The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . THE REV. G. S. PROVES, G. BOUSTEAD {Mliiui), ANDAUTHOR AT EDSON. IHK TWO TRANSCONTINENTALS, AND (Running uithin eighty yards of each other near Marlboro) Along the New Transcontinental almost side by side from Edmonton up to andthrough the Rockies. Their route is determinedby the Yellowhead Pass,^ through which bothhave to go. The at the present momentis on the other side of the mountains some milesinto British Columbia. The is still onthe Yellowhead Pass. The boundary betweenBritis

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The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . THE REV. G. S. PROVES, G. BOUSTEAD {Mliiui), ANDAUTHOR AT EDSON. IHK TWO TRANSCONTINENTALS, AND (Running uithin eighty yards of each other near Marlboro) Along the New Transcontinental almost side by side from Edmonton up to andthrough the Rockies. Their route is determinedby the Yellowhead Pass,^ through which bothhave to go. The at the present momentis on the other side of the mountains some milesinto British Columbia. The is still onthe Yellowhead Pass. The boundary betweenBritish Columbia and Alberta runs down thesummit of the mountains, so that on reaching thetop of the Yellowhead Pass, you go from oneprovince into the other. At a particular point on the Western slopeof the mountains, about fifty miles into BritishColumbia, the two railways part company. goes a little north, and then west to PrinceRupert on the Pacific Coast; the runssouth-west, over the Albreda Pass, and so toVancouver. This latter company are also building a branchinto the Peace River country, which leaves themain line at Onoway an

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