30 TRANSACTIONS. 1906-7. 



superable difficulties. Trails were cut through forests that seemed 

 absolutely impenetrable, loaded pack-horses were taken up 

 mountains that few but trained alpine cLmbers would attempt on 

 foot, and the international boundary has been marked from the 

 eastern slopes of the Rockies to the Pacific. Great as has been 

 the difficulties that were to be overcome, the modesty of the men 

 who had charge of the work has been such that few of them are 

 known to the general public even by name It was so when the 

 Northwest was first opened up, and there are few things of which 

 Canada has greater cause to be proud than of the pains-taking, 

 conscientious work of men whose only reward, for the most part, 

 has been the satisfaction of having taken part in a good work 

 well done. 



