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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1923
Page
4
A letter from J F P Spaulding of the South Eastern British Columbia and Southern Alberta Tourist Association urges increased advertising spend. He reports sending out 40 000 bulletins including a map of the territory and notes strong early tourist traffic results from roads mapped and logged.
A photographer asserts British Columbia offers unmatched scenery and road quality. He notes North American visitors, especially Americans, increased from under 60 Canadian cars five years ago to about 3000 last year, underscoring the tourist trade’s potential and the need for better promotion.
Calgary fair week of July features stampede parade cattle shows and a buffalo meat feast. Notable guests include Prince of Wales and Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks trophies. Officials promise fair play and permanent camps, with prizes, a new highway opening, and free accommodation assistance.
British Columbia's legislature plans to convene in October with no early session expected. Premier Oliver says member travel home for Christmas is a goal, and Ottawa has not sent freight rate guidance. He aims for full rate equalization with the east, continuing the fight for complete satisfaction for the west.
The Literary Digest promotes Canadian Rockies tourism with the Banff Windermere motor road opening June 30. The 93 mile route links a 6500 mile circle visiting ten national parks, attracting US drivers. It notes bungalow camps from June 15 to September 15 at Moraine Lake O'Hara Wapta Yoho Emerald Lake and Windermere area camps in the Columbia River Valley.
Daily schedules for trains serving Cranbrook with arrivals and departures to Nelson Vancouver Spokane Fernie Lethbridge Medicine Hat Calgary and Windermere. Services include No 67 No 68 No 823 No 894 No 521 and No 822 with weekly days and agent J B Proctor Calgary for details.
Vancouver Liberal Association president J. A. Campbell announces a convention before September 1 following last fall’s Nelson meeting which called for a summer gathering. M. A. Macdonald has discussed timing with Premier Oliver, but no date set. Mrs Mary Ellen Smith urged Ottawa politics and an early election to strengthen government power.
Reports from Wasa include miners traces in Tracey during peak operations, abandoned mines near Tracey, and prospects of revival. Walter Carruthers from Bad Axe Michigan praises western climate while Weatherall becomes truck driver for Lovering Co. River rise floods low lands, delaying lumber mill operations and logs intake. Scotty McRitchie returns from coast with tales. brothers in banking noted.
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