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Poriry. FOR HUSBANDS ONLY. Tes Brown was alweys faa tret, Hecsade, sonide, be kett La debt, Wit he dustened ihe Waa wire Au knew ewo eonomise sto live with pride, apkeside, 1 ae cece, and foeu yortitle edge aud worries free.” fe, ings do his wife, oto save ‘ tNoight genre nor period. ‘Tom, freed fret este, Wasel fat ap wife's Good tere, Whethed Tern’s lus bon in Hie- Wes picsureta Lis eam fal wife. . MORAL, Maus forte ip earning gold alone! Tu spealing is his meskes shown, oy ieture kiant, to the Dave Y VICTORIA TO ACTON, A Tea Picture of a Trip Frow lithh Columtla tu Acton over the National Usertaued Highway aS WITH JOTTINGS BY THE Wy. Now that one great Nathas 1 railway, the C.P. Ry epses the Dowie uion from the aAdestic to the Pecific, ud the various ly brought closee to. sie Puccuant of te jairney from the Pacific coast to Acton will co doubt the sead with interest by the ‘Testlers of ogee Deacees Vort Vancdaver, the elle’ of the Present city of Vigloricou Vancource (sland was svanuenee) in the yore ING by the Rus sian American Fur Company and enclosed one hundred yards equere by cedar loge tisenty feet tough. At the north-east and south-west eagles were oe gon bastions inganted with wix pounders. At this time and up to 120 there were no courts of justice in Diitish Columbia, and all legal matters of importance led to be sent to Lontreal a journey of at least six months. In 182%, one y ter the discovery of cell, Wexcouver lelagd wes proclaimed a British colony and wes ofered to the Hed. vinpauy In fee siuple on condi. wig it; the Inglish govern ment reserving the right of appointing the governor. In 1252 there were ‘but twelve hoz ids in the city limits. In 1836 the eelnassembly was opened for ted cancestal of ecvea meribere. In 1873 six thousand people landed in ieccuant of the cess of gold hepices to the Fraser Niven. In this fear Tet Renepepl was published adder of the De storia Gaztée, and oar twa ‘hu Ared ad (thirty. cae Vtadele. et yep: sletion of Victoria in 183s waS! er Uy and in ssze it bed then reduced wing principally to the failure of a government to impress the people that the Cxvedé Pacific Hailey sid the beanch line from Equitosclt on the island to Nausimo, would saga bs built. To this year the Earl of Daérin ® went to Vietoris in order to emeliorte, and pacify the people t bat not until the year 1833 was the contract made for the coretraction of the Heysstrasult Nensimo railway. In is-Obrevictus lulflment of the railway eles heautaried tithe rems of anion were arranged; a . In spite of the many drawbacks endec, which Victoria city has labored ht has ad vanced gusce 1652 from a hamlet oft twelve Wooden tents t9 be a city of over 13,000 in habitents, with a ne.trade, steds, fine baidcaunicy, rosds, with the most beautifully pictaresque drives verging in all directions that any cone could desire. The city Gass Jarre trade in naval sap, generél entshaudice, Gh, coal and timber. . . . From Victoris you reach Vancoutes, the western terminus of the C. P.R., by an eight hour rey on acesmer whose coareé is throagh the Pacst sound end the gulf of Georgis. The scenery here is very fine; the many islands making the passage most attractive.Nercoaver city is situated on wbzy on the mainland of Batish ,Cottinbis and th2s had a wonderfully mush room growth. This city lies. population of nearly 7,000 the growth of three years. This is the port for the C. PR. steaters for China and Japan, and is destined to be at greatelty. In the vicinity are very ex ‘tensive saw mills. Wastward from Van couver at the head of Barcard later is Port Moody, for a time the provisional termines of the C.P.R. In the vicinity are to be found the Sage cedar trees that have be come cofsmeas. Some of them measure over doven feet in diameter. New Weat minster is the only other town of sreat im portance in British Columbia and is distant from a Vancouver about twelve miles. It is bisutifully situated onhhe Fraser river god far famed for its salmon rues. This city has about 446s ihabi lunta, has ex tensive cW mills, and is the headquarters for the salmon canning industry of British Columbia. “ From ‘New Westminster function the railroad boinds eastward following the course of glee.Praser rivee which is here, a beauful, wide, smooth stream, but as you go eastward,a river becomes narrower and more turbulent. This is the chief river of British Columbia and rises in the northern portion of the Rockies and after a course of over five hundred miles makes its way to the strait of Georgia. From Wapcouvet eastward to Yale, the head of navigation of the Fraser rivers and an outfitting point for miners and ranch men, the distance is abeut one hundred miles, and the chief points of attraction are the splendid Hope peaks, the wagon road built by the British Columbia government avan € vents to the Cariboo gold -dizyings, the rade lids of the Indians and Cumnsmey #ho Ret their whole,living from the river, dring salon, fishing sod washing the sarnds of the river-bed for gold. East of Yale we enter the Cascade range’ of moun teibe add pees the celebrated over-lyanging hich took 89 dangerously gpand, but the G. . Be officials, ever frolnuty- bev men scaling the track ceagelessly andj accidente are scarcily’ possible. The wazou tosd already referred to ie quires mention, for it is scarcely less re markable than th magnificent railway Wat ftas made it pase almost into digase. Sometimes you ‘tee it on one side of you and sometimes ‘on the other; sometimes]: above you and sometimes below. At one, Blsce « gentleman could ride in this wagon for some distance and toss his cigar stab’ ‘into the taying Fraser 1,30 i feet below. We believe any sineer the Teckass’ Wom ains, oo called because a work,nan backed his donkey over this precipitous place. Accidents would seetimes happen on a wagon read co fraucht with danger. The weddedt related to me was that of 4 man, his wife and three children, who were rid ing over as a part of the road, who were, oying to their team becoming restive and damanageable, harled with, the tear, and conveyatse over hig deadiy fieecipice into cny waters of this potlest British rver. Their driver jumped and 2 remained to tell the gad tale. Not a Nestiga , the party was ever seen tcorn. The river here plunges through a narrow rocky pass and is hundreds of feet deep. Bo far I lave carried you out about 130 miles to North Bend and as we have about 2,500 miles yet before we reach Acton, fre: will have to merely glance as we pass by. The train carries us eastward and we pass treigh dark tcnnels, over airy tredtles and rocky area with scenery indescetic ally gread and majestically terrific on both a sides of the rack.* Sometimes trees stand ets oketreight each sider of fire eweps imouktains, whose peaks are ever clad in caow; sometignes ever creca ekrabs meet the eye densely entering the whole mountain slope, save where thehoudering scow lide bag guept a clean pathway for wiles snapping off huge trees like pire steme and carrying everything before it. These cuiverlides were the greatest source of denzer and diffculty to travellers sid e the reilrosd cot the snow sheds were built. These sheds are now baile ig all the mozt dascergas places and cause the slide to pass harmlessly over the track. There are now over eleven maifea of snow sheds built tohe mountains, ey The ecenary as we so on for hundreds of mules excites our awe and admiration and we are scarcely less struck with the slmegt experhuman skill of the men who engine ed the road. The cantilever bridge, ate Cisco, where no protraging rocks are used to cross the river ere worthy of ngte. “We pase Savona MWS miles from Madcoaves where this Government road ends$and the CBR. commenced to bald eastward e connect this creatrauscontinental ros! The country for mites here looks very di smalend is comparatively parched and bar re, except for the fassas bancheraes Which is exid to be very muteitied — Here we strike the celebrated dry belt astween the Gold and Caszady mountains, and here nothing can be grown without irrigation. Agriculture and fruit raising a ocoled wher ever thic is practicable. Kamloops is the Prinncipal town in this vicinity and, is pice tarésya¢ hosted on the south bank of the Thomisao rive . Aren Kaloops we pass, through, the Golid range to the top of Exy dle pasa LS fees above the ez, thence to the Sootgh naméd etation of Craigellachie where Sir Donald Smith drove the ‘Heat apike to the GPS in Nov. 1535, 2,553 miles rou Montreal A's noticeable point : Alber Casyca where the Uchliwact rive rushes ‘throes fy a 20 (pot channel 30) tees deep directly below the rain. A ‘Latte far ther on to the left we che fe Uli qhiwacts excavations in the sides of the moantaids! There are the silver mines of great promise. Farther on we dome to the great stilt piece of exgiveecing 02 the whole road Here we ascend the moantail of rathe piss through a canyon by hops where ‘tf road covers six mills in order to make t+ gateral nutes of herdway. Lady Mac donald has described this part of the 4 very graphically. We merely meat 3 Giscier House, Sir Donald peak, Roger pass, the Surprise, Selkirk summit, an’ stop ten minded ‘at the igigziteas lid town of Donald, on the bank of the Colum bia river endhed quarterd of construction in the mountains. We are, iuta and almost passed, throat the grandest an lovelic cenery on the whole route, th S elkires. “They power behind ‘the pesi quita incapable of giving a description at all the subteity of language would abti lately fail'to point their maguikcecce. Soon we leave the Selkirk to them and advance to the Rocky Mountains, a most famous’ moantaing do this contige. We enter the canyon of the Kicking Hot end ascend to Palliser, a barge lamb depot 30 feet high, up through Oute tail to the pretty fittle: heal . station Field, 4030 feet, where you may dixe ramiptuously ag at ove first-class city hotal Many fine mountain summits are passe esch so important ag to hate avame of t own, taken from one of Canada's fam meéo. At Field we commence to ascend. Very steep grade to Hector. In eight mi] the ascent is from 4,650 fort to 5,192 fae or westly quarter of a mile. Two engin are required to take a train up or down to grade and the strongest and largest engin on the road’are stationed here to assist the ascent and dascent. Up to this time the rivers leave all tle westward towards the Pacific Ocean. Thry miles further east we come to Mount Stephen, the summit of the Rockies, a feet above the sea. From here the rives flow eastward ‘and westward.” Here iwe begin to descend the eastern slope of Rockies, passing Castle’ Mountain, on way to Banff, having a ‘ine situation nin ke minion Government, and senlarly Bota, see its pes hot ‘s rings. ‘ reach Calpary, the Suest west Territories, from altitude of nearly 6800 £ this town there has been during the past year, for with fine brick and stone buildings, in plate glass, windows are the order a day. There is scarcely any snow in Vicinity during the Whole year, and ¢ the territories,*and situated two miles northward ‘are the mounted police barracks, where a fore of 1000 men are stationed to preserve the place and prevent the illicit sale of whiskey which is prohibited” in the territories. After gazing on a snow cWered boundless, ‘Prairie and viewing the dusky natives whose features seem 0 be more ill formed than our own Ontario Indians it does one's eye good to catch sight of a policeman. ein usually a very fing look- ing man nicely got up to his bright red uniform, polished boots and silver spars, abt usdally boards the train at each station in the territories to see that no sogirab and whiskey is being carried by passenger to pass on eastward out of the es into Manitoba, the finest wheat grow in country in the world. It is estimated that 600,009 bushels of wheat were harvested in the country’ this Year. ‘Here the ‘tper mometer goes down to 48? below zero occa sionally, but the sturdy “Mapitoban tells youth that is not so cold as 207 below in Ontario. . All the same we observed that the chickens were usually tocless ,and the cure care were dropping. Blinding bicards ‘sometimes ‘happen. , Daring ace of these last January St. Effioca, a Isd tamed Murray, 18 years of age, started on Wed nesday to go three miles to the village for medicine for a sick person. “It was thought by his friend that he had reached the village and, was staying there all night. What was their bocter on Friday morning to hear the Poor fellow thump at the door with his frozen hands. He had dragged himself home on his elbows and knees, on d during unkown pangs in mind and body. He had only recently been released from the Winnipeg hospital and has lost both hands and feet. In Manitoba we pass Brendon, a fire fourishing tan of about 4000, and Porta de la Prairie, the garden of Manitoba, and then on to the far famed city of Winnipeg. Everyone is delighted with Winnipeg. barring those, who had their fingers burnt in the boom. It has the finest street in the continent, it is said, and numbers public and business buildings second to co city in the country. The rail Way passes eastward from Winnipeg through Rat Portage of disallowante note, and Reewastin, where extensive* saw mills are in operation and where the ‘great, stone flouring mills of the Keewatin Millining Co. are operated by splendid water power. At Fart William, the largest elevator in Canada, is situated with capacity for “one and a quarter ‘million bushels of wheat. With store rooms for 600,000 bushells more. Six miles east from here is Port ‘Arthur, with a beautiful situation on the shore of Thunder Bay, and, where connection is made,unto the C.P. R's. fine steel-clad steamers for Qwell Sound.” Passing along the north shore of Lake ‘Superior by the train we view scenery scarcely less inter esting than the mountains and where ‘the skill of the engineer has been almost equally taxed. From here to North Bay the country is seemingly barren, and uninter esting. North Bay is a very fourishing village of about a thousand inhabitants. It is the junction of the C. P. BR. and the Northerd railway which takes you to Tor onto. “South of North Bay about forty miles is South River, a thriving village where there is plenty of fshing and hubt ing.” This is growing to be ssing place of tourists and the land in the vitility is ex cellent for farming. . As most of your, restlers. are’ familie with hy journey from this peist to Toronto and to Acton, nothing more need be added. After asking your pardon for trespassing 80 far on your space I subscribe myself. WwW. ANEIELE, “
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Acton, Ontario, CA
Thu, Apr 26, 1888
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