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Lake Mildred, Jasper Park, Alberta, along the Grand Irunk Pacific Railway. 



been clothed in the soft velvety 

 greens of the pine, the spruce and 

 the fir, instead of presenting- dreary- 

 barrens filled with g-aunt white 

 skeletons that raise their scarred 

 limbs to heaven in useless protest, 

 and moan and screech like lost souls 

 as the fierce winter winds whistle 

 through them. 



The Beauty of the Trees. 

 It is only of recent years that the 

 public have become alive to the 

 magnificent asset we possess in our 

 mountain scenic regions. When the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway was locat- 

 ed in its present route across the 

 various ranges of the Rockies the 

 principal factor considered was the 

 shortest possible alignment, and it 

 was not until we were so taught by 

 visitors from the older world that 

 we understood that this popular 

 transcontinental route opened up 

 one of the world's most magnificent 

 recreation grounds. 



Lovers of Nature were quick to 

 realize the wonderful scenic features 



presented by our cloud-capped 

 peaks, wide snowfields, crystal ice 

 falls, jewel-like lakes and rushing 

 torrents, leaping in white cascades 

 and sheer falls down tremendous 

 rock precipices to the primeval for- 

 est depths in the valleys below. They 

 have continued to grow in popular- 

 ity until the palatial summer hotels 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 turn away hundreds of visitors from 

 lack of accommodation. 



Later, the Grand Trunk Pacific 

 and the Canadian Northern Contin- 

 ental lines have opened up even 

 wider areas of, if possible, still more 

 wonderful alpine scenery in the 

 vicinity of the northern passes of the 



mam range. 



The supreme effect of all this 

 grand climax of alpine scenery de- 

 pends for the contrasts of its colour- 

 ing and the soft violet atmosphere 

 that enshrouds it and enhances its 

 beauty upon the magnificent setting 

 of pine and fir forests that fill the 

 valleys, and for which the Canadian 

 Rockies are renowned the world 



