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while drying ourselves the sponges froze as stiff as hoards. After break¬ 
fast we had sallied forth, crossing the deep, dark, swift Belly River 
on three logs lashed together, then, traversing a swamp (where I 
found a fine skull of a Caribou), made our way to the hot sulphur 
springs, enjoying a warm bath therein, though the vegetation around 
was glistening with hoar frost. Now Banff boasts a large hotel and 
is a tourists’ centre. In parts of the prairie the extension of settle¬ 
ment was considerable, in other parts the change was not so marked. 
At Winnipeg, in 1884, we had seen several teams ploughing 
Main St., to reduce the stiff clay mud to a moderately even surface 
with a view to paving it. This had in the interval been fairly 
successfully accomplished, but it was very sad to find that the City 
Bathers had pulled down the one historic building of Winnipeg— 
old Fort Garry—rather than suffer the continuation of Main St. to 
deviate a few yards from the straight line! 
At Winnipeg Station a young porter came up to me and said: 
“ I expect you knew my grandmother.” I did not wish to appear 
surprised, but it was natural to ask, “ Who may your grandmother 
have been ? ” To this the porter readily answered, “ Mrs. Pinneger, 
pew opener of Holy Trinity Church, West Hill.” It appears that he 
had read the name upon my luggage and made a good shot at my 
identity. As a result I had to deliver a message to the Yicar of 
Wandsworth, as w r ell as to the Bank Manager. 
Rat Postage, Ontario West. 
June 13th, 1904. 
This spot, once a busy gold-mining centre, lies almost equidistant 
between the two oceans. A stroll on the shores of the Lake of the 
Woods gave me another glimpse of the Canadian butterfly fauna. 
Several species seen at North Bend, more than a thousand miles to 
the westward, were met with again here, to wit: Ganoris oleracea , 
both sexes; Colias chrysotheme , a small male and two females ; and 
Everes comyntas , one; as well as Phyciodes tharos . This last, which 
might almost have been called abundant, is fond of settling with half- 
expanded wings in moist, grassy places in woods. In addition to 
these, several species that were new acquaintances turned up. Of 
Euchloe creusa, Dbl., & H., I saw but one. Two Blues were in 
abundance, Cyaniris ladon , Cram., f. lucia, Kirby (being the northern 
spring form), and Plebems {Gupido) eouperi, Grote & R. The 
company was completed by the sylvanus-like Skipper, Atrytone 
hobomoh, Harr., of which several were seen settling on mud where 
