Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-31

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/ -o"IiS' oeEinS WIN '1I' entrance 10 '"e
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! west OF calgary /" see tHI' range
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way " adSiiEh'' stopping on al hau"'
Lake Louise ana SlcamohS overnight
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diah hocNleS through "hich we pass
comoine tour dlSllhc' national PARIS
canada mas the greatest area ana IN
some respects the most wonderful ma
jonal parks IN Inc "ofId, Hoth the
government and the CANADIAN Pac!hc
Railway are spending large sums in
developing these parks, making them
accessloie 10 tourists, so that they are
rapidly becoming the Fairgrounds or
the world. These gigantic mountains
nave been thrown up on so vast a
scale tHat the human can with an
HcNlty grasp thclr greatness except by [
some comparison. Il takes transconti'I
mental trains tWenty-toar hours to pass
through ana over TINS range. TWO or
me best known railway routes across I
the SWISS APPS are the -. Gouhard
and the Sunplon. and in each case 4 /
requires only I'VE hours by express
trains. When, therefore, it is said
SWitzerlands thrown into one it Isl
no eNaggeration. Here snowy peaks, I
glaciers, rugged precipices, waterfalls, I
iodminG torrents, canyons and lakes
nave been thrown together in unpar I
di!eled protusion on q scale found no ,
where in Europe.
| There are few achievements in his
/ tory parallel TO the building Of the
/ canadian Pacific Railway across TO.
! calgary over the Kicking Horse and
! through the Fonnaught tunnel. which
! IS i've miles long The road was be
/ @un IN lHti, and after eleven surveys
/ were made one was adopted and the
last spike was driven in 1850. Two
! OF the tunnels were engineered in
| spiral form, one OF ZOO feet, with
q rise Of itty-four feet; the other
/ 300 feet, with rise of forty-iiye feet
/ Tn" tourist can, therefore, witness the
! strange phenomenon OF a railroad
trayersing the valley by three lines
! at different elevations, crossing and
! rccrOsging the river by four bridges
! The only engineering feat have eve,
| Witnessed anywhere approaching this
Is the famous Georgetown Loop in
! Clear Creek Canyon, CoIcardO, whore
! the mounting of steep grade Is ac'I
! compIishcd by a succession Of bridges
and trestles. The only points of espe-
! cial interest on this route through the
! mountains at which | stopped were
| Bauf and Lake Louise Aside from
| the mountain around Bauff the beau.