. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . along a timbered belt for3606 some fifteen miles, past a fertile2999 agricultural district near Jura, the1729 ascent is made to Osprey Lake,where the fisherman will find hisThen we follow up Trout Creek throughFrom here we begin to descend towardsthe Okanagan Valley, skirting first the edge of the West Sum-merland Valley. A view of the Okanagan) Valley, the Cali-fornia of Canada, suddenly bursts into sight, the placid Okana-gan Lake with Lake Skaha to the south, and b
. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . along a timbered belt for3606 some fifteen miles, past a fertile2999 agricultural district near Jura, the1729 ascent is made to Osprey Lake,where the fisherman will find hisThen we follow up Trout Creek throughFrom here we begin to descend towardsthe Okanagan Valley, skirting first the edge of the West Sum-merland Valley. A view of the Okanagan) Valley, the Cali-fornia of Canada, suddenly bursts into sight, the placid Okana-gan Lake with Lake Skaha to the south, and between themPenticton. Bordering the lake beauiful homes surrounded byorchards reach to the mountain background. Penticton 1132 Penticton (population 4,000), with its mildeven climate, never excessively hot or cold,beckons one to forget care and become a child again among itsfruits and flowers. Justacross the street from thestation is the Incola Hotel,operated by the Kettle v ValleyRailway,a diningroom hasin store apleasan tsurprise—eggs, but-ter, cream, Vegetables Incola Hotel, Penticton irii. Kettle Valley Route 51 and fruit fresh daily from the railways experimental farm. Fac-ing the hotel and just across the Lake Shore Drive is the bathingbeach, a most delightful fresh water beach, where bathing maybe enjoyed from early spring until late autumn. The beach ofpure sand slopes gradually out for several hundred feet. TheAquatic Club building is adjacent, and its privileges are avail-able to visitors. Excellent motor roads radiate in all directions,and drives may be taken along the Lake Shore Drive to Summer-land and Peachland, among the orchards, where in properseason luscious peaches, pears, apricots, apples and grapesmay be gathered. To the south, around Lake Skaha, a mag-nificent view of the surrounding country is obtained, on pastSwan Lake to the international boundary, or to the westwardover a mountain pass to the Similkameen Valley, theroads o
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