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Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



816 m. Langdon — Altitude 3,289 ft. (1002 m.). Im- 



1 ,313 km. portant towns have grown up along the railway 

 as the result of the irrigation of this section by 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway company. 



836 m. Calgary — Altitude 3,425 ft. (1044 m.). This 



1,345 km. fast growing city is becoming a railway centre 



and manufacturing town. Tertiary rocks of the 



Paskapoo series, outcrop in this vicinity and 



are quarried for building stone. 



859 m. Cochrane — Altitude 3,748 ft. (1142 m.). 



1,382 km. Here the railway line follows closely the valley 

 of Bow river, which cuts through the sandstones 

 of the Paskapoo series. At Cochrane the beds 

 dip east and form part of the great syncline 

 occupied by Tertiary rocks. The underlying 

 coal-bearing beds are brought up to the surface 

 and at Radnor a seam in the Belly River forma- 

 tion is being mined. Many flexures and folds 

 occur between this point and the mountains. 



890 m. Kananaskis — Altitude 4,218 ft. (1285 m.). 



1 ,432 km. 



In the hills immediately north of this station, 

 limestones of the top of the Cambrian have been 

 overthrust on Cretaceous of the Belly River 

 formation. 



893 m. Exshaw — Altitude 4,247 ft. (1294 m.). 



1,437 km. Cement manufacturing is the principal indus- 

 try at this point and the plant is one of the 

 largest in Canada. Limestone is quarried from 

 the mountain side, but shale is now being 

 brought from near Laggan. 



903 m. Canmore — Altitude 4,283 ft. (1305 m.). 



1 ,453 km. This town is situated on the western edge of one 

 of the wide fault blocks from which a great 

 section of Lower Cretaceous has been eroded 

 in the formation of the valley. Southward 

 along the mountain front remnants of these 



