Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-30
CANADIAN CROPS
 EXCELLENT
Returning Tourists Speak We'll of Their Treatment in
 Canada.

The Canadian Government, having made extensive preparations during the last few years to impart to the National Park system degree of com fort and pleasure to the visitor, com bining the best efforts of man with the very best gifts of creation, has now the satisfaction of seeing an apprecia- ton of the efforts they have made. Tourists returning from trip over the Canadian Pacific. the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern railways speak enthusiastically of the beauties that are revealed as these roads enter and pass through the mountains. The Government has spent enormous sums of money laying out reads, and developing easy means "f access to glacier, hill, valley, lake and stream. For what purpose? That the wonders that Canada possesses in its natural parks may become more easily accessible and afterward talked about that a tourist travel through Canada would result. Tourist travel means business, and it is business that Can ada seeks. To make it even more easy for this travel. the Government has taken pains to make every step of the tourists entry into Canada one that will give the very least degree of trou- ble. On crossing the border, there is only the ordinary examination of bag gage, and the only precaution is that in the case of foreign aliens, and even in their case there is no difficulty when the officials are satisfied that they are not attempting entry as enc mics.
 Although officials of the Government have taken every means to bring to the attention of the tourist and others that no difficulty could be placed in the way of their admission, there still remained doubt in the minds of some. Only the other day the Government took action again, and authorized the statement that no measures taken for recruiting the forces either have been or will be applied to any persons who are not ordinarily resident in the Do- minion. Nor is 1t the intention to ask for volunteers except from among Brit ish subjects, resident in Canada. More over. the Military Service Act, under which conscription is applied in Great Britain, affects only persons 'ordinar- fly resident in Great Britain"
 Americans and British subjects resi- dent in the United States who de sire to visit Canada will find no more trouble at the border than they have experienced in the past, and upon ar irving they will be made as welcome as ever. War conditions of any kind will not inconvenience or interfere with them.
 The immigration authorities sug- gest that, as a precautiOn against in convenience, naturalized Americans whose country of origin was one of those at war with the British empire. should provide themselves with their certificates of naturalization.
 Now that 1t is impossible to visit Europe, the planning of your vacation trip through Canada is one to give consideration to. The Government has taken an active interest in its Ma tional Parks in the heart of the Rocky mountains. These can be reached by any of the lines of railways, and the officials at these parks have been ad- vised to render every attention to the visiting tourists, who in addition to see ing the most wonderful scenery in the world-nothing grander-nothing bet ter-have excellent wagon and motor roads, taking them into the utter re- eesses of what was at one time con- sidered practically inaccessible.
 In addition to this the tourist will not be inactive to the practical pos abilities that will be before him as he passes over the great plains of the Western Provinces. The immense wheat fields, bounded by the horizon. no matter how far you travel. The wide pasture lands, giving home and food to thousands of heads of horses and cattle. The future of a country that he before only heard of but knew so little about, will be revealed to him in the most wonderful panorama. and imprinted in the lens of his brain in such a way that he will bring back with him the story of the richness of Agricultural Western Canada. And he will also have had an enjoyable outing.