Great Falls tribune., 1922-03-12
Canadian Trip in Overland
O. Q. Steller and Family Motor to Red Deer
and Return to Save on Carfare

! relief to know the children weren't
| being bounced to pieces and that
didn't have to try to hold them in. The
roads were in fairly good condition I'M
| til after leaving Shelby, and with the
! tripleX springs absorbing the shocks, |
settled comfortably in anticipation of
enjoying every minute of the trip.
Waited for Passports.
Our first stop was at the Marias
river about 10 miles this side of Shell
| BY. where we ate our lunch under the
trees and the children played with the
pebbles at the edge of the water. We
didn't stay there longer than necessary
i as we were anxious to get to Sweet
Grass as early as possible.
/ We arrived in Sweet Grass at 3 p.
m. and as both the United States Gus
tom officer and immigration officer
and the Canadian. custom officer and
| immigration officer were out of town
on a fishing trip, we had to wait there
| for their return, so that we could OBJ
tain our passports. 1t was dreary
Sunday afternoon that we spent IN
that small. treeless town, stuck out on
the prairie. We were beginning to de-
spair of leaving there that night, when
about quarter of seven they made
their appearance. 1t took but feW
minutes to answer the, necessary ques-
tions and obtain our passports.
We had set Taber as our destination
that night. but after leaving Sweet
Grass we had still 20 miles to go. We
knew we would have to travel after
dark on strange, not much Travelled
road in desolate country and we
surely would not have undertaken to
do it. but we knew we had depend
able little car and none of us had felt
tired from the trip, outside Of the tire
some wait
After making the children comfort
able in the tonneau so they could go TO
sleep we were off again, arriving in
Taber at II p. m. without any mis-
haps. except getting off the road
couple of times and going out of our
way about 20 miles. Thus ended the
first lap Of our journey without the
least bit of trouble-not even pune
ture
Country Resembles Northern Montana
We stayed at Taber the next day,
but Tuesday morning at q o'clock found
us on our way again. The country we
Travelled through. after leaving Iaber
for about 100 miles, is good deal like
northern Montana-one deserted farm
after another. as southern Alberta has
suffered from drouth as Montana for
the last five years. The country seems
like desert with so many of the
places overgrown with tumble weeds
and not a tree for miles. We were
surprised to find the roads so much
better on the Canadian side Of the line.
as there seems to be very little local
automobile traffic that particular
stretch.
We settled ourselves comfortably
and with the steady purring OF engine
sounding pleasantly in our ears, it
seemed no time until we were at High
River where we stopped again for gas.
tBy the way, we paid 80 cents gallon
for gas everywhere on the other side
Of the line, but of course the Canadian
gallon is some bigger than the Amerl-
can gallon, but it still brings gas quite
a bit higher than here
After leaving High River we were
on the Banff main travelled highway
and here we nearly flew, the speed
ometer registering as high as 43 miles,
but really we were Just as comfortable
and solid as though we were going |
but 10.
The country from High River to Red
Deer is paradise compared to south
ern Alberta. There were trees all
along the way and fields of grain were
beautiful, waving in the breeze, nearly |
as tall as a person. The farms were
MI prosperous looking. with nice big
painted houses and barns and well kept |
yards.
Over Caigary-Edmonton Trail.
We arrived in Calgary at p. IN. but
did not stop in the city as we were
anxious to make Red Deer before dark. !