Around the World 
BY THE 
Canadian Pacific Route 
ON THE PRAIRIES 
Leaving Winnipeg, the train passes through a number of small towns 
and thriving settlements— a few years ago all uncultivated prairie— for 
four hundred miles, when what are known as “ The Plains ” begin. 
At Moose Jaw tourists from the Middle States passing through St. Paul 
and Minneapolis and travelling by the “ Soo-Pacific Route join the 
main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. From a little west of this 
point to Calgary, near the Rocky Mountains, about another four hundred 
miles, and stretching away south to the boundary of the United States 
and for some distance north of the railway line, is the ranching country 
of the great western territory of Canada, not so many years ago the roam- 
ing grounds of vast herds of buffalo and the hunting grounds of the Cree 
and Blackfoot Indians. 
SIDE TRIPS 
At several points— Portage-la-Prairie, Brandon, Regina, Medicine Hat 
and Calgary — the tourist is enabled to journey north or »juth of the 
main line on one or other of the br.anch lines whose junctions are at these 
points. A stop-over of a few days at Regina enables him to take another 
train and visit the prosperous settlement of Prince Albert, on the north 
branch of the Saskatchewan, and other points of a district once the great 
highway of the Hudson^s Bay Company’s business. From Medicine Hat 
the Crowsruest Pa^ line leads off past the Lethbridge collieries and 
Macleod the headquarters of the ranching industry in Southern Alberta 
through the Crowsnest Pass of the Rocky Mountains, forming a short 
route to the principal mining centres of East and West Kootenay, in the 
great mineral belt of Southerh British Columbia. A fast service by this 
route has been inaugurated, connecting with the e.xcellent steamboat 
system of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, whose magnificent 
fleet of steamers operates on the principal waters of this region. At 
Calgary another diversion may be made and the train taken for Edmon- 
ton, formerly the chief emporium of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 
Saskatchewan country, now a growing town, the centre of one of the 
most fertile mixed farming districts of the West. From Calgary the 
tourist may also take train fojr the.^outh, and. .visit the .great ranchin, 
districts and the coal mines along the Crowsnest Pass line, whicii are 
making Southern Alberta famous. 
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 
Leaving Calgary, the principal city of the plains, the Rocky Moun- 
tains are plainly in sight, and in about three hours’ time the train enWa 
“ The Gap,” which is the beginning of five hundred miles of the wildest 
and most picturesque scenery on the continent, that has been descril/^d 
by Whymper, the conqueror of the Matterhorn, as “fifty or sixty 
Switzerlands rolled into one,” and whose scenic magnificence was termrfl 
“matchless” by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. It is not the intention 
to attempt in the limited space of this publication any description of even 
the chief points in the several ranges of mountains through which the 
tourist passes between the prairie and the sea. Tne rugged, bare, fan- 
tastic monsters of the Rocky Mountains, of which the Three Sisters of 
Canmore, Cathedral Mtn., Mount Steplxen, at the summit, and the Otter- 
tail Range are the chief features, form marvellous pictures of grandeur 
and beauty. 
AT BANFF 
But the tourist should stop over at Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, a 
station eighteen miles west of “ The Gap.” Here is an excellent hotel 
built by the railway company at some hot sulphur springs of rare curative 
properties, and for many miles around is the National Park, a picturesque 
district set apart by the Dominion Government and preserved for the 
pleasure of tourists and sportsmen. To live like a sybarite where, until 
recently, the footsteps of the wandering Indian alone disturbed the solitude 
of the mountains, and to ride and drive with comfort amidst the grandest 
mountain scenery in America, is at the option of the guest at the Banff 
Hotel. Naturally enough, under these circumstances, the hotel during the 
season is always well occupied with pleasant family parties and leisurely 
globe-trotters. A short distance west of Banff is Laggan station, at which 
the tourist stops to visit Lake Louise, the neighboring glaciers and the 
other “ Lakes in the Clouds,” where provision is also made for the 
traveller’s comfort in picturesque chalets. No written description can 
adequately convey their beauty to the mind’s-ere of the reader. Even 
more beautiful is the lately discovered Yoho Valley, vithin easy reach of 
Field station and chalet. Surrounded by some of the loftiest peaks of the 
northern Rockies, and the birthplace of the North Fork Kicking Horse 
River, this is one of the g^randest upland parks in the chain. Its most 
prominent attraction is doubtless the great Takakkaw Fall, 1,200 feet 
high, fully the equal of anything in the Yosemite. At all these points 
experienced Swiss guides are stationed during the tourist season, who will 
accompany parties to interesting places in each locality. The Canadian 
Pacific Railway publishes guide-books to these resorts, which may be had 
without charge on application to any of the Company’s agents. 
THE SELKIRK RANGE 
Up to the mountains the tourist has breakfasted, lunched and dined 
in a sumptuous dining car attached to the train, but in the mountains he 
takes his meals, and excellent ones they are, at the charming little chalet 
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hotels which the railway company has establisheo * The “ Mount Stephen 
House ” at Field Station, from whicli the newv^ discovered wonderful 
glaciers, lofty cataracts and winsome lakes of the Rockies can be visited 
at leisure; the “ Glacier House,” under the shadow of that highest peak 
of the Selkirks, “ Sir Donald,” and at the foot of the Great Glacier, that 
marvellous river of ice, and within easy distance of several others; and 
the “ Fraser Canon House ” at North Bend Station, where the fearsome 
canons of the Fraser River may be explored. The wonderfully rich gold 
and silver regions of the Kootenay can also be easily reached from Revel- 
stoke, a station on the main line on the western edge of the Selkirk 
Range, by branch line to the upper Arrow Lake, which with the Columbia 
River forms a delightful water route to the various raining centres. The 
Canadian Pacific’s elegantly furnished and. spoea> steamers ply on these 
waters. The famed Cariboo gold fields are reached by stage from Ash- 
croft. Tlie mountains being passed, the tourist soon reaches Vancouver 
on Burrard Inlet, and, if the steamer is not about to sail immediately, 
goes to the Hotel Vancouver, owned and operated by the Canadian Pacific 
Railway Company, noted as one of the best in America for those qualities 
which go to make the sum of a traveller’s comfort. But, concerning 
these and many other things on the transcontinental journey, are they not 
written in the book of “The New Highway to the Orient,” which may be 
obtained gratuitously from any of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s 
agents ? Before starting on his trip the tourist should also procure from 
one of the company’s agents a copy of a charmingly written little guide 
called “ Westward to the Far East,” which will tell him just what he 
requires to know about Japan and China, and how those interesting 
countries may be reached, and as a means of briefly, but accurately, 
recording his journey across the continent he will find a copy of the 
Company’s Annotated Time Table invaluable. These publications will cost 
him nothing. Steamers run daily across the straits to Victoria, on Van- 
couver Island, tlie capital of the province, and a city well worth a visit. 
All transpacific steamers stop at the harbor-mouth of Victoria, enabling 
passengers to embark. From Vancouver the routes croM the Pacific 
Biverge, that of the' Canadian Pacific’s Empress steamship line to Japan 
and China being nearly due west, while that of the Canadian-Australian 
line lies southwest to Honolulu, H.I., Suva, Fiji, Brisbane, and thence to 
Sydney. Around-the-World passengers by these two routes would meet ^ 
again at Colombo, Ceylon. Those intending to visit both Japan and , 
Australia would meet at Sydney. 
We will first follow the Empress route via Japan and China as far as 
Colombo. 
ON THE PACIFIC 
There is a charm in sailing the Pacific to which everyone yields. The 
Summer Sea, as Lord Dufferin calls it, has its own pleasant advantages,! 
and it is redolent of the most romantic maritime history that has been, 
written. In person you are on board a triumph of the shipbuilding art, 
with surroundings that fastidiousness itself is compelled to praise ; in 
spirit you are with Drake and Frobisher and the daring buccaneers of 
good Queen Bess’ time, who robbed the Spanish galleons in the sacred 
name and with the same cheerful religioxis zeal with which the Spaniards 
had plundered the Incas and other Indians of South America. A sail in 
sight on the Pacific suggests a galleon escaping ; a second one, a buc- 
caneer in chase. The steamers traversing the Pacific Ocean, the twin-screw 
steamers, Empress of India, Empress of China and Empress of Japan and 
the Tartar and Athenian are superior in speed, safety and luxury to any- 
thing that has ever sailed the P.icific, and have given a new charm to this 
voyage. They take a specified northern course between Vancouver and 
Yokohama, which is the shortest transpacific route by about three hundred 
miles, and which also usually enjoys the most pleasant weather. On such 
an ocean in such a ship it is impossible not to enjoy the trip from Van- 
couver to Japan. And there is much of novelty ; the ways of the Atlantic 
liners are not those of the Pacific. There is an Eastern air in the latter 
which will be new to many. The sei-vants are not called “ stewards,” 
but “boys”; they are not black-jacketed Europeans, but white-frocked 
Celestials. There is no luncheon on board, but there is luxurious “tiffin,” 
and so on. 
YOKOHAMA 
In about ten days after leaving the shores of British Columbia the 
steamship is in Japanese waters, the first port reached being Yokohama. 
Unless in a very great hurry indeed, the tourist will here leave the 
steamer and take a little time to see Japan. There is so much to be seen* 
and so much of what is to be seen depends on the time of year, that loi 
detailed information a tourist must either turn to the book already 
mentioned, “ Westward to the Far East,” or he can obtain a “ Murray’s 
Guide to Japan ** or “ Japan as We Saw It ’* on the train, and with 
one or other of these can regulate his daily programme with the greatest 
economy of time and money and the maximum amount of sight-seeing. 
Japan has lately become the desired goal of all who travel for pleasure, 
and who, jaded with the Old World and the American Continent, desire 
to see a phase of Eastern civilization unlike that to b.e met elsewlwre. The 
descriptions of it written by Arnold, Griffis, Oliphant and other men of 
literary reputation have fired the desire of the accustomed traveller to 
visit the land of the cherry blossom and the chrysanthemum, and none 
have regrretted the trip. A country which, during the present generation, 
was a sealed book to foreigners, with which they could trade only across 
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