Canadian National Park

a pleasure ground of the Canadian Northwest. It lies in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, on the border line between Alberta and British Columbia. It is one of the great parks of the world. The area is 5,732 square miles--3,668,480 acres. The present park was formed by the union of two parks, the Yoho and the Rocky Mountain Park. The Canadian Pacific traverses the park from east to west. Banff may be regarded as the railroad and hotel center. As the park is 70 miles in width and 100 miles in length, no one pretends to be familiar with all the gorges, glaciers, caverns, lakes, hot springs, and waterfalls. The park is full of game, but guns are forbidden. Bears, moose, elk, antelope, red deer, mountain sheep, goats, wolves, even coyotes, and many fur bearing animals abound. The rivers and lakes are full of the grayling, the mountain trout, the rainbow trout, and the salmon trout. Animals from every direction, seeming to know that they are safe within the park, resort thither for protection. A herd of buffalo is domesticated in one of the valleys. There is probably no other place in the world where good hotels are so near to utter wildness.