Notes on the Canadian North West

Abstract

THE excursion to the Rocky Mountains, along the Canadian Pacific Railroad, will probably prove a most attractive feature in connection with the British Association meeting this season. Living on the cars for several successive days and nights is a novel experience for most people, and one, it might be supposed, that would prove monotonous; but the alternation of forest, lake, prairie, and mountain scenery, each with its associated peculiarities, will probably prevent the trip becoming at all tedious. Some members of the Association may prefer taking the route through the United States to Winnipeg, but from thence all will proceed through the rich wheat lands of Manitoba, then over the rolling prairies west of Brandon, with their numerous alkali lakes and relatively unproductive soil beyond Moosejaw; through the cattle-ranching district at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and up the winding Bow Valley to the summit-level in the Kicking Horse Pass. Here at Stephen, on the confines of British Columbia, the railway terminates for the present.