles distant, to the east, is Grand Pre Canadian society. St.John and Halifax are both modate ten million summer visitors without itself, now a rich but scattered farming settle- busy, progressive seaports. In Nova Scotia, over-crowding. It is difficult to get away from ment. It is on the line of the Dominion Atlantic, along the Dominion Atlantic Railway, "Evange- the sight or smell of the salt water in any part and travellers who are passing through obtain line Land" and Acadia attract thousands every of it. Even the atmosphere of the orchard- from the car windows a good view of the scene year, for time has been lenient in its treatment filled, blossom-scented valleys is tinctured with of the Great Banishment. There are the storied of these places, which have been themes for it. Nowhere is there ozone with the same meadows, and there, close to the station, are historians and poets for two hundred years. subtle qualities. willows planted by Acadian hands. On the Three routes from Montreal to New York And bathing, boating and fishing are by no slope behind the station are gnarled French present themselves: The tourist may continue means the whole story of Nova Scotia summer apple trees and stiff French poplars, and a short by way of Lakes Champlain and George and by vacation life. The continent affords no finer way further on is the Gaspereau mouth, where the Hudson River, or via the all-rail routes facilities for driving, "camping-out," golfing and the exiles embarked. through the Adirondacks, through the State of hunting, nor is there a better place on the "foot- The ancient Acadian village which Colonel Vermont, or along the shore of Lake Champlain. stool" for the enjoyment of that simplest and Winslow and his New Englanders depopulated Those en route to Portland, Me., or Boston, most satisfying of all forms of summer "loafing," so effectually in that eventful Autumn of 1775 Mass., may travel through the interesting White life on a farm. is supposed to have extended in a long, thin and Green Mountains to their destination on All this country is served by the Dominion line from about where the Grand Pre station of the Atlantic Coast reached by the Canadian Atlantic Railway in connection with the Cana- the Dominion Atlantic now stands to some- Pacific and its connections from Montreal. dian Pacific Railway. Wolfville is the chief where near the next station of Horton Landing. centre for visitors to the "Land of Evangeline." Then, as now, the Acadians trailed their villages EVANGELINE LAND, NOVA SCOTIA "Before the windows of Wolfville," says C. G. D. along a single street. Close to the station is a ACROSS the Bay of Fundy from St.John, Roberts, the well-known writer, "enrolls a row of gnarled willows, whose branches per- New Brunswick, lies the historic coast of superb view—marshes, of pale green, reclaimed chance tell over to the young leaves of each Nova Scotia, so full of romance, so beauti- from the sea by the spades of old-time Acadian recurring spring what they saw of Evangeline ful to the eye that the hearts of those who visit farmers; sharp strips of red or orange-tawny and her sorrow. Here, suitably enclosed, is it are kept in one perpetual enchantment. flats, where the retreating tide has left the beach "Evangeline's Well." Digby and the little fishing villages on this uncovered; to the left front a well-grouped A list of hotels and summer cottages available coast of giant tides, Annapolis Royal, with mem- cluster of white cottages, spires and masts about for visitors in this romantic country may be ories of Champlain and the first adventurous a bridge— the shipping village of Port Williams; found in the folder "Vacation Days in Nova explorers from Old France, the orchard and the long, low lines of green upland outstretching Scotia," obtainable from any Canadian Pacific dairy land of the Annapolis Valley, Evangeline's from either side to almost the center of the Railway agent, or from R. U. Parker, General country of Grand Pre and Blomidon and Minas picture— the delicious summer retreats of Starr's Passenger Agent, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Basin, the scene of the Great Banishment of the Point and Long Island; between them and Kentville, Nova Scotia. jLa«a.5iern Tours

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C. E. E. Ussher Passenger Traffic Manager Montreal MacInnes Freight Trafflcr Manager. .."..... W. R. . Montreal Geo. McL. Brown European Manager London Eng C. B. Foster Assistant Passenger Traffic Manager Montreal

. . . .Assistant Passenger C. E. McPherson Traffic Manager. , Winnipeg Snell General Passenger !* W. H. Agent. . . . Montreal General Passenger G. A. Walton Agent. . ..'... Winnipeg r H. W . Brodie General Passenger Agent Vancouver H. E. MacDonnell. . .Assistant Freight Traffic Manager Montreal W. B. Lanigan Assistant Freight Traffic Manager Winnipeg H. G. Drinh General Passenger Agent London F.ng Geo. C. Wells Assistant to Passenger Traffic Manager Montreal A. O. Seymour General Tourist Agent Montreal J. O. Apps General Baggage Agent Montreal J. M. Gibbon General Publicity Agent Montreal AGENCIES Auckland N.Z. .Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand (Ltd.). Belfast Ireland. .Wm. McCalla, Agent 41 Victoria Street Belli m. Gordon. Freight ng ha .Wash.W.H. and Pass'r Agent. . 11?, West. Holly Street

Birmingham . .Eng.W. T. Treadaway. Agent 4 Victoria Square

. Gen'l Boston . .Mass.. E.F.L.Sturdce. Agt. Pass'r I>ept. .332 Washington Street Brandon Man. J. A. McDonald. District Passenger Agent Brisbane Qd. .McDonald. Hamilton & Co Bristol ENG.. A. S. Ray. Agent 18 St. Augustlnes Parade

Brockville Ont. .Geo. E.McGlade, City Ticket Agent. . . • {court^HoufeTvenue Buffalo N.Y..L. R. Hart. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept 302 Main Street /-Thos. Cook & Son 9 Old Court talcuttar-i,..«, 1NmATNnI . House St. \Glllanders, Arbuthnot & Co

Calgary Alta . .Robert Dawson. District Pass'r Agent. . .113 Can.Pac.Stn. Bldg. Canton China. Jardlne. Matheson & Co Chicago III. T. J. Wall, Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept 224 South Clark Street

Cincinnati . . . .OHIO..M.E. Malone. General Agent Pass'r Dept. 430 Walnut Street Cleveland Ohio. Geo. A. Clifford, Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept .213 Euclid Avenue Detroit MICH.. A. E. Edmonds. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept .7 Fort Street West Duluth MiNN.Jas.Maney, G. P. A., D.S.S. & A. Ry Fidelity Building

Edmonton. . . .ALTA.Chas. S. Fyfe, City Ticket Agent 145 Jasper Ave. East Everett Wash.. A. B. Winter, Ticket Agent 1515 Hewitt Avenue

Fort William . .Ont. A. J. Boreham, City Passenger Agent. . . .404 Victoria Avenue Glasgow.. Scotland. .Thos. Russell, Agent 120 St. Vincent Street Halifax N.S..J. D.Chlpman, City Pass'r and Frt.Agt. .37 George Street Hamilton Ont. A. C'ralg, City Passenger Agent Cor. King & James Sts. Hong Kong China.. P. D. Sutherland. General Ag't Pass'r Dept.C. P. (.). S. (Ltd.) Honolulu H.I.Theo. H. Davles & Co

Kansas City. . ..Mo..K. A. Cook, Traveling Passenger Agent. .441 Sheldley Bldg.

6 -05 ch ar ' ' General Passenger Agent. / Drlng ' . J?

London Ont. H. J. McCallum, City Passenger Agent . . 161 Dundas Street

Los Angeles. . . Cal A. A. Polhamus. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept .70S South Spring Street

Melbourne Aus.. Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand (Ltd.) . .Thos. Cook & Son

Milwaukee Wis F. T. Sansom . Passenger Agent (Soo Line). 100 Wisconsin Street Minneapolis Minn U.S. El worthy. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept. .402 Nicollet Avenue

Montreal Que A. E. Lalande, City Passenger Agent.. . . 141-145 St.James street Nagasaki Japan Holme, Ringer & Co

Nelson B.C.. J. S. Carter, District Passenger Agent. . . ,F New York

UX>r. 30th St. Ottawa ONT..T. Mulllns. City Passenger Agent 42 Sparks Street Paris France. Aug. Catonl, Agent 1 Rue Scribe

Philadelphia. . ..Pa. R. C. Clayton. Cltv Passenger Agent 629 & (331 Chestnut St. Pittsburg Pa.. C.L.Williams. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept. 340 Sixth Avenue Portland Me Leon W. Merrlt. T. A.. Maine Cent. Rd .Union Depot

Portland Ore. J. V. Murphy. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept. . .55 Third Street

Quebec Que G. J. P. Moore, City Passenger Agent. . .{coi^palac! HuT*'

Regina Sask. .J. E. Proctor, District Passenger Agent. . 1812 Scarth Street SaultSte. Marie.ONT II. J. Moorehouse, City Passenger Agent

SaultSte. MarieMii'ii . W. J. Atchison, City Passenger Agent . . .224 Aslimun Street St. John N.B..M. G. Murphy. District Passenger Agent. 40 ard 42 King Street

St. Louis Mo E. L. Sheehan, Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept . .725 olive Street St. Paul MINN.. B.E.Smcc.l, Cltv Pass'r Agent (Soo Line). 379 Robert Street

San Francisco.. Cal.. F. L. Nason. Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept. . . .045 Market Street

Seattle Wash.. E. E. Penn, General Agent Pass'r Dept . . .713 Second Avenue

Shanghai. . China A. J. Blalsdell, Gen'l Agent Pass'r Dept... C. P. O. S. (Ltd.) Street Sherbrooke. . ..Que. E. II. Sewell. City Passenger Agent 74 Wellington Spokane Wash.W. II. Deacon, City Passenger Agent 603 Sprague Avenue Sydney ... Aus. .Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand (Ltd.) .. Tacoma Wash. II. M. Beyers, City Passenger Agent 1113 Pacific Avenue /-.^-/W. B.Howard, District Passenger Agent\. „.„ o Tor0nt0Tornr.*^ K,IUS Streettrppt PaE '' „5t ONT ' \Wm. Fulton. \sst. District Pass'r Agent ' Vancouver B.C.. J. Moe. Cltv Passenger Agent 434 Hastings St. West Victoria B.C. L. D. Chetham. City Passenger Agent ... 1102 Government St.

Washington . D.C C. E. Phelps. Cltv Passenger Agent 1419 N.Y. Avenue Winnipeg Man A. G. Richardson. District Pass'r Agent .Main and Portage Ave.

Yokohama. . .Japan . .G. M . Jackson. G.A.P.D.. C.P.< >.S.(Ltd.) 14 Bund EASTERN

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