The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-02
VILDS OF THE NORTH.
ONE WHO HAS TRAVERSED TUu
REGION
tells or This Little-Known Countrv
TIP to Great Slave Lakc-Land ~
Wonderful Hunting md Ft.htne.
Mighty Rivers and Raging Rapids.

I'd, April IL, says: AS a Chicagoan. one
VINO mas traversed much of the CONT
nent' ana not until recently realizing
Inc extent and geographical position
ana typographical character Of the
northern regions Of North America. Z
am aHorded an opportunity Of writing
% the Daily News from midway be-
tween the fifty-third and fifty-fourth
parallel of latitude and between lonqi-
tudlnal degrees one hundred and thir-
teen and one hundred and fourteen. Az
this town begins the Edmonton tran
depicted by the agents Of the Pacife
steamship routes to the Klondike ana
other Alaskan gold fields as the dead
nest OF routes to the arctic Eldorado.
Many a tenderfoot traveller bound arc
llcWard has persisted or been Lost on the
Edmonton trail. One had as well set
out IN q rowboat on the Atlantic and
hope to reach Queenstown without 4
compass as to undertake this overland
trip to the Yukon unless guided w
trappers or native Indians or halfA
breeds.
WAS BESET WITH DANGER,
In 1888 was one of party to witness
the departure Of Colonel W. H. Glider.
the New York explorer, who sought to
make dash overland to the pole. He
QUILTED himself at Winnipeg ana OBJ
tanned fresh supplies and dog trains ana
guides at Norway house, Hudson Bay
company's post at the head Of Lake.
Winnipeg. Although a trained traveller.
the colonel failed to get beyond Fort
Churchill, on the west shore Of Hudson
bay. Yet foolhardy persons green al
roughing 1t over the plains and :lnused
to the tricks of the most treacherous
streams, not to mention innumerabfa
lakes and soul-trying portages the trav-
ersing Of which would test the courage
and skill of the hardest Of voyagers.
have attempted to reach Bonanza creek
and Dawson City by dash northwest
ward over the Great Slave and Great
Bear lakes to the Mckenzie river and
thence over the mountains to Dawson.
FOR DEVOTEES OF ROD AND GUN.
Much has been written of trips to the
Klondike, but little has reached the
American press Of the great country
north and east Of Edmonton, which at
present has the distinction. Of being the
most northern railway terminus in
America, with the exception Of White
Horse Rapids, the northern terminus DC
the White Pass & Yukon railway built
by English capitalists and managed w
officials whose headquarters are III the
Chamber of Commerce building, Chica-
20. II @ lsAsS N h \
Some day. when Americans get over
the notion that a trip to the Canadian
northwest does not necessarily mean al
visit to the home of the Eskimo within
the arctic circle, the Edmonton country
in the province of Alberta and the
vaster region in the adjoining province
If Saskatchewan, will be the Mecca Of
he devotees of rod and gun.
The country surrounding Edmonton
s well settled where only few years
ago Hudson Bay company trappers,
half breeds and Indians formed the
Farmers seed here as ear-s
y If not earlier, than they do in Wis.,
'onsin or South Dakota, and to-day the
Whole country hereabouts is preparing
o display its carpet of wild flowers,
'oses, daisies and so on through the
ist I am reminded of the surprise ex-
PRESSED by Charles Counselman and
John G. Willing Of Chicago and John
}. Rockefeller and Alfred Vanderbilt,
# New York. when travelling in sepa-
ate parties, they noted the character
nd extent of the Canadian west as
cen from the cars Of the only real
railway in America,
hat which irons Canada from Halifax
n the Atlantic. to Vancouver on the
'acific coast. The writer had occasion
0 meet these men while they were trav-
ling for pleasure and they were amazed
With what they saw. Charles Counsel-
1an was especially surprised at the ex- III
emit of the wheat and grazing country;
ut it is the country away north of the
ailway with which this letter has to
cal and not that noted for its scenic
lory, which extends distance Of near
' six hundred miles across mountain
anges, compared with which the
hills farther south are 'holes in the
round,' as Senator Albert jeremiah
'everidge of Indiana said ono night
rhile stopping over at Banff, in the y
anadian National park. He was rest
lg up and preparing his views on the
from which he was return-
lg.
OuNTRY NORTH AND EAST OF
EDMONTON.
Away north and eastward and west
ard from Edmonton the prairies, criss-
,ossed by mighty rivers, well timbered
18th here and there great lakes, fed
ON the watersheds of the mountain
lnges, with their glacial arms, like
,ntaclea, in the clouds, extend from
le Rocky mountain foothills to Hud-
IN bay From Chicago to Edmonton
a matter of railway journey via
t. Paul or Minneapolis to Winnipeg,
from the win Cities to- Portal, on the
ternational boundary, and thence
past Maple creek near which
tting Bull was captured after the CusS- afss.
r massacre by Major Walsh, Cana
an northwest mounted policeman,
I'D through the country of the once-
rrible Blackfeet to Calgary, a ranch-
g town about eighty miles this side OF
ananaskis, gap in the eastern foot-
lis of the Rockies.
Over one hundred years ago, when
he honorable the Hudson Bay compa-
= of Adventures" launched under
val charter of Charles l., in 1870, and
e Aston fur hunters, in the pay of the
3rthwest company. fought fur trophies
the hunt, post was built at Edman-
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