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the C. P. R. yearly for the use and safety of tourists at the mountain
hotels, but now there has been established, in this model village of ‘‘Edel-
weiss,” a colony of Swiss Guides with their wives and families who will
hereafter make Canada their home. Golden possesses a bank, churches,
hotels, a newspaper and the usual means of social intercourse, including a
curling and hockey club.

The Kootenay Central Railway joining the main line at Golden and
the Crow’s Nest Branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, at
Jukeson, has been constructed for forty miles south from Golden, and on
this line the C. P. R. have established the new Townsites of Mallett,
Parsons, Alton and Spillimacheen. Immediately surrounding each of
these Townsites is a considerable area of land eminently suitable for fruit
growing, and it is the intention of the Railway Company to clear and stump
this land and have same open for sale in ten acre blocks as ready-made
fruit farms. This land will be on sale in the fall of 1912, at reasonable
prices and easy terms of payment, extending over a period of from eight to
ten years. Full particulars regarding same can be had from the British
Columbia Land Department, C. P. R., Calgary, Alta. :

Wilmer and Athlemar are two small towns with hotels and stores
on ne Windermere Lake of the Columbia River and Canterbury is at its
outlet.

Windermere Lake is a fine sheet of water ten miles long by two miles
broad, the width varying where the coast line is broken by bays and pro-
jecting points. On the east bank is the town of Windermere occupying
a charming site, commanding splendid views of mountain and lake as far
as the eye can reach. Near there will also be seen the remains of a log
hut built by David Thompson, astronomer and surveyor, the first white
man to enter the Valley some hundred years ago. :

WINDERMERE DISTRICT.

This district is being rapidly opened up, and with the advent of the
Kootenay Central Railway, will become one of the foremost districts
in British Columbia for agriculture and fruit growing. It possesses the
unique distinction of having large areas of bench land instead of deep

British Columbia is particularly suitable for poultry raising in commercial quantities,