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\THE 'Goriirucli SIGNAL -STAR
The Counky MouscRounds he Big Bend
Dear Friend'- . and Pare. It falls from ,the lake
I think I said good-bye last yeeek in abeautiftil little cascade tee
in the rain at 'Calgary', We Soon Mirror Lake, 220 feet lower. The
got on our way towards our ob., Indians used to say the mountain,
elealts steed the latter for -a-mirror.
JeVEive ---,Moe...se W. ,14.11A4'!._-4eel"-in--We-had -a-tielielottS ItinYc-Eirtlie
Mountain -Pe -has. Tne ruin stoPPete; Tea Howe. AI). the . eupplies are
except • for occasional seallit !teaken, up by pack horse. One of
'showers, .and. I think the scenery us looked otit the windoel aa the
was even .more lateresting becteilse little lake, and 'the other onehad
a the clouds' and hint ot rain. a wide view over the Bow aral-31ey
Certaiale:tne mountains 4 and foot- •and the winding river, nearly L00
hills showed a great •varlety of feet below, and mountains en the
shades Of blue. For a ' long time other side. , There were wild honey -
we were driviug i.111, a'. ridge; with suckle, apenioneS,' forget-me-nots
a wide valley .below us. On the and a yell -6%v flower growing wild
road to •13anff, I spotted a cairn -on on the mountain slopes, and I. saw
the side of 'the road, so,- as usual:, violets in bloom aud the leaves a
I' had tositavestigate. . This one mountain lilies growing.. And jeiSt
was in honor of Rev. Geo. .1ge- A few feet awayI picked up. a
Dougall and Rev. Mtn McDougall,., handful of snow n1,0(410141 pot
it
*his sent wile weee pioneer Metho- 'yet inelted—that as July 10.
dist taiesionaries in the Northwest: Mountain Priv g a Nightniare
I, read a hook hy John before jetty- Our text. stoP'•Was at field, but
iiiToronto in which he. told about before we got there we really began
some of his travels over the prairie' to experience .mountain driving—
landet",before the coming Of the,
Mot/I:tied POlice. One -a the things
which' he• was fighting. was, the
demoralizing influence on the
Indian.s of the Whiskey traders in
the early 'years of the -70's. He
says the 'intelligent Indians and
their ,chiefs w.elcomed the coming
of the law.. I was much dtagusted
to. see that some careless tourist
had left an einpty beer carton righf
at the foot. of the. Cairn. 'I'm afraid.
Rev. John would not like that.
Did you h•appen to hear the drain°,
tization of some of, his life kon the
radio the last Sunday •in June?
There Was an old thurch• in 'the.
field a. short distance from . the
;•Cairn and it is • quite poseible that
"Johh," as the Indians called hint,
may have preached in it, and the
little Mission station whieh he 'built!
may have been nearby tea.. 'At one.
-time his wife was the onlaaevybite
-woman for hundreds -of -MUM -Iti;
any direction. Oh,' yes, • he 'Was
one of the persona . who say that
thp e!natural, prairie grass was. the
Very ',best *food an animal coind
eat, even . in "the middle -of the
winter when it, Was covered with
snow and. the horse or buffalo. had
to paw the snow., away .tO get .at*
the grass, There. . is ' a Stoney
Indian reserve along that part of
.the Bow River, too, and :s resi-
dential seheol under, the 'control
of the United Church. , ' ' .
As we got farther into the motuF
.teine, the scenery became more and
'mete beautiful:and •impressi*Ve-With
,every mile. There were patches
and veil es Of -Clouds on the moun-
tains ,and the Sunshine and. shadow
were , enchanting. Evergreens cev-
ered the sides a tbe Mount:line and
there were •rivers and. little lakes
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3,0th, 1051
' EDITORIAL I9TES
Summer has come at last.
Oil doesn't seem to have calmed
the troubled waterS ,in Iran.
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The high cost of living doesn't
appear to daunt the .young
`Witbout benefit, of statistics, we
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WOuld _say the marriage rote is as
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high es 'ever. •
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The Ontario. Legislature is to
have a special session beginning
• September .24th. :Chief business
will be legislation 'with respect .to
.• oldageleensio.ne.
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What this country 'needs is a
'•• ere -war 'five -vent „chocolate bar --
for .five cents. -e -London reee Pres.
Quit Your,* grousing. Give' . the.
kid a' dime and let' him have his
. .• treat. "
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Princess. Margaret is . twenty-one.
We hope. she will live 'to a happy
old -age and that when she comes
te TAW a 'Ate IVilt-be. • allowed te-
iisit Huron county.. arid 'see ,the
most .beautifuT of the Great Lakes.
Teo Melly •fields and roadsides
An
this diStrict are .rotten With
• wild carrot. The. obnoxious weed• .
presents a disagreeable sight to the
,passing raotorist, but there' may
be some' palliative in calling it
"Queen Anne's lace."
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,Gen. Ridgeway, 13.N. leader in
Korea, refuses to be bluffed by the
Reds. Ile uses stectight language
In talkinp.; to them, giving. them -no
opportunity. to believe that their
wiles will aucceed in weakening -the
P.N. position.. If peaee negetiatiops
„SS.
fail, it will be. because the Reds
deliberately ehooee. a continuance
of hostilities,:
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'. From Hollysvood comes a • report
that, a' • certain Wavle •queett .and
her preSent husbaud ,have arrlied
at a' "mieunderstanding•" iu their
three-year-old ,• marriage Details of
nn appeoaehing divorce siret,so often
enibarrassieg -to She iemple OW so,
offensive to the, reading Publfei that
it iS gratifying to learh that such
a pleasant- wey has been invented
ef anneuncing the de -marriage.
The Provincial .DepartmenS, of
Lands and lerests , reports that
150 deer have been killed this year
on the highways in the Huron
district (Which covers rotighly the
area frbm Hamilton to Goderich
and from Collingwood. to ,the Brute.
Peninsula). With this great mortal-
ity in the deer. populatiou it should
not be necessary to have a. general
open, season for deer as proposed
in order to nreddee theie numbers.
The, Ontario Regietrar-General
reports that between two and three
thousand aPplicatiops for , birfle
eereificates are being received daily..
With the, importance now attached
to -these . certificatee„ and the diffi-
celty in many . cases of proving age
in applications for pension, it Might
he well to have' eery child wear
a Jag from birth showing the 'date
of his arrival in this documented
world. The ISaltford-Sage suggsts
tattooing. the ,date on the child's
back,but this might in time wear
off. The probleta sex. ieuS
consideratioe, We, hitset not let
'children growUp itt. fear of a
Pens ienless old ' a ge. ,
A U. :S. Voiter on Pre'sideutial Issue
•Canadian- readers,. , may gitin ate mark, aw'edon, •and Norway' I
went to ahose countries beeause
insight into • the.' pal it ieal Situation
in 'the tveighbOring rept-hie from a
den rant let ter Whiell 0ppea red ire, a
recent .i-eses • of The Christian
had always liked the type of think-
ing which thosesnationa exprtsesed.
The 'soundness of 'their ideals
seemed to bring its -reward • in
..mase.,..greatee .prosperity. .When I visited
Science 'Mouitor <,f Roton.
• a those eountries •in 1949, was ap-
pne of -the „leading newsn
--- "se- a- xisS o' palled tit, the'ehange that had emne
the:United States.-- The letter. was over them .since the "welfare state"
written by Heleue Conaets Sen- hnd gained ,wider aceeplanee. While
Iiea ' ff I thoroughly approve of social re-
eseefothee:.
forms. I couldn't help.. but ,se,,e. that
To•The Christian Science- Monitor e „
. • the ohl dole 'system" lind 'weakened
Th4. artiele by • Joseph Mtrsch in the eharaeter.andintegrity of many
V01.11' A.OgItst 10 issue. prompts the people:sand the abuses of a soeialist
• to write why I ala for. Etsenhower
forSPreeident. 'Normally I Used to
• ote with,the,..,Republican parts. I
voted for Hoover. But since about.
1939 it bus seemed tome that the
• Democratic party expressed Mere
• ,clearly my views an :foreign policy.
sThe• Republicans expressed mteaV
"isolationist" ," ideas that seemed
very 'Short-aighted • to me, while
• ,Roesevelt ;Was _far-41,ghted. and saw,
ahead of most Americans, where
Hitlerisre w,aa leading the 'World,.
and what the consequences west be.
• So when it came 'to making a choice
• , between 'vdting fpr Rdosevelt 1.2vith
hie 'foreign policy, of whieh . I ap-
proved, or for Republican, I' felt
had to vote for .1tooSevelt in spite
not' wanting. to seste for a third
term for anyone, . •
When the last eleetibn came, I
disappreved of the domestic> ,eoliey
of , the Dernocratic party, but be-
lieved' that its foreign. policy was
nearer' right • than the isolationism
that often cropped out in the Re-
publican party. it Seemed to ,m,e
• that ,the world Situation was' suefi--
•'that the greatest danger was Rus-
sia., and if had .to choose between
the good "foreign, policy of the
es -Democrats and the good domestic
policfc of the Republicans it Was
more •important tb choose the good
foreign policy. • So I voted for
it Truman.
•
• efs -,- • Two -years ago went to Europe
and spent a month in England and
• another. month in .Hollend, Den -
government were leading "welfare
,states" to bankruptcy. •
It struck 'me with force • that
wherever the .government paid for
social services people ..wese. pot .as
eeonomical hi holding downllies•ex-
'tenses.as • they wOuld he if they
realized that the money was comipg
oet of their otos pockets. '
- !When I returned4to the United
States, I wax/dismayed to find the
words 'Welfare State" being applied
to our., country more and more, and
to realise that. the domestic policy
of the: Demoerafic•party Was lead-
ing 'the. United :States ,down the
$ame socialist road which has
weaken,ed, and t. ruined so many
European countries whieh were
.formerly strong and ‚sound. , I
.have been more and more in a
quapdary asto. how I should • vote
in ,1932. It seemed to me that
Taft'S foreign policy would spell
disaster to this country, and Tru-,
Than'a domestic policy would else
be disastrous. I. began to wish
are -Aber. prilitical Party reight be
forined „ eontbieing Democratic
foreign •• policy with Republican
domestic policy.
. Thee , 1 began to notice article:A
about, Eisenhower for President.- I
felt mire that his foreign, policy;
would" bit'sound, and thought that
his domestics policy might be sound,
too, So, if I have to 'make a choice
between these three men finePresi-
dents in -1953, my vote wIH 'gci, to
Eisenhower.
at ,every turn. , And I am • not
issilig a metaphorical, term when I
say • turn," heca u sesstlie_ _read Aya,
becoming very winding (as .
thought theu in my ignorance) :and
every "turn.. brought anethersheauti-
•ful scene; I began to realize that
mounteins are, not just hugemaaee$
of solid rock; They have many
gravelly or even loamy slopes: We
passed 'several' Welt -known inPute
tains,. The -Three Sisters nal Mount
Randle,- for, instance. •1 thiuk it
IS Mount Rundle which, looks as
it a party ofgiants had heaved
it pqrt way av.er—the strata are
inifte slanted, instead of .lying fiat
05 oLIP W0111(1 expect...
• Mountain Views
We„ were • fortumite t�, find
cabin wills the Aviiidpw looking
righteat Caseade Mountain. So I
ate mundane ,•bread- and porridge
while feasting, my senses on. the
sight of that beeetiftil peak With
ltS ,,snow Caps and glaciers. Look-
ing out in another direction,we
found there was a. double rainbow
bangifig •over Tunnel Mountain.
That was a thrill.. We just seoeld
not Stay inside, after that, so, went
Oat for a walk and- drive to See
the sights. Of icourse, Banff
Springs Hotel -was one of the sights,
andthe famous bath honse. at One
of tbe hot .springs. was another.
The clpsest 'we got to a hot spring,
however,,. was Id -dabblecnr fingers
.in the overflow from, the bathe.
It was Monday eVening and every-
thing was elosed'l •The park garden
at the Administration and Emerg-
ency ,Butlding wag, another lovely.
spot. It is rather formal, but has
an air of delightful informality.
There are pools and grottoes and
rustle arbors built of knotty logs.
The flowers, were not at their best,.
but gave promise of greet beauty:in
as -few weeks. The rockeries there,
are particUlarly'. intere.sting, be;
,01.111Se of the variety of rocks toed.
The -next morning we were on our
way quite early *to .1eatte 'Louise.
First thing, almost before We were
eat of sight of Banff, we saw two
young moose' In the forest. A. few
miles farther on a -group of people
had 'stopped on the road to' feed
o young beat'. I bad to. be in on'
that, so I grabbed a ben and walked
up to the bear. • in a, few minutes
the bun had • disappeared bit by
bit, and the bear kept on expect-
ir handout, Until I showed 'him
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that 114: 11100.118_. were' eraptyi,Itt
astintiteir-plit#e; tire road 'swag .1.hilt
on both sides of a giant tree. Ina-
rigiAs„ building e highway 'around
O tree at heene!' ,
..• At' Lake Louise • •
•I‘.. think Lake Louise is one if
the "lakes, in tine clouds." It could
welt bessanyways slippiest* it has
• one of 'Me nir perreef 'natural
;settings in 'the whole world—great
tafISISIVe dark mountains on two
..51(leS, and a glittering white
glacier; reac,hing almost to the
water's edge at the far end. The
water in Lake Louise wkk
e,t,n11 r greenish shade and loo'ked
solid 'rather than. liquid!The
Cite teen. whieli is placed So', ,as to
fare that ;amines sight, is a very
•flne building. On of the things
Viernember about it 'le the hillside
eovered with ()mugs., yellow, and
cream poppies which were at their
best. We had only a few ,hours tee
spend at Leke Louise, so the girl,.
at . the, information booth in the
11044 she-gested that We elimb7to
Mirror litake, and 'Lake tiat
hmeh *there, 'end, then come tloWfl.
, did. It .was not 'a ditlieult
climb; there Was n good "Mlle but
if wee definitely up all the time.
Jr is two:* and Et -half .talles from
thehofel And 1 235 feet higher--:•
ilt1/15• feet abo'Ve sea level alto.
other, It inok In hours to chin))
Up. " The water in Lake Agn4 Is
• all., from the glaciers which art
all around and Is sparklingcletti
Message for Labbr Day, 1951
• The following meettlage for Labor
,rtay issued by the lion, Milton P.
,Gregg, 'Minister ,of' Labor for Can-
•'ada. bakbeep received by M.
.2:rarest--4T.—Men,31rd7, 'opal., union
executite:...„
Sinee last Labor Dey, the world
hag experienced .a period of grive
lifi•Orfainty. We, or thettlree ea-
tiense have been forced to engnge'
hi a major defence effort atn thne
• when.We Would prefer to ilireet our
hopes, our moral and material
• energies, toward the establishment
of Et• free and peaceful world. • It is
our fervent prayer that our efforta
rjlt 1t ar�lti. another World
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in,,carrying ont our defence pro.
'gram it is imp`Ortanti that we snain-
talti our standard of living at the
high0St:pOsSible level. 'Communism
• breeds rind grociis undv ecandItions
depression, and economic insecur-
ity. It is, therefore, essential that
we 'who are nurtured itt freedom
412e Strong not only -in themilitary
• sense, but also morally and' intct-
lectually, iff order 'to Play our Pitrt
in taking tike world out •of ikt,11
Morass of fear and insecurity,
*• There arestierifices, required of
alt (45n04110115 to fulfill oturobliga-
flow;• These. Sherifices piti$p be
based on a 'foundation of egtmlity.
Labor hi' -the past has demonstrated
ith ' willingneke .to undertake its
fair: share of responeibility, andit
Is doing no less now.
One of our great' problems at the
mement ,is ,Pfeein
teite to rep4a t 11, but 'tile mount in g
evidence Is ineecapattles that the
AutTftt method of comfmtting ififla-
Hon Ls by. increased Production. At
the ,,,present. thaw, high production
levels are °essential, and the male-
tenance of these levels wilLrequire
a high degree f labor-management
cooperation. It is essential that
the exietingi e,.Xcellent rellitiana be-
tween employee and employer
groapS be Maintained.The good
effeets of :this cooperation have
been detnonstrated,'"time and 'time
again, and the •re.sulting, benefits are
shared -by all. ,
Canadian :labor movement
tias been quirk, to recognize the
tactics . of . and conquer,
fuloPted by those who would destroy.
,free lIte ns we know It.
In the light of these 'Mete, and
the .exeellent record of Van -
Adrian labor moli(qtlent, the Ifeople
,of Canada eatt indeed be pmnd that
organized' labor has consistently e.4.4c-
:111bited a. broad and rational op -
preach to the problems not only 'of
,ItS owncountry, bat of the world
at 'large. '
ever, a- god sleeti14-n. wonderful
restorer,. aud after fa night. in a
contfortabie cabitt and a chat with.
the kind IllestesS there, we deeided
that' ve were good for another ilny
on the mountain. roads, especially
as. Ave Here Asatteed Wet •the, road
to Kamloops was, eigistylper cent.
paved.
Over the Mountains -
It wasn't, but it was much more
comfortable, and we were able to
relax and eitjo_y the chauging
cetintry. •.,The ve,eather was • much
b.otter, and most of the time there
was a beautiful blue haze hangilig
over . the mountains:. 'The river
e -alleys Wideped eat, tied there were
placid lakes, with, that 'blue, • blue
water again. Even' ill/ that eouutry,
the htlls, Made those at Port Alberts
(zotierieh. and Beniniller Jook like
Mere ant .hills, and the roads at
home like. super highways by com-
parison. At Salmon,,Artu, on Lake
Shuswap„ we saw orchards and
berries and, gardens, anal -Our first
long stretch of straight road. There
wes- a beautiful drive for ranee be-
thoeght 1. I noticed inanY Wile/ and above, ..a lake, I satV
dogwood in hlooni for the first time,
.atreelts ' down - the .sides .of the
mountains. Which' I thefight • might Ttoheilavevgeet4tittlouttshintitie vaiihnllext bseegbiain,
have been caused by tench or. snow
tropical look at tiinee. There. were
slides.. They were., There were
flowers and ,shrubs by the dozen
rushing mountain streams coming
that. I did not recognize. As %ye.
down and disappearing under .the
0" followed. the valley of the %%pints.
road. Before* the next two
son River, there Were signs of irs
were over, began to wonderewhat
rigatton le .the flat.nlac.es. Usually
„mischief t ey Might be. et down
the *water was carried in. opeit ague -
there. .• 11. I W01.1i(t be aware of
dUcts . and then over the fields in
the forest stillneas around us :and;
little ditches. illaY -was coiled on
again, forest smells. We crossed
wooden frames as la Some European
the Great' Divide, just ae yeti see
Kick_ pictures. The ethers side of .the
file pictures,. and entered the
river seemed tohavedeeply eroded
.ing Horse Canyon. . had heard
clay banks with...deep coalees.
people sjn Naeton 'speaking of •moun-
There were •a few trees growing
Win- roads and canyon- roads and.
on the higher slopes of the mom -
now I began to understand what
tains .bat Just gray, sagebrush down
they • meant: The river seemed to
low. The scene wae like'the a§t- for
fall in a constant series of casnades,
a .Western movie, such an interest-
th rough a deep, narrow gorges,
inesand unusual formation of erns
Then it would spread out in a Little e -
and, pinnacles 'in the benks. I sit*
lake and then go. tumbling innaise
•hispvietesegrowing for thesfirst
Yfeatiti. It was beantiftil.'
The farinerg use a, carious system
raying. There was wet rock glit-
of wires and poles, for. the vines to
tering on the sides, of •the motintains
e climb on. There were little 'green
a-nd tiny falls like threads of silver.
patches hoed .crops, grain
A bit past Field, my notes stop.
clever, • Otos with small fruit trees
and
I drove; and it. was just one hor-•
in the midst,, and just on the other
rible nightmare -of sips and downs side Of the fence 'Where there was
end turns and dust, . When we ar-.• ne irrigation just dry. ground and
rived in Golden, little 4194 town;
.sagebrush. wonder if' that is
I 1.n'eathed a Sigh of relief that
what. is 'meant Where the • Bible
we. had passed the Big •Bend,, only Says, "The desert shall rejoice and
to be told that we hadn't, even bleasons as the rose'? And so We
reached, it yet! The part We' .had reached Kamloops and a grand visit
posed • was just under -construction. with relatives' there, who took ns
There' were places whet% two cars all about the city. and eurrounding
could. .itet possibly .• meet. There,. country, and told us. the., history
were Steep elimbs and just. as steep of that pa rt ' of British -Columbia.
descents. • There were _hairpin
At Kamloops,- •
curses. and, curves 'end I began First of %.vesaw the -Museum.
16 think 'a whole alphabet:in-one- It was .part of the . Hudson Bay
curves And always; at. a corner,
post which was opened at Cuneloup,
that deep srawning., chasm at'. one. as' Kamloops . was then ealled, and.
side ---if not at both. 1We seemed is the oldestet•building in British
tottering 'en the' edge of Eternity. Columbia. . It is e 'very interesti g
I was Afraid to look either up or - •
place and we were treated sokin ly
down for.. feu. -wbat
•Mr. Campbell;: the curatOrs of the
see,- or fail to see, •and there, was Meeenne 'Later,' he gave. me
always fife, road:to, look, for. The book of the -history of the. dietriet.
'ca•bite we had• .et .Golden •was not We saw'ssome. stones, which.. had
modems but We slept. like the deed. been used fog ,.geinding finer .-•in
Next niornipg we. were covering
the first 111111 there. There . were
exPeriences. With fellow -travellers,
also, eome stones 'whieb the Indians
and.the feelings were.all alike. We
luta; not enjoyed. our drive.. One
plan, from. Prince. Albert, Saskatch-
ewan, said he Would not' have••taken
$100 and missed it, blit he wouldn't
take $100' and, go 'over it , again,
(Next morning, when we saw him•
agoin, he said he wouldn't take
$1000* •aref drive , over the Bend
agrt in.) • ,
. Worse .and More of
. -And that remark prepares you
for 'Ni'hat we eXperienced. -for the
next 190 miles from 'Golden to
Revelstoke. It .was worse,' 'if pos.
.sible, "than 't•he day befote.-- When
was .over, we 'undereto.od why
people,, looked at. a question-
ing aed pitying eir when we: as-
sured them . quite blithely. that, "of
..course; we were going by the • Big
Bend." Because, added to all the.
haaards we had met theelay before,
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we had Ciptids. of dust and wash-
boards and bumps- and pot -holes,
.in the road and . climbs and height
and canyons-41nd, four -times as
.fak -to go. . AS.I remember le now,
With a brain rwhich Was then numb
with. tear, it was. a. ,wielle day- Of
up, and around and up ,and around
and up and arbund spine, more, and
thee clown •and around and aeonnd
and clown aftee a breathtaking iew
from . the top. It Was • down and
down . and around. until We. would
conte to an curve- With a Curving
bridge (which was just a stepping
stone to the• next mountain and
stath a. fragile structure stha.t We
would be almost ..afraid to cress it
,Tr"Tc• 3.'ere bv,er the Nine Mile.
River. at • h9me), and another
Curve at the per 'side.- • "lend then
it •would- nil bin again as we
started up the next •mountain, with
a few extra hairpin turns and more
dizzying eliinbs throWn .in. for
variety—and still • no guard rails
or fences or posts! Oh; 'yes", every
few miles there Would , be • signs
saying' ,Slide Area, or .Wa•tch. for
Rolling" Rock.. began to under-
stand why the Ihdians told, such
stories of the. ,spleita. vehieh'
• dwelt in the mountainS. I had
been -thrilled at My ,fIrst • sight a
the anountaines-stutssthe-----thrilla
turned ',to chills before' two daYS
• were oyer, and the chills were hot.
ebills a have heard of cold Fiweats,
SO why .not hot cliflis too?) before;
we were stile good road rigain.1
As Ave got into the. mountains,
• began ,to have almost a . trapped'
feeling: s .eeethed sibalt
and„ insignificant, - not. ilite "flies
which.'have wings and some .chanee
te escape, but like ants :or other
kind of earthbound inseet. ',The
mountains 'looked so grim and in-:
imical that I epuld easily „Imagines
them. .'1)ecoming • actively' hostile.
Atte. It didn't take much.-111111On-
ation,/either, when we had, to turn.
out . far , lutge chunk' of rock,
as big.as the car, which had .rolled
.down into • the ,zniddle of • the road.,
We, were, mighty,. glad to drive into
Revelstoke, mid - see - the beteutifid
gardens. there, afte?4he miles, and
miles of mortantak .ttnd sombre.
evergreen trees, rock slides and,
rushing streams. .1frowever, we. bad,
rounded tbe Big Bend freally 'the
Olney of the Columbia (ee,it finds
its . way around the xnountailn,
ranges) and .Ive had smived the
Jy"tperlence. We have heard! Of
people, •tuvding, or having,*.hervek
yt. steel, but -1 think; on the Big,
Bend, they. need nerves of. nyloh,.
whicli will stretch and itive and
lieti..come back tO,..noritial agalft,
'E,. Oen ,weiconled the
41g10..Of treeless •prairlest 'flow-
,
•
girmirimourimr
a the ahittErtat bad 1.1.4ed ff.).; grin -
'nig their grata* "ViCerOnkere .sonte.
dug -out •,cattoes. 1 lind that the
Indiana-.411,-suse.d dugzoata,
partly beelase-.-they .were stronger
fa -.the coastal waterg and.. Wild
was 14.9.,_ blmblark Out -
raids,: and partly . because there
there.' There was a large collectip'
of old And fairly new _guns tied
shells f�r theca.- There were sheths:
of %a lulunber of .strange sea ere°• ,
tures—at least,they were strange
to me. We saw a Very 'old bicycle,
of the 'One -shaker type,. •and. some'
old- 'Edison phonographs _with the
tubular disks or reeordSs They
• still Keyed, .after a fashion. We
recognized "The Blue Danube:"
.There were .hundreds, of- pictures
of: pedple _and events of the' 014
daysof Kamloops. They have eelte
an extensive collection Of moillited
birds, animals apd insects Which
,are "native to BritLsh Coltunbla,
and some, prehistoric_ fossils. We.
saw a numbeeig interesting, Indian,
made things, clothing,' weaving,.
baskets, war clubs, etc, Tittere are
.tnauy.- • old . maps amt. document,
'We saw pictures and, heard the
story of Bill Miner, the Robinsflood
of Bri.ti•sh. •Columble, who robbed
trains and then gave his ill-gotten
gains to , the poor. Kamloops was
first used by the fur traders as
early as 1812stald was taken. over
by the H.B.C. in 1821. ' One of the
colorful eheracters in, the early
days, was-thiown as St. Paul. Ills
racial origin .nay have been FreeCh
and Indian. 'nisi. Lake, a few
iniles away, was named' after. him,
.1(atues. Macintosh was another of
the- Old-timers, who went from By -
town to Kamloops. 'He laid out
the, first town • site • and . planned
the waterworks and eiectricity, and
ran the first grist mull. The .Mae -
'Mesh Memorial- Lookout is the
best place to see the whole 'city of
Kamloops. Mr. Campbell Campbell told tie
thes story , of . the overland party
which came by oxcart, from Fort
Garry' to Kamloops in 1802.' The.
hat survivor of the party died of Whet British Columbia can really
in. 1940. The fur brigade, which predUce. . Most •ef them were
took ,furs overland to Tort .Astoria, strange to mep but • again 1 was
had .horses at Kamloops on, a sort'. impressed with the brilliance' of the,
Of ra.neh. •These • are only a few colors out here. ' Driving back, we
of •the things' we 'heard about at- watched the soft light of evenipg
the Museum: •
The next afternoon We went 'for 1s1t1e041T• hoosill'eprsotnhe.,Rihvielrls.
.usWt ebelcor the
a drive Up to Lake Paul, over the Junction of tbe Mirth end south
ISkiddani Flats and throughsome branches, • after -. passing through
of', the: dry ..raaphing country 1 North Kamloops,' .The.n we went
'mentioned before. Our driver was up lb the Lookout and saw 'the
.Jack, Home,' • whose 'father once lights of the little city—row :After
Worked.in •the old Glebe office in straight row of streets, with Mounts
Toronto, jest about the thee George Peter 'and Paul looming.up in the
Brown Was shot. It was very background. and the little .vivage
beautiful arolind .the lake .and there of Shuswap Indians betireen •the
were many water pipets growing in branches of 'the river; the town
the watere•-•aS w,ell as many' fish, 'itself, we had s,:een stieh a variety
.knewn as Kainleops.- . • Thehills of Asiatic races, a weli as Anglo,
were very dry -hooking. except in •Saxons. . .Kamloops is said to mon
some Of the little hollows, but the -Meeting, of the Wafers', It
,I -was told that they were -.green might well mean the meeting Of
in the epring,•.,In the hot ,weistlier,„ .the races. There were Chinese
the .sinell of sagebrush Was lets and ••Japanese laborers on the rail -
tantalizing.. `S, In the , evening,' we way gangs—one• man told Us there'
drove out to. Tranquille, where:one was a. deadcoolie for every 'tie. in
of the B,C, Sans is located, • The the railways There are ntanY Eest
site. is. 'ou. a hill. and. the . view is •Indiene in business as ••well as the
very charming. The flowers around .North ,American . Indians 'on . the
the San . were 'the first I had seen 'Reserve... There are .descendants of
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