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Title: Sandford Fleming, empire builder
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 Railroads
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t, and each plication and angleof the different strata up its giant sides was boldly and clearlyrevealed. We were entering the magnificent jasper portalsof the Rocky Mountains by a quiet path winding betweengroves of trees and rich lawns like an English gentlemanspark/ Full of enthusiasm, the travellers pushed their way up thevalley, stopping to drink to the Queen from the clear ice-cold waters of Riviere de Violin, now known as Fiddle Creek,and famous in the west by reason of the extreme sudden-ness with which it is transformed from a modest, unassumingstream to a tempestuous torrent. With towering peaksabout them on every side, they could now sympathize withthe enthusiast who returned home after years of absence, andwhen asked what he had as an equivalent for so much losttime, answered: I have seen the Rocky Mountains / They were now beneath the towering front of Rochea Myette, and recalled the fact that Dr. Hector, who ex-plored the mountains thirteen or fourteen years earlier, had
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o .§ pi ^ ^: OCEAN TO OCEAN IN 1872 123 climbed 3,500 feet above the valley until stopped by a per-pendicular wall that still towered two thousand feet abovehim. It was said that the summit had once been reached bya daring hunter, who gave his name to the peak. Roche a Myette, rising some 9,000 feet above sea-level,hardly ranks among the higher peaks of the Rockies, but itspeculiar form and position lend it distinction. As onetravels west by the Grand Trunk Pacific its magnificentforehead dominates the landscape; and those who journeyedthis way before the advent of the railway had the peak inview for days, until they began to think that it was be-witched and that they would never win to its base. The water in the Athabaska being too high for pack-horses, it was decided to build a raft. On this the baggagewas safely taken across, and a short ride brought Flemingand his companions to Jasper House, fifteen days afterleaving Edmonton. This old post, supposed to have beennamed after a fur

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