The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-09-11

be9fd0s the country ITSELF THESE are
the Hudson Bay Company and the C.
p. r. The initials stand for the Cana
dian Pacific Railway, but everybody
calls 1t the G. p. r. have read OF
Canadian Pacific in the financial maya
xznss, and after an extended tour
over this wonderful system can well
understand why IL is considered an
excellent investment.
c. p. r. is one OF the great railroad
systems OF the world. and via its trains
and boats one can go almost around
the world. The system has $4,000
miles OF railroad and seventy-six steam
ships.
The C.P. r. has not only given Can
ada its greatest railroad, but it has
built chain of magnificent hotels
along that line that attract many peo-
pie every season. We have been in
the C. p. r. hotels at Winnipeg, Vic
toria. Calgary, Lake Louise and Banff.
They are as fine as you will find any
where. And they are all full this year.
At Banff we were told that $4,000
people this season had been turned
away from the c. p. r. hotel.
Every place we have been the hotels
have been crowded.
The section OF the Canadian Pacific
Railway between Vancouver and Cal
gary Il particularly interesting. not
only because IT passes through the
most spectacular scenery ON the North
American continent, but also OF Its his
torfc interest in the history of the Do
minion OF Canada British Columbia
agreed to enter into that Dominion
only on condition that a railway line
should be built eastward from the
coast. linking her with the Atlantic
and interior provinces, and the Cana
dian Pacific Railway was the result
This line was constructed in the face
of enormous natural obstacles. but
that fact has rendered accessible to
the traveller scenery OF unique mag
nificence which he now can see from
his comfortable C. p. R car. Leaving
Vancouver. the train follows the
south shore OF Burrard Inlet, with a
vista OF snow-upped mountains. and
sailing craft and steamers and RATS
OF sawn timber. Shortly after passing
Port Moody. the original terminus Of
the railway. the line leaves salt water
and trAverses a rich alluviai country
which has been reclaimed for the mar
ket gardeners and farmers who help
to feed the city. From Hammond the
railway follows the Fraser River for
1870 miles. Mount Baker in the State of
Washington, forming a conspicuous
landmark on the right
Mission is the junction for trains
from Seattle. At Agassiz is a Govern
ment Experimental Farm for fruit and
grain. and passengers get on here for
Harrison Hot Springs. popular sum-
mer resort
At Petain the Kettle Valley Railway
To the Okanagan and the Kootenays
q. ~ o - IN 49,
peaks OF Hope Mountains Yale. at
the head OF navigation on the Fraser.
was formerly tn toutftting point for
miners bound for the famous Carfboo
Mines further north. Here one enters
the romantic Fraser Canyon. where
the great river has forced its way
through tremendous cliffs of black
rocks. Climbing along edges cut and
blasted out of the side OF the precipice,
the travellers look on the foaming cata-
racts 200 feet below, and the deep
pools where in August the salmon rest
on their strenuous passage to the
spawning beds Indians may be seen
on projecting rocks down at the wa
ter's edge spearing salmon-at other
places Cinnamon at the gravel bars
waiting for gold
At Lytton the train leaves the Fraser
Thomdson River with brilliantly col
ored cliffs. through crevices in which
are seen occasionally snowy peaks.
Two miles beyond Basque comes the
Black Canyon. out OF which Il energies
into Ashcroft. the modern point OF de-
partnre for Carfboo and Northern Brit
ish Columbia An orchard country fol-
lows. the capital OF which Is Kamloops.
with famous trout ut Fish Lake
We visited Kamioops as we came
west. taking drive around The little
city and returning to our cars staid
all night by the river bank In the out
skirts of the town Knmloops has the
best street lighting system l ever saw
in n small city.
At Shuswap the railway skirts the
great Shuswap Lake. marvellous
sporting country with no less than
seven varieties OF game fish. Salmon
Arm serves many orchards. and Sica-
nous is the junction for the branch
line which runs down south TO the
great apple orchards OF the okana-
gan Valley. At Craigeilachis. on No.
vember 9TH. 1855, the last spike was
driven linking the lines OF the C. p.
II East and West. Reveispoke pro-
vldes the FIRST crossing of the Columbia
River, which flows here from the
north. although It rises considerably
to the southeast The center OF great
mining and numbering region, Revel-
stoke Is attracting many tourists,
and n National Park has been reserved
with an automobile road to the sum
NIT OF Mount Revelstoke. Here the