THE SCENIC ROUTE ACROSS CANADA

Ladies' Mirror, 1 December 1924, Page 47 (Supplement)

THE SCENIC ROUTE ACROSS CANADA

ONE OF THE GREAT SCENIC TRIPS OF THE WORLD IS THE WONDERFUL JOURNEY ACROSS CANADA BY.THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY ROUTE

K73gE£^£g^iK New Zealanders are too apt to follow accepted routes to the Homeland, forgetiajirjlilri ** n S that, as to Rome, all ways lead to London. Canada to us is a Sister Country, and the trip across the "Rockies" is an education, a wonder, and a delight. In Canada, as in New Zealand, the Government own the railroads, and the service of the National Canadian Railways is one that the tourist must not overlook. Why not let us spell awhile here and. Imperialists as we pride ourselves to be, sec the glories of a trip from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Rut do not be content to just rush through Canada: see it as we would ask a Canadian to see New Zealand. A railway journey from Auckland to lnvercargill by the Main Trunk, gives us a very fleeting impression of New Zealand, and equally so would be a Hying trip from one Canadian seaboard to the other. Why not pause awhile in Canada and take what is locally known as the Triangle Tour? Starting from Vancouver, this includes a journey to the skirts of Alaska, the land of gold and romance, where we cannot fail to realise the glamour, mystery and wistfulness of the storied North. Here we see purple mountains, blue ice-floes in the waters and hear the roaring of the avalanches. This charm of Northern Canada is one no traveller should miss. Thence one travels to the Jasper National Park, a reserve over 4000 miles in area, in which one may see some of the most magnificent

Some of the world's most wonderful mountain scenery is to be found in the National Park.

Recalling recollections of the stones of Red Indians and dauntless pioneers that thrilled our blood in boyhood’s days.

mountain scenery upon the face of the earth.' Over a hundred peaks tower above one, whilst white glacier-hung Mt. Edith Cavell rears its gigantic form above all its fellows. Here are green glistening glaciers, snowfields, awesome canyons, tiny rainbow coloured lakes that gleam like liquid jewelsset to the keys of the thunderous music of the avalanche and the sound of rushing waters. Thence we travel to the Atlantic through the rich wheatflelds of the prairie country, and the vast Laurentian Plateau, wherein is comprehended the world's greatest inland fresh-water seas bounded by primeval forests whose vastness is yet unknown to the devastating axe of commerce. And so to the Atlantic seaboard. It is impossible to convey in print the wonders of Canada, but the traveller to Europe who experiences it will have something ; that, as the Canadian poet writes,

will stir the dreams of days afar

Cold, dreamy visioned. yet with lids ajar.

Full particulars, with illustrated literature, may be had on application to the New Zealand representatives, Canadian National Railways, Ferry Buildings, Auck land.