Travel

Among the Canadian Alps

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Chapters

8. Part 8

The peculiar charm of Jasper Park, and of its sister reservation on the western side of the Pass, is in the fact that it is almost virgin ground. As a Park it is very young inde...

9. Part 9

When we had satisfied for the time his hunger for news of the outside world, we produced our rods and requested him to produce his trout. He grinned at the rods, and showed us h...

6. Part 6

Green made the first attempt to scale Mount Sir Donald, the splendid peak that almost overshadows Glacier House. He selected what proved to be an impracticable route, and was fo...

5. Part 5

"For a mile or more it was easy going over a gentle slope covered with rocks and snow. The clouds had gradually broken up before the genial warmth of the sun, and the Kicking Ho...

4. Part 4

An incident of the outward journey is so characteristic of one of the innumerable phases of Rocky Mountain scenery that one may venture to borrow Mr. Wilcox's graphic descriptio...

3. Part 3

Banff is probably one of the most cosmopolitan communities in the world. Although its permanent population hardly exceeds one thousand, about 75,000 visitors registered during t...

2. Part 2

A word remains to be said, and it may as well be said here as elsewhere, as to routes--how to get to the Canadian National Parks. From Eastern Canada, and the Atlantic seaboard,...

7. Part 7

"In our attempt to turn a sharp angle I found myself sitting for about ten minutes--but for what seemed more like half an hour--astride a rocky protuberance, which appeared like...

1. Part 1

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10. Part 10

"If one halts by chance anywhere on a mountain pass, all sorts of thrilling things are going on around. Lovely flowers are opening eagerly to the sun and wind of Spring--in mid-...