974 GEOLOGISCnE NEUIGKF.ITEN. 



(3. C u n a d i ii u P a c- i fi e E a i 1 w a y (C r o w s n e s t B r a n c h), 



Time 15 days. Toronto to Vancouver; aud ö days rcturning Vancouver 

 to Toronto or Montreal. 



Thosc participating in tliis excursion will travel over the main liue of 

 the Canadian Pacific Piailway directly to Medicine Hat in the Province of 

 Alberta. From this point the journey is by way of the Crowsnest branch line 

 passing through the mining centres of Lethbridge. Férni 1. Nelson. Eossland. 

 and Greonwood to Midvay. At IMidway the party will be divided, somé 

 returning to Nelson and Eevelstoke on the main line by way of the 

 Arrow Laki-s The remainder of the party will proceed to Vancouver, pas- 

 sing through a mining region of which the principal places are Hedley* 

 Princeton. Tulameen and Nicola. Betweeu Lethbridge and Férnie sections of 

 the Cretaceous coal measures will be examined. At Frank the party will be 

 given an opportunity of viewing a notable rock slide which occurred in 1903. 

 West of the Kootenay Eiver sections of the pre-Cambrian rocks of the Purcell 

 Eange will be examined, alsó the intrusive contact of the granodiorite at 

 Nelson. The arrangements. moreover. include vi,sits to the gold-copper deposits 

 of Eossland ; the gold-quartz veins of Sheep Creek ; the copper mines of 

 Phoenix and Greenwood ; the silver-lead veins of the Slocan region ; and the 

 Nickel Plate gold mine at Hedley. In additiou. the Ohgocene coal basins at 

 Princeton and Nicola, as well as the diamond-bearing peridotite at Tulameen, 

 will be visited. 



CS. Canadian Northern E a i 1 w a y. 



Time 16 days. Toronto to Vancouver; and 5 days returning Vancouver 

 to Toronto or Montreal. 



It is arranged that this excursion will cross Lakes Húron and Superior 

 to Port Arthur. Thenee the party will proceed by the Canadian Northern 

 Eailway across the northern part of the Great Plains to the foothils of the 

 Eoeky Mountains. Between Port Arthur and Winnipeg an examination will 

 be made of the Atikokan irón rangé. A visit will be paid to Steeproek Laké, 

 where fossils have recently been disoovered in rocks of pre-Cambriau age. At 

 Eainy Laké the relations of the Couchiching and Keewatin may be well ob- 

 served, alsó examples of post-glacial faulting. Li the Province of Manitoba 

 the fossiliferous Ordovician and Devonian limestones will be seen at a num- 

 ber of localities, while at Pine Eiver outcrops of Cretaceous maris and limes- 

 tones will be visited. The Eed Deer Eiver, in Alberta, a locality rich in 

 dinosaurian remaius. will alsó be examined. From Calgary to Vancouver tlie 

 party will travel over the main line of the Canadian Pacific Eailway. 



' ,'•'}. Ci r a n d T r u u k Pacific E a i 1 w a y. 



Time 15 days. Toronto to Vancouver ; 5 days returning Vancouver to 

 Toronto or Montreal. 



