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The Clinton News Record, 1931-07-30, Page 6'THE CLINTON-NEWS RECORD ° their wives and daughters gathered outside the Hotel Saskatchewan on the occasion of the Association's enjoyed convention on many Canadian .Weekly Newspaper Association. of Canada with hole rt went by special train osertheCanadian Pacific to Banff where Yo ay y. cols and ;. Members of the Hess of the convention thew Pa y, the elf course plunged into the swimming p est and most romantic scenery they played over g , " held at Regina attractions of Banff Springs Hotel and the and Lake days.. Among hiked over mountain trails during three busy and happy I• e ins July and 4. After two days spent m the bust some of the :world's fin NOTES_ BY THE WAY Grain Exhibition is to be held next ing. Forgive -us butwe are very several nnmense proud °of the fact that we had the By E. G. H. Th year. ere are buildings . under • construction and first dance with Mr. S. J. Latta who from appearances the World's Grain I had•been a member of the Saskatche- Show will be a magni£igant affair; wan -Cabinet for more than twenty Vine were driven' to the 'Parliament years. He has been Minister of i - Education and Minister of 'Highways and Public Works. In his younger days Mr. Latta was a school -mate of Dr. J. W;. Shaw and he recounted many of the incidents of - those far off, happy days. Mr. Latta also taught school for twenty -Sive years, but. he can trip the light fantastic with the others. • Also that evening your writer had the distinct honour and privilege of dancing with the Von. James G. Gardiner, ex -premier of Saskatchewan, • who hails from South Huron. We all agreed that it was very nice to have lived or to live in Huron County. Buildings where we signed the leg s lw'o weeks ago there was a short iter. The spacious halls were empty article telling of some of the thing`s I and as we looked inthe rooms were we did in Regina when we attended,.members meet for their sessions we the 12th Annual Convention of the `could imagine the heated debates that members of The Canadian Weekly have been and those that will take Newsp'apernten's Association. Wb d place there. Then lVlr. Cook drove us a had such a marvellous time through the educational sectionsan( save, 'heard and did.so many things I the schools are everything that mod - that' I hope you. will bear with me' rim schools should be like. One e gently if I relate them for you. (school impressed us deeply—the We left Clinton just in time' to meet W'hetmore School containing any - the heat wave coming east. It was where from twenty-five to thirty very uncomfortable travelling. We I rooms and within whose wails there used to . get off at the various di- are twenty-five languages being spo- visional points to stretch our legs; ken. We also saw Luther College and and the thermometers on the station Mounted Police grothe uLonds, in 1 payed which platforms registered anywhere fron is place where 104 degrees and up. Some say it withhis s life e were hdis laven le s292tions, was 120 degrees at one place. We Then Al - spent a rather warm July 1st in Miss Welts o "VlseBethne" thieha sietof of Winnipeg. On Thursday at noon we arrived in Regina. .The cancellation fnMr. the President of acBetC.W.N.A., for of the Confederation had delayed us and we missed the first session of 19304981. e were and spent a few meirvedsain dainty 'the convention. In the afternoon friends with others. mak- there'-was a drive about the city and ing • we were the guests of Mr. A.S. Cook Then we were taken back to Hotel who on hearing we were from Clinton Saskatchewan where we rested before Ontario said, Would it interest you preparing for the banquet tendered to know that I was born within two by the Board of Trade of Regina. miles of Clinton?" We assured him After the toast to the King there we were interested. He remembered was a short program of songs by the the names of several of the older Board of Trade quartette, and a num- families. ber of dances by the small, graceful • students of the dancing school, The The ice was broken and our driver speaker of the evening was the Hon proceeded to drive us, around Regina, James G. Gardiner, Leader of the pointing out the places of interest. Opposition in the Saskatchewan gov- We saw the oil refining district the ernment. Mr. Gardiner gave us a business sections of Regina, tdhicll very interesting address which comprises a large number of mann- facturing concerns, chiefly farm im- plements. No matter where the fac- tories were situated one could see spur lines from the railroads, and as a result we were always crossing railroad traitlss. However we did not meet any trains and we went on to view the grounds where the World's after we left Calgary. Then in no time at all we were entering the Rocky mountains by the Eastern Gap. Also we had our first sight, at least some of us I mean—of snow- capped mo».:tains. This was so very refreshing as it had been unbearably hot and dusty through Northern On- tario and Saskatchewan. The train climbed gradually but- continually and "the thought came to us of what a stupendous bit of work it was, the construction of a railroad through tic mountains. On friday =Horning and afternoon we were free to do as we liked. • I mean the feminine members of the Convention. We of course went shopping, which is always supposed to be dear to the feminine heart. We spent a number of happy hours browsing around in Regina shops Then we returned to dress for anoth- er banquet. This time we were the guests of th• Government of Sask. Hon. Howard McConnell, MC.,., was chairman and after the address " of welcome Mr. S. J. Dornan of Alain- eda, Sask., President of the C.W.N.A. -1:1 for 133132, and Mr. E. Roy Sayles of Renfrew replied on behalf of the Convention. There were several vo- cal -numbers' by prominent ve,ealists then came the address by Hon. J. T Bryant, K.G. Mr. Bryant gave us a sketch of the History of Saskatche- wan, a few important facts that have to 'do with the agricultural greatness and importance of the province. bio light forth the ideals and future possibilities we have as Canadians. Later in the evening we boarded a After the Banquet there was a special C.P.R. train for Banff. Sy dance in the Colonial Ball -room of this time everyone had renewed old Hotel Saskatchewan given to the acquaintances, made new ones and all members of the •Convention by the was merry as a children's party. I World's Grain Show executive. Thir was waiting eagerly for my glimpse is where we do our little bit of boast- of the foothills. We saw them soon By lunch time we were at--Banffstation. ' Busses were there to talc( us up to Banff Springs Hotel, the palatial C.P.R. summer Impel whisk appears from a distance to be like e British Baron's feudal castle set a- mong the mountains. 1 cannot find words to describe the beauty of the setting for this summerhome fel travellers. Snow-capped mountains a mountain stream, a waterfall, the greenness of the golf course, the stat- ely trees, the mountain flowers. • PI tfli,SDA,Y, JULV uO, 1.931 to Ontario life. Ilowever we made ourselves thoroughly acquainted with Calgary., The only matter that woi- lied us slightly was the absence of traffic. signals and Calgary present. ed the apnearanee' of :Toronto in. "Pair" time. We left Calgary on Sunday af., ternoon and 'went to Melville, Sask., where we visited with relatives, for a week, Melville had not had rain this year and on the second night of our visit we received the tail -end of the cyclone that struck Regina. Nev- er before had weever seen such a brilliantdisplay of lightening which lasted all night till early morning. The trip from Wlinnlpeg to Toron- to is exactly the same as from Tor- onto to Winnipeg and we would like to advocate a change in train sched- ule which would allow people to see the "beautiful' Muskoka distniet by day -light at least once, on this route. We got off. at Poleyetand. a :fellow -traveller ex- plained the origin. of Foleyet. A cer- tain contractor by the name of Foley went to Northern Ontario and built several homes in a small settlemem at the railway divisional point. 1‘10, - strange twist of fate the Englishman ' tional's newest western boats, the . turally he wished the towntown to was separated from his companions Prince Robert. The Prince Robert and , be called Foley. The people had and his horse evidently didn't like Prince David make the triangular 1 1ther plans, but firmly said, the eIc will contraabet r F'quyt- travelling in the mountains so he tour between keve Van is and Y threw his master and kicked him. The wounded man remained uncon scious until his companions found him. Consequently .he named the Pass and River, Kicking Horse. The road led .us to the beautiful Yohc Valley. It. is, Yoho-Yoho an. Indian word meaning wonderful: The can- yon is over ' two hundred feet in depth'. and it was necessary to get out of the car and peer oper the roadside railing in order to see the river yelow. Farther on, on the op- posite side, what appeared to be a child's toy train emerging from a tunnel was in reality a life-sized freight train on its way East. The highway is in excellent condition and although we made some, hair-raising curves especially at the switchback where we climbed more than two hundred and twenty feet in less than a third of a mile, we never felt as if we were on a dangerous road. amenseasertmer The person. who drives in the middle of the 'road at . any speed, but especially the extremely slow driver, offers a silent insult to every other driver �n the highway. But .this disregard of every r=ule .of common courtesy is merely incidental. The real offense of the Road Hog is that he forces others to risk life and limb. He obstructs the vision of th®S e drivers behind him and makes them either drive at his speed or riskoa head-on collision in passing him. Probably no form of law -breaking on the highways causes directly or indirectly so varied a list of accidents as does middle-of-the-road driving. Every man who drives a car helps to pay for the highways. Every motorist is entitled to use them safely. Why deprive any man of his right? Don't be a Road Hog. ONTARIO I)EPA.R.TMENT of ° IHAYS , GBO. S. HENRY, PREMIER OP ONTARIO .AND 1VIINISTER OF HIGHWAYS Fz After lunch we toured the grounds with scene friends and everywhere we came upon something more enchanting than before,' -Coming down a hill we turned and there was a fawn, who seemed not at all perturbed by out unseemly and sudden interruption of his nap. We snapped hint at a dis- tance of six feet and his only objec- tion was in moving his ears, much the sante movement, I suppose as f lifting of an eyebrow. After a long walk we decided to see what we could do about a motor trip. It was nearly five o'clock. We hired a seven pas- senger car and driver and spent two delightful hours driving in the vicin- ity of Banff. We were driven throitwh the Park where we saw several spec. fes of Rocky Mountain goats and sheep and buffalo and moose. Then the driver proceeded to take us up a mountain, round and round we went, the road appearing to be wide enough for one car, but two cars were forced to pass one another, much to our horror. Of course we did not feel so horror-stricken when we had the inside course. We also visited the cave near Banff. We could not go into it to any great extent, but we could feel cool enough and the place was eery and spooky, accen- tuated by falling"water•.' An electric light bulb lighted the place to a small extent, but there were shad- ows and dark corners. That night after dinner we attend. ed the performance of "A, Trial by Jury"' by Gilbert and Sullivan, pre- sented by The Alfred Heather Light Opera Company. This company com- prises several clever actors and splen did singers. Then followed several hours of dancing which we watches' for a short interval. Our principal interest was the decision of how we would travel next day, which requir- ed a couple of hours with time tables and travel literature. At ten o'clock the next morning busses were ready to take us to Banff station where we boarded our special strain 'for Lake Louise, Lake Louise is about forty miles from 'Banff and the train climbs almost steadily and curves it and around the mountains, that al tithes we would appear to be meet ing the engine an its return kin The clouds being low or appeared sr because they hid tine peaks of the mountains from our view. In a short time we felt the train at Lake Louise station and we boarded the smaller cars, with gasoline motors which took us up to Lake Louise. This is where we climbed steadily because Lake Louise is more than a mile it. hove sea level. Lake Louise is all and more than we might have dream- ed it was. It has a magnificent set- ting of mountains and glacial form. ations and the clearness of the water shows that the lake is fed from mountain streamswhich are clear and cold, Chateau Lake Louise is anoth- er splendid summer hotel operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is just as luxurious as Banff Springs Hotel. We had an enjoyable hour of so walking in the grounds and then we• left the C.W.N.A. party and. start- ed out with some friends. We hired First of al' a car for tho.afternoon. we made the seven mile trip to the 'Great Divide where British Colum bio is on one hand and Alberta is on the other. A stream of water' coming down the mountainside is divided one of the new streams flows to the Pacific and the other links up wit) other bodies of water and ultimately reaches the Atlantki Oeeaen. Ther' we saw the Kicking Horse Pass ani the Kicking Horse River., I wonder if I 111114 little fit queer cir are there others who, when they 'see' a geogra- phical n.aine wonder about its ori- gin. Kicking Horse presents a good example.. Our driver was getting us- ed to being plied with questions sc it was the hottest clay the Western . he camplied. In 1882 an Englishman Coast had known this year. We stn - with a small panty was riding barked on one of the Canadian Na through that . district. By some Another beautiful sight is thel Tak- akkaw Falls in Yoho Park, B.C. These waters fall thirteen hundred and six- ty feet. We stopped several times for snap shots and a better view of the beautiful scenery spreading a- round us. It was necessary to retrace a part of our , jour- ney and then we turned to go to the Natural Bridge. A. solid chunk of rock forms a natural bridge' under which the waters road and rush and seethe and foam. There is, how- ever, a wooden bridge for foot - passengers. We had a lunch at the log cabin Inn, there and then we motored down Snow -Peak Avenue, surely one of the most beautiful of motor driven. in Canada.' Mount Burgess with its- cap of glistening snow lay straight ahead and on eith- er side were the tall firs of British Columbia. We turned down a road in order to reach Emerald Lake. Never have we seen water of such a pure emerald colour. The setting in the mountains was beautiful but not so majestic as that around Lake Louise. There are several Chalets at Emerald Lake and we imagine it, would be perfectly wonderful to be able to spend a vacation in such a beautiful vacation land. Another drive down Snow -Peak avenue and then a turn to another road and soon we. were in Field, B. C., where we intended to board th' C.P.R. train that night. It was only six o'clock and we walked about the little mountain town : and then the had dinner at Mount Stephen House Mount Stephen is a snow-capped peak, one of the many surrounding the wee town; while the others were resting I sat by the window and watched the night creep over the mountains. Mountains to the left, mountains to the right, mountains to front, mountains behind us! I began to think, that in spite of the fresh mountain air, the beauty of the scen- ety-. T would soon feel like a caged animal and long for Ontario with its gentle rolling lands. All the next day we travelled through the mountains, through tun- nels around curves, over bridges. That night we reached Vancouver, the Western Gateway of Canada. Af- ter we had established ourselves in a hotel we went out for a brief wally in down -town Vancouver, We planned to spend Tuesday in Stanley Paris. Mr. Skinner who oWns the newspaper in Whitehorse Yukon Territory, came to see us. We had met Mr. Skinner in Halifax and we had a pleasant chat about the various beauties of the; Maritimis and British Columbia. Mr. Skinner kindly sug- gested- driving us to Stanley Park. Wie spent considerable time admiring the flowers in the Park. The roses were in full bloom and presented a very pretty show. We lunched at the pavilion and then wandered a- mong the flowers and animals again. We always have a sneaking desire to watch the monkeys who are always so cunning.., One old grizzly could rub his "tunny" when he wanted a peanut. After a rest we decided that according to tradition we must visit "the big cedar." Wie followed the road around the outer edge of the park as far as Prospect Point and ,then we cut through the forest. We were taking chances on reaching our desired destination but we- carne at last to the hollowed old monarch of the forest. We took some snaps and set Out again through the dense bush trying to find a short-cut to the centre of the park. We. reached the park finally and wearily made our way to a street cat'. Walneaday Was. set apart for e boat trip to Victoria. It was really the only sensible thing to do on that day( as the Vancouver papers said Seattle, They have the appearance of palatial ocean liners and have the the distinction of being the fastest ships on the ocean, 28 .knots per hour. It • was delightful to wind a- bout among the islands during the' seventy-five mile voyage to Victoria We were sorry that otir plans did not allow us a day in Victoria the capital city of British Columbia but. we could see the Parliament Btild- ings and other parts of the city from the deck of the returning ship, Prince David. We witnessed a beau- tiful sunset over the Straits of Geor•, gia and gave ourselves up to the magic of the west. All too soon the Prince David docked at Vancouver and we boarded the Canadian Nation- al train, the Continental which would take us as far as Edmonton. It'was a different route than the ORANGES FROM AUSTRALIA one• by which we had conte to Van• ARRIVE IN VANCOUVER couver and during the early morn- ing we could see the farmers work- ing in their fields. Trains seem to be a rather ordinary part of human life, but nevertheless there is some unknown force that makes the far- mer stop• his team and watch the "iron -horse"- until it is out of sight. I could not help but think of that delightful poem of Agnes Maule Ma. char—Untrodden Ways In which she speaks of the mountains em- bracing a stream and the farm and the farmer fresh from a nights ,rest in his clear, tangy mountain air stops with his team to watch the train thundering by. She presents the possible thoughts, thoughts which are true too when you think about it, of the wayfarers who long for the freshness of the mountain life and the .difference it would make in their Iives while on the other hand the farmer wistfully thinks how nitwit better it would be to live in a city among folks and not follow a plow day after day. It only shows that we are never satisfied with our lot but are always looking beyond our limitations. We had five minutes to view Mount Robson the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Our tickets were arranged in such a manner that it was necessary for us to go from Edmonton to Calgary. Of course we wanted to see Calgary, and we spent two delightful clays there. It was Stampede Week. We have never cared much about Stam- pedes and so we did not go to any of the events Probably some of the yet." And Poleyet it is, That night we were watching night • settle down over the new-born for- ests of the north and we suddenly realized that we would be home the next. day. ,Our .hearts beat -with glad little thrill at the thought. We have been fortunate in visiting with- in twelve months, Halifax in East and Victoria in the We" the varied beauties of Canada haye unrolled themselves before our eyes like an immense pan- orama but the old adage seems al- ways true, "East is East and West is West" and Clinton, Ontario has its own charms. Five thousand cases of Australian oranges arrived in Vancouver recent- ly 071 the R.M.S. Avrangi. Since the terms of the new Canadian -Austral- ian treaty which admits Australian oranges free of duty, was not yet in effect, the importers left them in bond for a day or two, expecting that official arrangements inay be made by the beginning of next week for their free entry. • NEW EXPERIENCES AHEAD ;1ll;ost people have noticed that motorists do not like to turn back. One of their aversions is the re -trac- ing of a route once travelled. If they pass a place of refreshment or shelter that they` intended to visit, they go on in the hope that some- thing equally good will offer itself. They wish to see new scenes and have new experiences all along the way. Life is not unlike motoring. We never go back; it is a pity when we want to. Each part of the journey should be so pleasing that we are content to go on. The end is some- where just around the bend ahead of us and the more intriguing because it is out of sight. 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