Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       MAPS

       I

       THE LURE OF THE MOUNTAINS

       II

       THE NATIONAL PARKS OF CANADA

       III

       IN AND ABOUT BANFF

       IV

       THE CANADIAN MATTERHORN

       V

       INCOMPARABLE LAKE LOUISE

       VI

       THE VALLEY OF THE YOHO

       VII

       AROUND THE ILLECILLEWAET

       VIII

       THE CAVES OF NAKIMU

       IX

       MOUNTAIN CLIMBING AND CLIMBERS

       X

       CLIMBING IN THE SELKIRKS

       XI

       AFIELD IN JASPER

       XII

       OUT OF THE WORLD

       XIII

       THE MONARCH OF THE ROCKIES

       XIV

       ON THE MOOSE RIVER TRAIL

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       MAPS

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      The writer takes this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging his indebtedness to Mr. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of Dominion Parks, Col. Maynard Rogers, Superintendent of Jasper Park, and Mr. Arthur O. Wheeler, Director of the Alpine Club of Canada, for valued assistance in gathering material for this book; to Mr. Walter D. Wilcox, Sir James Outram, Dr. A. P. Coleman, Dr. J. W. A. Hickson, Rev. George Kinney, Dr. Charles E. Fay and Mr. P. D. McTavish, for permission to quote from their books and articles on the Rocky Mountains; and to Miss Mary M. Vaux, Mrs. Mary T. S. Schäffer, Mr. W. H. P. Lett, Mr. Arthur O. Wheeler, Mr. H. W. Craver, Rev. George Kinney, Mr. P. D. McTavish, Mr. James F. Porter, Mr. P. L. Tait, Mr. John Woodruff, Mr. A. Knechtel, Messrs. G. and W. Fear, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company, for permission to reproduce photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery and climbing and other incidents. Ottawa, Canada October, 1914

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