The Canadian Pacific Route
| 1st day | Leave New York or Boston by day train for Montreal. Close connections are made there for the West, so that travelers wishing to see something of Montreal ought to leave New York or Boston the day before. |
| 2d day | Arrive in the morning at North Bay. |
| 3d day | Arrive in the morning at Fort William, on the northwest shore of Lake Superior, and at Winnipeg by night |
| 4th day | Arrive in the morning at Moose Jaw. Travelers who wish to travel from New York via Chicago and St. Paul, instead of via Montreal, connect here. No time, however, is gained or lost by either route chosen for the journey to this point |
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Banff Hot Springs (about ninety-six hours by rail from New York). Here are the Canadian Park headquarters, situated on the Bow River, where its banks broaden out into a spacious valley flanked by Mounts Rundle, Cascade and Sulphur. The park has an area of 5,732 square miles, which includes the newly discovered Yoho Valley |
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Laggan (hour and a half by rail from Banff). Station for visiting the three Lakes in the Clouds ( Lake Louise, Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes), Paradise Valley and the Valley of the Ten Peaks. |
| 10th day | Field (hour and a half by rail from Laggan). Station for the ascent of Mount Stephen (10,000 feet), also the point to visit the newly discovered Yoho Valley |
| 11th day | Glacier (five hours by rail from Field). Sta- tion for Mount Sir Donald (10,808 feet), named after Lord Strathcona; also the Illecillewaet Glacier. There are also some newly discovered caves in the vicinity, worth vis |
| 12th day | Vancouver (nineteen hours from Glacier) . The port for Japan and Australia. Travelers for San Francisco need not go to Vancouver, but change at Mission Junction for Seattle. |
| 13th day | Portland, Ore. (eight hours by rail from Seattle). The metropolis of the North Pacific slope, pleasantly situated on the Columbia River, and commanding a fine view of Mount Hood. |
| 14th day 15th |
San Francisco (thirty-six hours by rail from Portland). Travelers should leave Portland by night, so as to enjoy the magnificent scenery of Mount Shasta the whole of the next day. This is one of the finest railroad rides in the United States. |
The Same Route, San Francisco to New York. |
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| 1st day 2d |
Leave San Francisco via the Shasta Route for Portland. By leaving San Francisco at night the magnificent scenery of Mount Shasta can be enjoyed the whole of the next day. |
| 3d day | Portland, Ore. (thirty-six hours by rail from San Francisco). The attractive capital of the North Pacific slope. |
| 4th day | Seattle, Wash, (eight hours by rail from Portland) , the chief port for steamers to Alaska, and an enterprising and rapidly growing city |
| 5th day 6th |
Glacier, twenty-six hours from Seattle, and nineteen hours from Vancouver, at which port passengers would land, coming from Australia, China and Japan by the Canadian Pacific Steam- ship Line. Glacier is the station for Mount Sir Donald (10,808 feet), also for the Illecillewaet Glacier. |
| 7th day | Field (five hours by rail from Glacier) . Station for Mount Stephen (10,000 feet), also the point from which to visit the newly discovered Yoho Valley. |
| 8th day | Laggan (hour and a half by rail from Field). Station for the three Lakes in the Clouds, Paradise Valley and the Valley of the Ten Peaks. |
| 9th day 10th |
Banff Hot Springs (hour and a half by rail from Laggan). Headquarters of Canadian National Park, which covers an area of 5,732 square miles, the largest national park in the world. |
| 11th day | Moose Jaw. Arrive in the morning. Travelers wishing to proceed to New York via Chicago change here. |
| 12th day | Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba. Arrive in the morning. Winnipeg, now a city of importance and the center of a great wheat-growing country, was a few years since merely a fur- trading station (in a limitless wilderness) of the Hudson Bay Company. |
| 13th day |
Fort Williams. Arrive in the morning. |
| 14th day 15th |
Montreal. Arrive at night and leave for New York, where we arrive in the morning. |
