Industrially Edmonton has made rapid 

 strides in the last decade and now has a wide 

 variety of manufactures supplying most of the 

 needs of the large territory it serves. It is 

 ideally situated for industrial expansion being 

 surrounded by a great wealth of coal and 

 having already twenty-two coal mines in and 

 about the city. It is no speculative matter to 

 estimate to what industrial heights Edmonton 

 will reach in keeping pace with the North- 

 land's certain and rapid development. 



Edmonton is already an important centre 

 considered from the standpoint of the province 

 or the Dominion. The trade of all that 

 region east of the Rocky Mountains to the 

 Saskatchewan boundary, and north to the 

 Arctic is done by or through the city. Sub- 

 stantial as trade already is, the enormous 

 resources of the Northland are as yet largely 

 unknown and unexplored. Each month re- 

 veals new hidden wonders in this great land. 

 Edmonton, to arrive at the full status her 

 situation and facilities deserve, has been await- 

 ing the more adequate development of the Last 

 West of the Peace River and MacKenzie basin. 

 The promise of this now assured, sensational 

 progress may be expected of the Alberta capi- 

 tal. 



Canada's National Parks 



The act providing for the establishment of 

 Dominion parks gives as the reason of their 

 creation "to be maintained and made use of as 

 public parks and pleasure grounds for the 

 benefits and advantages and enjoyment of the 

 people of Canada". The crowd of tourists 

 from other lands, however, which reach them 

 in ever increasing numbers each year by train 

 and automobile, indicates a utilization and 

 appreciation much wider than in the concep- 

 tion of the originators of the scheme and their 

 annual presence is a glowing tribute to the 

 wonders and beauties of Canadian scenery. 



The Canadian National Parks, where prim- 

 itive nature harmoniously blends with the 

 modern comfort and luxury of civilization, 

 have become the playgrounds of a continent 

 and will without doubt remain so, an eloquent 

 acknowledgment to a nation's forethought in 

 preserving these areas as sanctuaries for birds 

 and beasts and havens of rest and holiday for 

 man. 



A striking illustration of the popularity of 

 the Canadian Rockies was given last summer 

 when, under the auspices of the Brooklyn 

 Eagle, a party made a park to park tour 

 through many United States parks including 

 the Canadian Rocky Mountains Park. At the 

 conclusion of the tour a vote was taken as to 

 the respective merits of the various parks and 



hotels visited with the result that out of eighty- 

 six votes, Banff-and Lake Louise on the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, received first place with 

 twenty-four, and among the hotels, Banff 

 Springs led with twenty-one. 



National parks situated all over the Dom- 

 inion comprise a total area of 8,948 square 

 miles. They are the properties of the people 

 of Canada, a region where they are free to 

 make holiday in the realization that their play- 

 ground is their own, a haven where the wild 

 things of the forests soon learn they are secure 

 from the molestation of trap and gun, and can 

 live in peaceful harmony with man. 



The Rocky Mountain Park. 



The most extensive and grandly pictur- 

 esque of these parks are situated in the extreme 

 west featuring the rugged grandeur of the Roc- 

 ky Mountains. Here Nature reigns supreme, 

 the veriest tinge of civilization touching her 

 domain. The Rocky Mountains park which 

 takes in parts of the provinces of Alberta and 

 British Columbia has an area of 2,791 square 

 miles and incorporates such spots of interna- 

 tional renown as Banff and Lake Louise. Jas- 

 per Park, in the wild ruggedness of the more 

 Northerly Rockies, is the largest of all the 

 Canadian parks with 4,400 square miles of area. 

 Other parks of the west, closely adhering to 

 their primitive state and unchanged in the 

 wild charm of their surroundings, are Yoho 

 560 square miles, Glacier Park 468 square 

 miles, Watertown Lake Park 423 square miles, 

 and Buffalo Park 159 square miles. 



In Saskatchewan the Antelope Reserve 

 near Maple Creek has been reserved as a park 

 and contains twenty square miles. In the 

 province of Ontario twelve islands in the St. 

 Lawrence of 140 acres, have been preserved to 

 the nation from industrial or agricultural des- 

 ecration and Pt. Pelee, with 3,869 acres, is 

 maintained in perpetuity as a bird sanctuary. 

 In the eastern provinces the national parks 

 have a more historic flavor as Fort Howe, 

 historic park at St. John in New Brunswick, 

 and Fort Anne, historic park at Annapolis 

 Royal in Nova Scotia. British Columbia on 

 the Pacific Coast has reserved to its people 

 two provincial parks, one Strathcona Park on 

 Vancouver Island containing 800 square miles 

 and Mount Robson Park in the Tete Jeune 

 Cache area of 650 square miles. 



The National Forest Reserves. 



In addition to these national playgrounds 

 there are the national forest reserves which 

 add considerably to Canada's holiday and 

 camping grounds. Permanent settlement is 

 not permitted on these grounds though leases 

 may be secured for summer resorts, etc. The 

 cutting of timber is permitted to allow the re- 



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