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police are in charge who, to the credit of the Indians them- 
selves, have very little difficulty in perfect maintaining control. 
In Calgarry itself, where forty years ago there was a miscel- 
laneous collection of wooden huts and Indian tents, there is 
to-day a vast and growing railway centre. Forty miles on 
the east side of Banff the traveller notices the first peaks 
of the Rockies, viz., The Three Sisters. 
Mr. Leigh spoke at some length of Banff and its neigh- 
bourhood, which, thanks to the enterprise of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway, has become since the opening of the line 
in 1887, a health resort of no mean importance. A magni- 
ficent hotel has been built amid some of the most charming 
scenery it is possible to conceive and a warm sulphur swimming 
bath has been made by conveying the medicinal waters of 
Sulphur Mountain to the hotel in huge barrel-like pipes. 
Banff is a centre for almost every kind of sport and in the 
locality is the National Park of Canada (5,000 square miles), 
containing huge game preserves and herds of buffalo. 
From Banff to Vancouver, the traveller passes over 600 
miles of mountain country, crossing in succession after the 
ridge of the Rockies, the Selkirk Range, the Gold Range, and 
the Cascade Range. Various pictures were thrown upon 
the screen showing the engineering difficulties which con- 
fronted the promoters of the railway. Mr. Leigh described 
and illustrated the method of constructing both the wooden 
trestle bridge and the newer steel trestle bridge which has 
now superseded the early type. He mentioned, too, the 
various ways in which the engineers have dealt with the 
difficulty of the avalanche and snowdrift. Here and there 
right through the most mountainous regious, the railway 
passes under snowsheds so designed as to carry the avalanche 
over the railway, thus leaving the line beneath quite free. 
These sheds are built of lengths of timber, square in section 
and about a foot thick. The snowploughs in use are not 
of the usual type, but consist of huge revolving disc-like 
fans which cut their way through the vast drifts. 
The Rockies are crossed by the Kicking Horse Pass, and 
at Field, a town by Kicking Horse River, amid beautiful 
scenery, there are important engine sheds and several tourist 
hotels. It is from here that a wonderful drive, passing 
between lines of giant trees, leads to the famous Emerald 
Lake. The lecturer described the dainty “ Glacier Lily ” 
which is found in great abundance in this region ; it has 
stem and leaves very like the tulip, a flower shaped like 
the single hyacinth and a bright daffodil colour. 
