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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY

Tourists visiting the Great Selkirk Glacier at Glacier, B.C,

between here and Field. These tunnels are really marvels of engineering
skill, the trains making complete circles underneath the mountains before
emerging into daylight.

At Field is located the Mount Stephen House, one of the chain of
splendid hotels with which the Canadian Pacific Railway has girdled the
mountains. Here is one of the most beautiful districts of the whole
province. The Mount Stephen House is immediately at the base of the
mountains from which it takes its name. This splendid monolith rears its
head 8,000 feet straight up above the hotel. A drive of a few miles along
the Kicking Horse Gorge, through an avenue of fragrant pines, brings
one to Emerald Lake and its chalet. Built ona peninsula the chalet is
almost entirely surrounded by the emerald waters. The outlook is over
the lake with its beautiful setting of green timber and the towerin
Mount Wapta, the emerald peaks with their glistening glaciers, and loftier
and more imposing still, superb Mount Burgess. From Field is reached

‘the Yoho Valley, with its Takakkaw Falls 1,200 feet high, its Yoho

glacier and ice caves and its Twin Falls of even greater interest than
the Takakkaw, owing to’a perpendicular drop of two vast columns of
water and the dense clouds of steamlike spray caused by the concussion
of the waters with the rock floor below.

There are eighty-eight miles between Field and Glacier, and every
mile presents new pictures, ofttimes startling, never ordinary. During
the run to Glacier, Golden is passed, near where is seen the model Swiss

village of “ Edelweiss,” built by the Canadian Pacific Railway for its Swiss

guides. These guides are situated at all of the principal mountain resorts
to aid tourists in mountain climbing, which sport is very popular.

At Glacier, one of the most visited attractions is the Great Glacier
itself. The big moving icefield is easily reached from the hotel, and is the