. Eastern tours through the Canadian Pacific Rockies . dthrough the mountains. FIELD AND THE YOHO VALLEY A STOP-OVER for the night at the MountStephen House at Field, another of theCanadian Pacifics mountain hotels, givesone the opportunity of seeing one of the mostpicturesque districts in the Canadian AND PONY TRIPS EMERALD LAKE, seven miles distant, is reachedby a good carriage road down the bank of theKicking Horse River and thence around the baseof Mount Burgess. On the wooded shore of thisbeautiful lake the Company has built a picturesqueSwiss chalet. It is an extremely bea
. Eastern tours through the Canadian Pacific Rockies . dthrough the mountains. FIELD AND THE YOHO VALLEY A STOP-OVER for the night at the MountStephen House at Field, another of theCanadian Pacifics mountain hotels, givesone the opportunity of seeing one of the mostpicturesque districts in the Canadian AND PONY TRIPS EMERALD LAKE, seven miles distant, is reachedby a good carriage road down the bank of theKicking Horse River and thence around the baseof Mount Burgess. On the wooded shore of thisbeautiful lake the Company has built a picturesqueSwiss chalet. It is an extremely beautiful fourteen-mile drive tothe celebrated Takakkaw Falls, of the Yoho Valley, asilver thread of glacial origin dropping 1,200 feet intoa still and mighty-treed valley. A trail continues upthe valley, past Laughing Falls, and the great WaptaGlacier to the curious Twin Falls, two immense jets ofspray that unite in mid-air. The trail leads to a pointabove the falls from which a wonderful view may beobtained. Other pleasant excursions from Field may be. Eastern Tours made to points of interest within a short distance of Field—■such as the Fossil Beds, Aerial Silver Mines, NaturalBridge and Monarch Mine Cabins. Between Field and Hector, near the summitof the Rockies, one of the greatest engineeringfeats of the century has been reduce the steep grade of the western slopeof the Rockies, the line has been lengthened,and two immense spiral tunnels have beendriven through the solid rock, each tunnel withapproaches making a complete loop of track. LAKE LOUISE, PEARL OF THE ROCKIES IT IS three miles by narrow-gauge motor linefrom the Canadian Pacific Railway stationto Lake Chicago Evening Post says:Such glory of light and color, such a spark-ling mirror water, such magnificence of evergreenmountains and rocky steeps, and snow and iceand clouds, may exist in other variations, butnowhere in the world can they be Louise is the gem for which the
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