Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . side and affords excellent bathing, fishing and boating. It may bereached by an excellent motor highway as well as by rail. It iswell built up \vith summer cottages of attractive Beach is another lake resort of a similar kind to is some distance west of Edmonton on Lac Ste. Anne. CookingLake is twenty-five miles east of Edmonton. It is a large bodyof water with a number of picturesque islands. It is a favou
Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . side and affords excellent bathing, fishing and boating. It may bereached by an excellent motor highway as well as by rail. It iswell built up \vith summer cottages of attractive Beach is another lake resort of a similar kind to is some distance west of Edmonton on Lac Ste. Anne. CookingLake is twenty-five miles east of Edmonton. It is a large bodyof water with a number of picturesque islands. It is a favouriteweek-end resort for the people of Edmonton and has a numberof attractive cottages. Lac La Biche is a very attractive lake in the north countryon a branch of the Great Waterways Railway. It is one of themost beautiful sheets of water in the province. It has a good beach,numerous islands, and excellent fishing. It will develop in thefuture into a fine resort. Pigeon Lake is west of Wetaskiwin. Many of the other lakes of the province only await the develop-ment of the country about them to answer the same recreativevalue as the ones alreadv Boat[Scene at Lake Wabamun 63 TRANSPORTATION ANDCOMMUNICATION Railways.—The Province of Alberta is well served withrailways, roads and means of communication. The main lineof the Canadian Pacific Railway crossed the province in 1885,going by way of Calgarv and the Kicking Horse Pass. Since thattime the Crows Nest Pass section has been built. A north andsouth line connects Macleod and Edmonton through line from Moose Jaw joins this north and south line at line connects Winnipeg with Edmonton by way of Saska-toon. Canadian Pacific connection is likewise established withGreat Falls, Montana, and a line connecting Lethbridge withWeybum is about completed. The Canadian National Railways, formerly the CanadianNorthern and Grand Trunk Pacific, cross the province throughEdmonton. A section of the Canadian Nat
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