. Sunset Canada, British Columbia and beyond; an account of its settlement, its progress from the early days to the present, including a review of the Hudson's Bay Company, its amazing variety of climate, its charm of landscape, its unique cities and attractive towns and their industries, a survey of the different peoples to be found there, including the Japanese and Doukhobors, an analysis of what it offers in opportunity to the home seeker, the agriculturist, the business man, the sportsman and the traveller. ll satisfyall visitors, those who desire a quiet holiday in a fash-ionable or a mod
. Sunset Canada, British Columbia and beyond; an account of its settlement, its progress from the early days to the present, including a review of the Hudson's Bay Company, its amazing variety of climate, its charm of landscape, its unique cities and attractive towns and their industries, a survey of the different peoples to be found there, including the Japanese and Doukhobors, an analysis of what it offers in opportunity to the home seeker, the agriculturist, the business man, the sportsman and the traveller. ll satisfyall visitors, those who desire a quiet holiday in a fash-ionable or a moderate price hotel, those who prefer tosaunter in beautiful woodland, the walkers, riders, driv-ers; and those who desire for the strenuous leads themto undertake long trips that require from one week tothirty days. Banff provides it all, in reality, the littlecity that has grown up around the steaming springs is allembracing, the climax of the mountain tour from theWest, a summing up and review of all that has been seenor experienced elsewhere. When approached from theEast it offers its dazzling variety of marvels almost assoon as one has entered the gateway from the plains, andthe tourists first hours axe spent in bewilderment andamazement that such scenic prodigality exists — not insome faroff corner of the Urals, Caucasus, Andes orHimalayas, but so close to home, just beyond the greatwheat fields around Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. Thf Three Sisters, near of Canadian Pacific Capital of the Rockies 305 As the departing train leaves Banff it circles into thegreat eight-hundred-acre corral of the buffalo and soonreaches the coal-mining towns of Bankhead and good view is obtained of Three Sisters Mountain inprofile and of Wind and Pigeon Mountains looming in thefar distance. The peaks still raise their heads into theclouds as if in an heroic effort to defy the inevitable mo-notony of the plains. The Bow River, which is to providethe water for
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