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bered mountain slopes reach the shore of the lake. This much I noticed before attempting to navigate the lake. The canal enters it close to the left hand shore, and the right hand one seeming the most favorable for navigation in the strong wind...
2004-07-06
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feet or more above the water in a little clearing in the timber that borders that side. On the left the Kootenay Central Railway skirts the base of the benches already mentioned.
Columbia Lake and Windermere Lake are connected by a very winding...
2004-07-06
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Image Caption: COLUMBIA RIVER AT FAIRMONT
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across the valley, from one mountain slope to the other, and the River channel, like a thread of silver, meanders through it, with innumerable, what appeared to be small lakes...
2004-07-06
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low. After leaving Mud Lake the channel turned towards the Selkirks and seven miles from Columbia Lake I reached Windermere Lake and immediately encountered a strong head wind, but not as violent as the one contended with on the upper lake. Slow...
2004-07-06
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Windermere Lake. There is a bank there and I planned to remain over one day to get the money needed, and some necessary provisions.
The next morning after my arrival I walked to Invermere, crossing the Kootenay Central Railway on a bridge over a...
2004-07-06
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and they can be traced if carefully followed. His story is interestingly written, and is well worth perusal as an entertaining tale and as a comparison of his experiences and my own in the descent of the River.
Although Freeman lives in Pasadena,...
2004-07-06
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place. There I was introduced to the owner, Mr. R. Randolph Bruce, a wealthy mining man and a retired civil engineer, who showed me his fine collection of Navajo rugs, and beautiful flower garden. Miss E. N. Kettle was also introduced who served...
2004-07-06
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summers are not excessively warm; and considering the latitude and elevation—2,566 feet at the surface of the lake—as compared with the country east of the continental divide—and which is the case all over the \Vest—the winters are not...
2004-07-06
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Image Caption: ATHALMER, LOOKING NORTH
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had become warm, and the glaciers were melting, or "working," it was at a high stage, the banks being nowhere over two feet above its surface, and many of them flooded. The water was...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: BRIDGE ACROSS THE COLUMBIA AT SPILLAMACHEEN
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The next day the River and valley appeared about the same, except that evidences of logging and sawmill activities soon became manifest. At Parsons I came to a log...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND SELKIRKS BELOW LAKE WINDERMERE
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incline and fed to the saws within the mill. Should the logs become jammed at any time in the boom they are untangled by the use of peavies and pike poles....
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: LOG BOOM ABOVE GOLDEN
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of the Kicking Horse River, on the right, but there were no signs of a town. In about an hour I reached a railway station on the right hand side and landed to find out where I was. The...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: SAWMILL AT GOLDEN, KICKING HORSE CANON IN THE DISTANCE
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of only 1,500. It is mainly a lumber town and tourist resort, but is the agricultural center of 800,000 acres of land; with the possibilities of becoming a...
2004-07-07
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Image Caption: SWISS GUIDES' VILLAGE NEAR GOLDEN
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Golden is the northern terminus of the Kootenay Central Railway (a part of the Canadian Pacific system) which there connects with the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway,...
2004-07-07
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the line to the summit is now 2.2 per cent. Two 154-ton consolidation locomotives now haul, upgrade, a trainload of 980 tons weight.
The section of the Rocky Mountains where the Canadian Pacific Railway climbs to the summit is called "Rocky...
2004-07-07
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ing to run Surprise Rapids; and about his body being buried at Middle River near where it was found.
I was frequently told about the terrible Death Rapids and the many accidents that had occurred there to the early voyagers. How, but recently, a...
2004-07-07
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mouth. In his book The Canadian Rockies, he says:
"We had come to the head of Surprise Rapids, from Beavermouth, and our explorations had finally convinced us that it would be unsafe to run any part of the rapids with our small canoe—why not go...
2004-07-07
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our dripping clothes. Still there was a certain thrill of pleasure and pride in having done it, though we did not want to repeat the exploit. Presently, as we stood there, I on the raft and Frank on the stump, a disagreeable feeling came over us...
2004-07-07
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dashed to pieces against the rocks. They had not the prudence to take out either their blankets or small quantity of provisions, which were of course all lost. Here then the poor fellows found themselves deprived of all the necessaries of life,...
2004-07-07
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Boundary; and navigated it, from Grand Rapids to Snake River, in a 30-foot batteau with a crew of four Indians and a Canadian half-breed called Old Pierre. His published report gives his experience
at what is now known as Box Canon.
"Every...
2004-07-07
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act and re-act quickly in emergencies; and when in the rapids have their minds concentrated on the
work in hand, and have no time for shouting or analyzing emotions. They never do things for
spectacular effect, but avoid every possible danger....
2004-07-07
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CHAPTER XIV
FROM CANAL FLAT TO THE FERRY The Valley, Forests, Climate, Rainfall, Farms, Geology As there will be three days now with nothing to do but wait on the weather, I will now describe, in a general way, the valley of the Columbia...
2004-07-12
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The average annual precipitation in the vicinity of the upper Columbian lakes is 13 inches. This increases as the River is followed, and at Surprise Rapids, where a rain gauge is kept, it is 30 inches. No record was obtainable at the Ferry but the...
2004-07-12
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ranges, seem to be largely absent in the Canadian Rockies and the Selkirks. Their structure is mainly sedimentary, and they have apparently reached their present form by upthrust and erosion without the aid of volcanic action. Along the Upper...
2004-07-12
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makes the mile and a half portage. From thence he canoes down to the foot of Kinbasket Lake, and when the water recedes, to the Ferry. Between Kinbasket Lake and the Ferry the old Tete Jaune trail is in good condition.
In the Fall, when his...
2004-07-12
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