GEOLOOISCHE NEUIGKEITEN. 975 



Proceeding by wa^' of the Gnind Trunk and tlie Temiskaming and 

 "Northern Ontario railways, throiigh tlie mining camps of Cobalt and Porcupinu 

 +lii' party will arrive at Cochrane and will thence travel over the new trans- 

 •contineutal line of the Grand Truuk PacÜR' Kailway. This line of raihvay 

 passes north of Lakes Abitibi and Nipigon and south of Lac Seul to Winnipeg, 

 and continues west pást Saskatoon and Ednionton and through tlie Yellow 

 Hrad l'ass of the Eocky Monutains. 



Hince the eonstruction of the raihvay to the Pacific Coast will not be 

 completed, the party will roturn to Edmontou and a\í11 thence journey by 

 ■way of Calgai'y to Vancouver. 



Between Cochrane and Winnipeg outcrops of pre-Cambrian rocks, as 

 well as Glacial and Post-glacial deposits. will be examined at certain typical 

 loealities. 



Fossil-bearing Cambro-Silurian limestones in the vicinity of Winnipeg ; 

 the coal measiires at Entwhistle on the Pembina Kiver, west of Edmouton 

 the coal beds at Carlsbad. and fossil-bearing Devono-Carboniferous limestones 

 in the same locality will be among the interesting features of this excursion. 

 It may alsó be noted that Mount Eobson. the highest peak in the Canadian 

 Roeky Mountains. is observable from the railway. Arrangements, moreover, 

 may be made to descend the Frascr River to Fort George, thence to Ashcroft 

 liy automobilé and on to Vancouver over the line of the Canadian Pacific 

 Eailway. 



C5. Lakes Erié and Húron. Time 14 Days. 



The excursion through Lakes Ontario, Erié and Húron will include a 

 visit to Niagara Falls. An opportunity alsó will be given for the collection 

 and study of fossils from the ünandaga forma tion at Port Colborne and the 

 TJtica formation at CoUingwood. In addition a visit will he made to Manitoulin 

 Tsland where there are noteworthy sections of Ordovician and Silurian strata 

 with charaeteristic fossils. At Pelee Island the quarries with their Devonian 

 -fossils will alsó be inspected. 



The Archean formations and their depeudeiit topography. as well as the 

 very pronouneed, unconformable contaet between these old crystalines and 

 tlie Palifozoic, are well esemplified in the Georgián Bay distriet, which is 

 includcd in the arrangements. Walpole Island, on which there is an Indián 

 settlement. will alsó be visited. This excursion gives an excellent opportunity 

 for stratigraphic. glacial and physiographic studies. 



C6. S u d b u r y - C o b a 1 1 - P o r c u ]i i u e, Ontario. Time 1 "2 days. 



The arrangements for this excursion are similar in all respects to those 

 t^numerated under the classification «A3», savé only that in this instance the 

 starting point will be Toronto instead of Montreal. If necessarj'. provision 

 will be made for yct another excursion to the mining regions of Northern 

 •Ontario. 



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