Identifier: touristsnorthwe00wood (find matches)
Title: The tourist's northwest
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: Toronto : Mc-Clelland, Goodchild (and) Stewart
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Roche Miette (7500 ft.). AtPocahontas station travellers sometimes alight tofollow the bridle path built by the Governmentto the canyon of the curiously out-poured PunchBowl Falls, 3500 feet from the railway. Herethe formation in the cliff is not unlike that sur-rounding the fall in Maligne Gorge. The Miette Hot Springs are in the hills 10 milessouth of Brule Lake. At present they arereached by trail through the valley of FiddleCreek. The canyon of the creek is in itself anattraction, being walled high with rugged preci-pices and marked by a turbulent disorder of rocksand pebbles. Eventually the sulphur springs,three in number, whose waters are almost taste-less and are said to be of higher temperature thanthose at Banff, will be developed by the Govern-ment and the railway, and imposing baths, sani-taria and hotels will rise on this sequesteredheight beneath the frown of Roche Miette. Skirting Brule Lake — the Athabasca in still an-other manifestation — Parkgate is approached be-
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X PRINCE RUPERT TO EDMONTON 501 tween Roche a Perdrix and Boule Roche Moun-tain. At the fortieth mile post from Jasper the Parkbounds are crossed. Beyond Hinton the Atha-basca swerves to the north, the train descends anincline to Edson, continues down grade across agreen plateau, borders Chip Lake and Waba-mun,^ a favourite water-course of Alberta holiday-makers, and ten hours out from Jasper draws intoEdmonton, perched high on the banks of the Sas-katchewan. Edmonton is that rara avis, a frontier town goodto look at. Fine hills well timbered, statelybluffs, a far-famed river, are its scenic attributes.As a phenomenally fast growing centre of tradeits streets show a lively prosperity — shops aregood, buildings pretentious, a delectable hostelrygraces the river-bank, residential avenues areadorned with tasteful and ambitious homes, andriver-side boulevards are a-whirr with motorwheels. Moreover, Edmonton has culture. It isno prouder of its wholesale trade and expandingindustries than

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