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Title: Canada's national playground, a guide and souvenir of the mountain resorts
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Godenrath, Percy F. (Percy Francis), 1875-1944
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Publisher: Calgary, Herald Co.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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head Passes, the former being near the culminat-ing point of the Rockies, where the mountains are high-est and the glaciers and snow-fields are largest. Anothershorter but not less interesting trip may be taken fromthe Lake Louise Chalet, via the Abbot Pass, or Deathtrap to Lake OHara and thence to Field. This ex-cursion is one requiring the services of a Swiss guideuntil Lake OHara is reached. Bow Lakes—A most picturesque region that can bereached by a bridle-path from Laggan, eight miles. Livery Tariff at Laggan.(Lake Louise). Between Station and Chalet, each person each way 50c. Pony from Chalet from Moraine Lake and return $4. 00 Saddlebaek and return 1 50 Lake Agnes and return 150 Glacier and return 1 50 FIELD. Fifty-one miles west of Banff, and ten miles beyondthe (xre.it Divide—where a little stream bifurcates, onetravelling westward to the Pacific and the other east-ward to Hudson Bay—is Field, where is located the THE KING EDmRD BANFF &MOST-POPUIAR-TOURIST-HOTEL ■
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C.P.R.s Mount Stephen House at the base of MountStephen, which rises 10,450 feet above the sea level.This station is the point from which is reached a greatglacier field, and only, as it were, a stones throw fromall the mysteries and wonders of an upper ice world.Trails radiate from this point in several directions, andSwiss guides are stationed here for those who seek tofind excitement and adventure in climbing the neigh-bouring peaks. Points of Interest Around Field. The ascent of Mount Stephen is a fine climb culniin- Mount ^ting in a superb panorama of peaks, Stephen glaciers and snow-fields which is obtained at the summit. A little over two miles from Field, on the lower portion of the route to the summit of Mount Stephen is a good trail leading over glacial moraines, and terminating at an interesting geological formation known as the Fossil Bed. This is a rock slide, 300 or 400 feet in vertical height, where every piece of shale or flat slab of rock contains fossil remains of tr

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