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by rail aud steamboat to Victoria, British Columbia. Crossing the Strait of Greorgia to 

 New "Westminster, they ascended the Fraser to Yale, and iiroceediug along the line of 

 railway, examining the works under coustructiou, they reached Eagle pass. Thence 

 crossing the Selkirk and Kooky Mountains ranges on the route, already described as 

 followed by Mr. Van Home the previous mouth, Mr. Schreiber reached the end of the 

 track at the " divide " between the Kicking Horse River and Bow River valleys ; 

 continuing his journey eastward by railway, he returned to Ottawa on September 29ih. 



(16) Visif of (he British Association to the Pioclc/j Mounlains, 1884. 



In August, 1884, the meeting of the British Association M^as held in Montreal ; on the 

 termination of the session the majority of the members who had crossed the Atlantic 

 visited Toronto and Niagara. Of the number, from eighty to a hundred, including some 

 ladies, accepted an in\'itatiou to extend their tour to the Rocky Mountaiiis. 



They left Toronto on September 6th, and by steamboat passed through Lakes 

 Huron and Superior to Port Arthur, where they took the train for the west. The rails 

 were then laid a few miles over the Rocky Mountain summit, so the travellers proceeded 

 to the end of the track and remained some few hours in the neighbourhood. They 

 actually passed the period of their halt in British Columbia — the crest of the Rocky 

 Mountains being the eastern boundary of that province. 



On their return they arrived at Regina on Sunday the 14th. Divine worship was 

 held on this day, the Bishop of Ontario aud the Rev. Harry Jones, a member of the British 

 Association from England, officiating. The visitors remained some hours at Grleichen, 

 where they had an opportunity of meeting a large number of Blackfeet Indians. They 

 also made a halt at Winnipeg, where a reception was given them at Grovernment House. 

 They arrived at Toronto on September 19th, after an absence of thirteen days, expressing 

 great satisfaction with the trip. The party included a number of distinguished men. 

 Among them was Dr. Cheadle, who must have contrasted the ease and comfort with which 

 the journey had been made, with his painful experience in crossing the mountains with 

 Lord Milton twenty-one years earlier. 



(IT) Journey of Sir Charles Tupper, 1885. 



Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner in London, arrived in Canada on August 

 7th, 1885. After remaining three weeks in the eastern provinces, he left by the Northern 

 Pacific Railway for Portland, Oregon, and thence went to Victoria, British Columbia. 

 His party consisted of Mr. Collingwood Schreiber, Mr. Stewart Tupper, the late Mr. 

 Andrew Robertson, of Montreal, and Mr. Townshend, M.P. After visiting Nanaimo, they 

 crossed to New "Westminster aud Yale. On October 3rd they left Yale by the recently 

 constructed railway aud by train reached the end of the track in the Eagle pass where 

 there remained a gap of forty-seven miles unfinished. Proceeding over the gap on 

 horseback, they met, on September 4th, Lord Lansdowne passing in the opposite direc- 

 tion. On gaining the track laid from the eastward, they took the train for "Winnipeg, 

 and by way of Chicago reached Ottawa on October 20th. 



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