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BRITISH COLUMBIA,

A TOURIST’S PARADISE.

S a tourist centre British Columbia has no peer among the other
A provinces of the Dominion. Go where you will throughout the
province you cannot but be struck by the beauty of the country.
If you would climb mountains, if you would feast your eyes on rugged
snow-capped peaks thrusting boldly skyward from forest or green valley,
if you would explore the secret recesses of Nature’s mighty handiwork,
if hunting, fishing or boating fill your sportsman’s soul, do not hesitate
to travel into the world of panoramic splendor that British Columbia
holds in store. ;

Naturally, British Columbia is most famous for its mountain scenery.
To see the mountains at their best one should really leave the beaten
path and follow the trails into their fastnesses. Even by keeping to the
lines of usual travel, however, one can see scenes such as cannot be
duplicated anywhere else on earth.

In travelling westward through the Canadian Rockies via the
Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia territory is first entered at
Hector. Not only is this the highest station in the Canadian Rockies,
but it is also famous as being the scene of one of the greatest engineering
feats ever undertaken in Canada—the spiral tunnels, which are encountered

Field, B.C., showing the huge Mount Stephen and the Kicking Horse River,