GEOLOGISCHE NEUIGKEITEX 973 



AI'2. S o u t li w e íí t f r n ii t a r i o. Tiiue 3 dii ys. 



This exciirsion. wliicli is of especial interest to palíeontologists. provides 

 for thc stiuly aud colledion of Siluriaii and Devoniau fossils. The region 

 embra<'i'd lies to the west of Toronto bctween Lakes Jluron and Ontario. 



11) E X c- u r s i o u s D u r i n g the M e e t i n g. 



The arrangements provide for short esciu'sions to various looalities in 

 the imiuediato neighbourhood of Toronto. Arnong others tiie foUowing places 

 and ohjects of interest will be visited. 



Niagara Falls. 



Glacial and Interglacial drpuslts m Hu- lu-ighhourhood of tlie Don Val- 

 ley and at Scarboro Heights. 



The PalíEOZoic formations at Hamilton. 



The sandstone quarries of tlie Credit Eiver. 



The morainic deposits north of Toronto. 



The Laurentian of the Muskoka region. 



The natural gas and oU fields of Ontario. 



The highly fossiliforous PalíBozoic strata at Streetsville. 



The elay deposits and ^^orks ncar Toronto. 



'.') Ex c u r s i o n s A f tor t h e il e e t i u g. 



Starting from Toronto there will he four trauscontiuental excursions 

 as follows : 



C'7. C a n a d i a n P a c i li c R a i 1 w a y (M a i n L i n e). 



Time Ib days, Toronto lo Vancouver, and .j days returning Vancouver 

 to Toronto or Montreal. 



Ou this excursion the party will travel over the main liue of tlie Caua- 

 dian Pacific Eailway, across the Great Plains and through the Cordilleran 

 Mountain Eauges to the Pacific ücean. 



The participants in this excursion wül see the nickel and copjjer depo- 

 sits of Sudbury ; tlie Animikie and Keeweenawan formations near Port Arthur ; 

 tlie Laurentian and Keewatin rocks of the Laké of the Woods ; the Cretaceous 

 and Tcrtiary systems of tlie Great Plains, with the gas wells at Mediciue Hat 

 and the coal mines at Banff, Alberta. Arrangements will alsó hi- made for 

 visits to Laké Louise and the Victoria Ghicier at Laggan in the Eocky 

 Moimtains; the Yoho Valley ; Mount Stephen at FiekI and the great neve at 

 Glacier. Brilisli Columbia. The mouutains of the Helkirk Eange, the C'oast 

 Eange batholith, and the canon of the Fraser Eiver are the attractivo features 

 of the final stage of the journey to Vancouver. 



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