Canada Calls the Tourist

CANADA CALLS THE TOURIST By Frank C. Steele. Why not choose Canada for your motor trip this season? Those who are scanning road maps and guide books could not do better than to call a halt and decide on a trip into the northern Dominion where they will be on foreign soil, yet among brothers. If it happens to be a set of jaded nerves that are crying out for help, there could be no better cure for them than the Canadian Rockies with their wealth of trout streams, lakes, glaciers, Indian trails, camp grounds and golf links. There are hundreds of former Utah and Idaho people in Southern Alberta who would welcome with true Canadian hospitality their relatives and friends from "home;" for Utah is still home to many of these pioneers of the northern stakes of the Church. In addition to the scenic attractions of a Canadian motor trip, such a tour would prove a get-together party of the finest possible type, for there is an ingrained urge in westerners to keep green that fraternal bond welded by common ideals and common institutions. Alberta is not far away. Your map will prove it. You could hop off in an aeroplane at Cardston in the morning and eat lunch in Salt Lake with stopovers enroute. On Mothers' Day the president of an Alberta stake called up his mother, living in Salt Lake, on long distance telephone. The transmission was perfect and the connection was established in less than five minutes. Good roads will be found with attractive landscapes the whole distance. If the tourist includes Yellowstone Park in his itinerary the charm of the Canadian trip is immeasurably enhanced. Approaching the Canadian border from the south, motorists may enter Canada through one of two ports. If the Sunshine Trail through the Northern Montana oil fields is followed, the port of entry is Coutts. If the more westerly route through Glacier National Park is chosen, the line is crossed 15 miles south of Cardston. Custom regulations are simple, and the officers courteous. American visitors will catch their first glimpse of the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack flapping side by side at the border. On the Canadian side the ladies of the party will not look in vain for the Mounted Police, for they will be there, sleek, upstanding fellows with broad hats and red coats. They still carry guns, but seldom use them, and they are far different from the im- personations so lamely given in the "movies." They are not "shieks of the north" but rather clean, courageous, simple chaps of good birth and thorough training, always willing to lend a helping had or give information. Waterton Lakes, National Park, will be visited. No one should miss this lovely playground tucked away in the southwest corner of

958 IMPROVEMENT ERA IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Alberta, a twin part to Glacier, so extensively advertised by the Great Northern Railway, and rightly so. The Dominion government has developed Waterton Park the last few years under its vigorous national parks policy, and today it is one of the finest summer playgrounds in the Northwest. Its mountain scenery is gorgeous, especially in the even-

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960 IMPROVEMENT ERA ing when the sun plays fitfully on the peaks and bulwarks of snow- streaked rock. Waterfalls, glaciers, gorges and rivers give varieLy to the picture while well-kept roads invite motoring into more remote sections of this scenic wonderland. Fishing abounds, also golf, tennis, boating and swimming. Leaving Waterton the motorist usually proceeds east through a charming mixed farming country to Cardston, the home of the Great White Temple, a poem in marble and granite. In quiet dignity and beauty it stands overlooking the prosperous little city built on the site dedicated by the original "Mormon" band in 1887 as a gathering place for the Saints. It can be seen for miles, a rare monument in the midst of an empire of wheat fields and grazing lands, awe-inspir- ing in its isolation from the established lanes of communication east and west. Its grounds are beautiful. A Canadian trip would not be complete without a visit to "Banff the Beautiful," and to reach Banff the motorist traverses the great hard- wheat belt of Alberta through the ciy of Lethbrigde, center of the Lethbridge stake, and on to Calgary, the largest city of the Province, thence west again to the Rockies. At Lethbridge Gait Gardens should be seen, for this is a park heralded for its artistic beauty from coast to coast. Banff has everything. It is a score of Switzerlands in one, its camp grounds are famous, its government-operated bathing pools un- surpassed anywhere, its endless stretches of mountain scenery, the crowning glory of the Canadian Rockies. From Banff the motorist passes Lake Louise with its $3,000,000 C. P. R. hotel — Chatteau Lake Louise — thence west into the heart of the renowned Windermere country with its glorious broad highway chiseled out of the solid rock which, with its southern extension carries the American tourist back in- to the Land of the Stars and Stripes. Lethbridge, Canada. Sunshine and Shadows I saw a man go down the street this morning; His face was set in such a gloomy frown! His eyes were downward cast; his voice not cheerful, When once he spoke — and yet the little town Seemed quite serene, contented; The air was fresh and balmy, and the dew Lay on the grass like sprinkled tints of silver, And birds were piping all the morning through. Some direful thing had upset his composure, And changed the world from sunshine to a shade — And yet for me 'twas brimming o'er with pleasure; With joy in God for beauty that he made. That is the way with life's whole undertaking: While some are steeped in tears and tragic trials, There's still a sunrise somewhere, and some people Whose lives are filled with joyous, happy smiles. Huntington, Utah. LAMONT JOHNSON.