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Yoho Park, which adjoins Rocky Mountains 

 Park, the continental divide forming the bound- 

 ary between the two. is usually visited from 

 Field, B. C., though the railroad has other 

 stations in the park. Field nestles at the foot 

 of rugged Mount Stephen, and from it trails 

 and roads lead through forests of tall, straight 

 mountain firs to the justly named Emerald 

 and to tlir Yoho Valley, with its grace- 

 ful fall-. 



Battlefields National Park. This park con- 

 sists of two sections, one located in, and the 



: near. the city of Quebec. Thr- first, g 

 erally known :is the Plains of Abraham, includes 

 the famous hatt lefield where the British under 

 Wolf, won the victory over the French under 

 KM! in which made Canada a British pos- 

 session. The second is the battlefield of Saint 

 historic spots were purchased 

 jointly by the Dominion government and the 

 government of Quebec, and made a national 

 park at the T r< nn nary of the founding of 

 Quebec in 1908. C.H.H. 



Consult Mills'* r,,, M - National Parks; Muir's 

 Our \iitinntil Parks: Allen's A Guide to the Na- 

 I'urkN <>f A mrrica. 



Kelntnl Subject*. The following national 

 parks are described in special articles in these 

 vohn: 



Algonquin Park Yosemit- National Park 



i < '.i n yon of the Colorado 



intains Park 

 Yellowstone National I 'ark 



PAR'LEMENT, the name applied in France, 

 down to the French Revolution, to certain final 

 courts for the administration of justice, in 

 which the edicts of kings also were registered 

 before they became laws. Their historical im- 

 portance lies in their influence upon later ju- 

 diciary tribunals in France and throughout tho 

 world. They did much to summarize and unify 

 the common law, and in dispensing justx 

 notably free from prejudice and party influence. 

 The most important of these was the Parlomont 

 of Paris, although there were at least twelve 

 provincial parlements in leading cities. Not 

 directly connected with that of Paris, these 

 made common cause with it in its struggles 

 with the royal power. The Parlement of Paris 

 dated from the fourteenth century. The func- 

 tions of the parlements were chiefly judicial, 

 although they had wide political and adminis- 

 trative power. They were especially influential 

 in the reigns of Louis XI and Louis XIV. 

 Louis XV abolished the Parlement of Paris, 

 and constituted a new and somewhat different 

 body, but the former counselors were recalled 

 by Louis XVI. The Parlement of Paris and all 

 the local parlements were abolished by the Na- 

 tional Assembly in 1790; for although these 

 bodies had been in the years before the Revo- 

 lution ardent advocates of reform, they \v 

 unwilling as the nobles and the clergy to give 

 up any of their own privileges, which they had 

 for so long a time enjoyed. 



STOFVY OF PARLIAMENT 



.ARLIAMENT, poAr'ii nn )it. in general, any 

 deliberate r a-emMy ; but. specifically, the 8U- 

 : iti\e bi>d\ of th. Tinted Kingdom 



i and helalid Tin- : 

 also applied to (he |egi.-|at|\ IM|\ of th,' I )o- 



minion of Canada atid that of the Common- 

 wealth of .\U-tr..ll i. \IUMI1K all people m a 



tubd \ there was always a tnha I 



council th r .... u])i n 



the liil>, | united to tin n 



mir n to :nl\ iff 

 with the kintf. Tin.- \v:i- 



era led tribes of the Aimlo-Sa \ou< that < 

 Knglaud. The modern Parliament of the 

 I'mieil Kiimdom i- the d.-\ lopment of these 

 primitive councils. 



rly times there were three divisions of 

 ih. l:i\v-ni:iking power in F.nglaml the king. 

 ih. |oid> and the common-. In the lon>: 



.-ilion to the present Parliament there 

 d a complete- re\er-al of the relative 

 and import. mo- of these constituent 

 :ently. the klllt \Vllfl the >o 



.int-. he was advised, ho\\- 



