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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1956-08-30, Page 14Pa$e 14 The Times-Advocate, August 30, 1954 Snowmobile Tour At Banff HighlightsWestern Holiday A five-mile snowmobile ride over the Columbia Ice Fields in jasper Park was described as the highlight of a 6,000-mile trip taken by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mills, Woodham, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Levy, of St. Marys this month.The snowmobile ride was en- Magic Markers The slick sign writer for only $1.00 at Times-Advocale Fred's Rad io Service 106 ANDREW ST., EXETER Phone 120-W tw«. It 2) NOW, HEPE'S THE PLACE TO BUY COAL ATM JUST* PASTE‘TH IS NUM­ BER IN Y0UR-HAT1 M • m o r y Test: What’s our telephone number? That’s right, it’s 299. Thank you for that last order of BLUE COAL and be sure to call us when you need some more. !Attend Funeral Of Arnold Rock Mr. and Mrs. Robert Belling attended the funeral on Tuesday at the M. Box and Son funeral home, Parkhill, of Mrs. Belling’s father, Arnold Rock, 83, who I died suddenly at his home McGil- livray Township on Sunday. Surviving besides his wife the former Catherine Hickey are four daughters, (Viola) Mrs. Robert Belling of town; (Olive) Mrs. Ray Hodgins and (Kath­ leen) Mrs. Harry Horner, both of McGillivray Township; (Myrt­ le) Mrs. Ralph Turner of Ailsa Craig; two sons, John and Nel­ son, also of McGillivray; one brother, James, and a sister, Mrs. Nelson Hayter. Interment was mad- in Grand Bend cemetery. Office —Continued from Page 13 Mr. Drew said “We hope to make constructive contributions to work now being done by the various municipal bodies as well as Chambers of Commerce throughout the region in the near future. We are preparing litera­ ture which can be used in indus­ trial development work and will be in contact with a comprehen­ sive list of United States compa­ nies which are considering the establishment of factories or warehouses in Canada." under way. On Wednesday morning, Au­ gust 23, the party left for Fort William, and found the drive to the lakehead pleasant and inter­ esting. They spent the night with friends after enjoying a grand view of the twin cities from the lookout in the evening. The party travelled the Trans­ Canada highway from Fort Wil­ liam, 100 miles of which was gravel. They reached Kapus- kasing Friday night and arrived home Saturday evening. The party found accomodation excellent during most of their trip but advised any future trav­ ellers to make reservation at Banff because accomodation is scarce there. Mr. Mills and Mr. Levy, both camera fans, took 400 coloured slides of their trip, so they’ll be able to enjoy their western ad­ venture for many years to come. To Obtain The, Highest Prices FOR YOUR POULTRY Sell Tot-The joyed during the tourists’ three coins to aid charity organizations, nays’stay at Banff, during which' - - • . — they visited the famous moun­tains and streams in the national park. . ,The famous ice fields, winch are as thick as 1000 feet m some places and which reach a height of 7,200 feet above sea level, are receding 100 feet a year, the Ontario party learned from a university guide. In 100 years geologists predict the fields will disappear. Mr. and Mrs. Mills and their son-in-law and daughter, along with Mrs. Lome Walters, of Mitchell, left on August 3 for their four-month trip west. They entered Michigan by way of Point Edward where they saw the $500,000,000 bridge under con­ struction which will replace the ferry there. , During a sto'p in Saginaw, Mrs. Mills met Mrs. Murray Neil, who was returning from the west, in a department store. Their first two evenings were spent at St. Ignace and Grand Rivers, Michigan, and on the third day, Sunday, they 'lunched ’ in Roosevelt Park, Minnot, a be­ autiful scenic development which; was so crowded they couldn’t get a table. The tourists found Montana, the third largest state in the U.S.,' very picturesque agricultural country with fine native grasses. North -Dakota, however, wasn’t so attractive, and the vacation­ ers sweltered in 90-degree heat. They crossed the border into Alberta at Sweetgrass and were impressed by the oil fields in southern part of the province. At Calgary, they joined Mr. and Mrs. Mills’ son, Dr. Grant Mills, his wife and family, who accom­ panied them on their trip to Banff. Dr. Mills., a graduate of UWO, is medical officer for the Queen’s Own Rifles in Calgary. On Tuesday, the tourists visited St. George’s Island the Calgary Zoo, one of the largest and most popular in Canada. There they were impressed by the skeletons of prehistoric monsters found in the badlands, northeast of Cal­ gary, and the city’s first house, which has been preserved since 1883. On Wednesday the party took a trip to Elbow Falls and follow­ ed the stream from its source in the foothills, through the Sarcee Indian Reserve and along Elbow Drive to Calgary. Mr. Mills, a photographic fan, described the country as “gorgeous” and took many pictures among the hills. On the way home, they visited the Keith Hereford Ranch, which has a unique recreation area be­ side ponds in the river. The ponds are stocked with rainbow trout but the fishing is reserved for youngsters only. Thursday -the men rose at 4 a.m. to go trout fishig. They travelled 60 miles by car and trecked three miles to a moun­ tain stream. By two o’clock in the afternoon they had caught their limit. Near the spot was a beaver dam and the men saw 10 trees, as large as a foot in diameter, cut by beaver^. On a visit to Drum heller, Fri­ day, the party saw exceptional stands of wheat. They toured the badlands, now being devel­ oped into a provincial park; where skeletons of dinosaurs 60 millions years old have been found. The tourists spent an hour hunting fossils and obtained several pieces of petrified wood 7 and other pieces containing \ \skeleton bones. On the way up to the badlands, the couple saw the horseshoe canyon, a gigantic depression in the land, which sports colors ranging from garish vermillion to dishwater grey. Saturday and Sunday, Mr. and Mrs., Mills visited friends and relatives in Calgary, and spent an hour with Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Switzer, formerly of Kirkton, who had just returned from a trip to British Columbia. Monday, the party left for Banff and on the way visited the' home and church of Ralph Con­ nor, author of “Sky Pilot" and other books. During a stop‘for lunch the party was amused to see ladies chasing bears away from their tent. The animals had eaten their meat and licked their pots and pans. After obtaining accomodation at Banff, the party drove up the mountains to the chairlift which took them to the top of Mount Norquay, 6,000 feet above sea level. It was on this drive the tpurists saw their first moose. Next day, they left for Lake Louise, encountering many ani­ mals on the way including sever­ al herds of mountain sheep. After viewing the magnificent lake, which was discovered in 1882 and whose depth is still un­ known, the party drove 115 miles to the Columbia Ice Fields, which cover 130 square miles. , All the members of the party, including the seven-month-old son of Dr.' Grant Mills, enjoyed the snowmobile ride over the acres and acres of ice. On their way home the tourists saw herds of elk grazing by the highway. In the dusk of the evening, the Mills party visited the town dump at Banff to see numerous bears scrambling through the garbage for food. The following day, the party left for Moraine Lake, in the valley of the 10 peaks, arid it im­ pressed them as more beautiful than Lake Louise. Mr. Mills des­ cribed the lake as a “color* jewel.” At Kicking Morse Pass, scene of the Great Divide where moun­ tain wafer flows both to the Pa­ cific and the Atlantic, the party lunched in a picnic shelter with gophers, pestering them at their feet. | Returning to Banff, the parly swam in lower sulphur springs, heated to 80 degrees, then toured the famous resort town. They found many Ontario couples there eager to exchange experiences of their trips. On Wednesday night, August 15, the party returned to Calgary which the party found as the friendliest city they had visited on their trip. They toured the i Sunday morning, Mr. and Mrs. I Mills and Mr. and Mrs. Levy left I for Hartney, Man., to visit rela- I lives and during their trip saw millions of dollars of damage I wrought by hail storms to grain . fields. Hartney, a small village settled among a grove of trees, | boasts a large curling rink, 1 and nine,-hole golf course. : Mr. Mills noted most of the crops in Manitoba were progres- i sing well and harvesting was well Jean: “He may be a great artist but he has a peculiar way of doing things.” Joan: “How’s that?" Jean: “He says he painted his greatest masterpiece on an empty stomach." • Stubborn *|»<»h <»vt • De«p-d<>wn erim« 1 removed • Bettor hwHng pro»c You’ll really be proud to send them off in clothes dry cleaned our amazing better Sanltone way! In fact, it will be hard even for you to tell their last year’s clothes from new! Lot us make this the eas* iest September of all! Call or come in today for different San>tone Dry Cleaning! Brady CLEANERS ft LAUNDETERIA LTD. Phone 106 Riverside Poultry Co., Ltd. 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