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undrinkable to those unused to it. Here some 

 of the men were to leave for a trip to a range 

 of mountains thirty miles away, to hunt cari- 

 bou, while four or five of the men were to stay 

 near the village to hunt wild geese, ducks and 

 prairie chickens. 



My younger son and the writer were to be 

 among the "stay-at-homes." After the cari- 

 bou hunters had mounted their horses and 

 faded away in the distance, we were surprised 

 to find that the C. P. R. had detached a freight 

 engine from a train at Crane Lake, twenty 

 miles away, filled the tank of the engine with 

 fresh water, and sent it to us. Half of its 

 precious load of delicious water was given to 

 us and the other half was needed to furnish 

 steam to take the engine back to its train. 

 This courtesy was repeated twice during our 

 stay, and so far as I know this expensive kind- 

 ness was done entirely without solicitation on 

 our part, and it only goes to show what a pa- 

 ternal care — if we may use the word — the 

 company takes of its patrons. 



Port McNichol is planned upon such a 

 scale as to provide room and conveniences for 

 many years to come for the greatest possible 

 increase in the traffic passing through the 

 Great Lakes. 



