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main range. Pictures of the animal life of the region and panoramic views 
from a number of the highest summits were shown. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. The Relation vf Local Mechanical Transportation to the Structure 
of Modern Cities. By G. E. Hooxer. 
The urbanisation of population is the characteristic of this as dis- 
tinguished from all other historic periods. _ 
In response to this movement a new science has arisen directed to the 
higher physical organisation of cities with a view to their efficiency, health, 
and beauty. 4 gfe 
The thesis of this paper is that mechanical transportation 1s the most 
fundamental and determining factor in modern city structure, and should, 
in this city-planning movement, be recognised as such and dealt with accord- 
ingly on reasonably idealistic lines. 
Expanded in statement this thesis is :— 
I.—That mechanical transportation is fundamental to the existence of 
the modern city, has absorbed long-distance and in considerable part local 
urban carriage, and is destined to extend completely over the latter. 
II.—That in the maladjustment thus presented between a traditional city 
framework and a revolutionary method of transport, the latter has been 
exercising a profound and largely unguided influence upon city structure, 
resulting in disordered cities and deficient transport. 
III.—That the time has come when the organisation of cities in recogni- 
tion of mechanical transportation as their central and basic factor should 
be definitely undertaken, and the following should be the main guiding 
principles, viz. :— : 
(a) That all the freight and passenger carrying lines and appurtenances 
of a given city should be combined into one orderly and properly distributed 
network, in connection with which there should be developed a system for the 
collection and delivery throughout the city of all freight by mechanical 
* power. 
(b) That passenger facilities should be developed harmoniously on the 
basis of continuous cross-city routes. 
(c) That the primary elements of a great city’s framework should accord- 
ingly be certain cross-town axial railway avenues and their branches, 
designed to serve as the trunk factors in a unified and exclusive system of 
mechanical circulation for both passengers and goods, on which system the 
balance of the city framework should be articulated. 
(d) That these factors of transport should, save in exceptional cases, be 
elaborated in the open air, with differentiated speeds, properly constructed 
ways, and quieted apparatus, implying healthy occupation for employés, 
convenience and comfort for passengers, and the minimum injury, where 
injury is unavoidable, to territory traversed. 
IV.—That the modern ideal of a cleanly, convenient, efficient, and widely 
dispersed city can thus be realised. 
2. Yellowhead Pass and Mount Robson, the Highest Point in the 
Canadian Rockies. By Dr. A. P. Coteman. 
The Yellowhead Pass is well known for its easy gradients through the 
Rocky Mountains, its highest point reaching only 3,700 feet above sea-level, 
