A Long
As
Empress Hotel, Victoria.
the measurentent
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Chain
of country. The Royal York, in journey in the good old coach-Toronto; the Palliser, in Calgary, ing days was measured by the ins and the Chateau Frontenac in where "good nccommodation" was Quebec, will all offer proof of what a fact as well as a precept, so can be done to make the public to-day, when iron-borsos course comfortable in Canada's cities, along steel highways, it is fitting while the Banff Springs. Hotel and that their stopping-places should be the Chateau Lake Louise, in the provided with first-class hotels.
Canadian Rockies, offer the same
Just such a policy has been standard of accommodation' in sur developed by the Canadian Pacific.roundings of unsurpassed beauty.
Railway, the largest hotel-company
in the Dominion of Canada, in its great chain of hotels from Atlantic
to Pacife, aligned to the high standard of efficiency and service characteristic of every branch, and department of the world's greatest privately-owned transportation sys
.tem.
Canada's
Serving Vancouver, gateway port to the Orient and the "commercial capital of British Columbia, the Hotel Vancouver takes up a prominent place in the social and business life of that. city. Fireproof in construction
and having 321 guest rooms with ample public and convention space,
Nor are these hostelries merely it is built on a commanding site. stopping-places for travellers; they" overlooking the straits of Georgia, are temporary homes for those who From the Roof "Garden that" tops would visit the great places of the hotel there is a magnificent Canada, be they seekers after rustic view of Vancouver and surround- beauties or men of affairs, whose ings.
duties take them to the great indas- trial and commercial centres of the great and growing Dominion.
Victoria, claimed to be the most British city on, the continent, is well served by its principal hotel, the Empress, situated in a beauti fat formal garden that fronts on the Inner Harbour of the city. Extensive ulterations and additions. just completed have brought a total accommodation for guests up to 560 rooms. During the winter two festivals, Yule, and Sea Music, are featured at the Empress, and a mid-winter gulf tournament brings
Victoria and Vancouver. The Empress, in Victoria, and the Vancouver, in Vancouver, give the voyager from the Orient his first glimpse of the shore-service of the company which operates the White Empresses of the Pacific. He will find them in every way as typical in hospitality, courtesy, and service, and a meet threshold for his entry into the vast system of railway which is to take him through the many visitors each
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Vancouver Hotel
February.
of Wondrous Hotels
There is a magnificent Vice-Regal XV., Louis XVI., Empire, and Art and theatrical districts of the city, suite, Tudor grill-room, a conser. Moderne suites. Services connected and adjacent to the Canadian vatory" with fountain and masses with the hotel are tennis-court, an Pacific Railway station, with which of exotic blooms, and the usual 18-hole golf course, placed in some it is connected by a passage-way. convention and public room space. of the most delightful scenery in The hotel has 405 guest rooms, of There are a number of fine, golf the world, two large swimming which 220 bave private baths, and courses within ensy reach of the poola, one cool and one filled with in addition has a number of private hotel, and ekse by is the Crystal
warm sulphur water, and every | suites as well as the luxurious Vice- Gardens, a glam-roofed amusement casino with spacious dancing floors, variety of mountain sport, hiking, Regal suits, while many of the carpet bowling and badminton boating, trail-riding, and nature ordinary guest-rooms may be ar- courts, and a fine swimming-pool
ranged into suites of conveniently with warmed sterilized sea-wator.
varying sizes. The Gold Roof, Oak Grill Room, Ballroom, and' Conven- "tion rooms, offer every Facility for
the converience of visitors,
study.
Calgary.
Within sight of the Rockies Calgary has the Pallizer Hotel, community centre where the stranger can observe the West in its most colourful aspect. The hotel is locut-
Lake Louise.
Chateau Lake Louise, forty miles on from Bant, in the heart of the Rockies, has 300 guest-rooms, and owes world-wide fame to the ia comparable beauty of the Lake where it is located."This view of the beautiful blue waters mirroringed at a point whence the alluring the snow-capped semi-circle of blue Outlines of the Rockies can be peaks at its base has been made seen in the distance above the fools famous in a thousand pictures and photographs, but to be realized it has to be seen. The hotel itself is framed in gardens of poppies, and some of the most lovely walks and
rides on the continent ure at its doors Two widely different aspects of beauty in its highest form are shown the visitor to Banff" and Lake Louise.
Banff Springs.
1 wholly different scenic setting, locked in the snow-capped
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of the city. It had five hundred rooms which, with four additional foors new completed, brings it to a total of 700 rooms. The ballroom
has been almost doubled in size with much more space on the ball room floor. Distinctive features are the Oval Drawing Room, the Sur
Farior, and the convention rooms.
Toronto..
Coming to Toronto there is the $16,000,000 Royal York Hotel with, when the present addition is com pleted, 1,156 rooms, and the largest hotel in the British Empire. It will also have 58 suites, and very hard. side convention and public rooms.
In the largest hotel in the British
Chateau Lake Louise,
Empire, the Royal York, located in Bungalow Camps in the Canadian the heart of the business section
*
of Toronto, itself one of the most important centres of the Dominion,
Lake Moraine, Valley of the Ten Feaks,
Regina.
the Canadian Pacific Railway has reached the highest development of its comprehensive programme of hotel service along its lines,
The Royal York is the last word
spaces. Montreal.
Rockies.
Three bungalow camps are situat- ed in Yoho National Park. Linked together as they are by good motor roads or trails, and supplemented. by lodges, tea and rest houses, they make one of the most delightful circle tours of the entire Rockies.
The Canadian Rockies, which interpose their giant barrier be- tween the prairies and the Pacific Coast, comprise the most wonder- ful mountain region in the world: Nearly seven hundred peaks of 6,000 feet or over in height-lovely moun- tain lakes, swift rivers, silent Eleven miles from Field Station primeval forests, glistening glaciers, by road.
* YOHO VALLEY BUNGALOW CAMP.
Thirteen miles from
extensive national parks, hundreds Wapta Camp by road. Also reach
of miles of roads and good trails, cd by trail or road from Emerald climbing, fishing, riding, hiking and Lake. Accommodation for 44. motoring--these are some of the attractions that they offer..
At seren poința in the Canadian.
WAPTA BUNGALOW CAMP.
Close to Hector Station.
Also
LAKE O'HARA BUNGALOW. CAMP.
rockies are, Bungalow Camps, mak reached by road from Field (eight ing a special appeal to the trail-miles), Lake Louise (eight miles), rider, the hiker and the climber. Afor Yoho Camp (13 miles). Accom- Bungalow Camp consists of a modation for 55. cluster of buildings of log or other wooden construction, the principal one being the dining-room and
Eight miles south of Hector social centre, the others individual Station, by trail. Also reached sleeping cabins of various sizes, from Lake Louise over. Abbot Pass, These Bungalow Camps-which are or by trail from Field Accommo- supplemented by many outlying dation for 34.." lodges, tea and rest houses con. veniently spaced-combine comfort, simplicity, and good food with moderate charges and always they have the background of, magnificent
nature.
KICKING HORSE CANYON TEA HOUSE.
Between Wapta Lake and Field- Meals only.
NATURAL DZIDGE THA HOUSE, Between Field and Emerald Laké Accommodation for 4..
SUMMIT LAKE KEST HOUSZ Between Yoho Valley and Eme rald Lake No meals.
TWIN FALLS LODGE.
In the Upper Yoho Valley Ac- commedation for 8.
"YUHO NATIONAL PARK, Yoho National Park, with an area of 476 square miles, lies just west of the Great Divide on the western slopes of the Rocky Moun tains. It is a ragint of charin and winsome beauty, of giant mountains and primeval foresta, of rushing rivers and sapphire-like lakes. Its principal river is the Kicking Horse,
ABBOT PASH ALPINE HUT. will, the Ottertail and Yoho as maj Between Lake O'Hara and Lake tributaries: its chief lakes are Louise. Sleeping accommodation Emerald, Wapta, McArthur, 0- | for 20—no meala.. Hara and Sherbrooke. The Yobo Valley (with its great glacier, Twin Falls and Takakkaw Falls), Emerald Lako, Burgess,. Pasa, Lake" O'Hara and Lake McArthur. aro
Regina, capital of Saskatchewan, has the Saskatchewan Hotel, an imposing structure of limestone, occupying a central situation in the city just south of beautiful Victoria in accommodation for the travelling amongst the chief scenic features. Park. Its windows command strik public and has, in addition, excel- ing views of the parks and tree-lent convention halls and public lîned boulevards of the city and of the spreading prairies beyond. With its modern equipment, fine cuisine, and high standard of ser- vice, it is a most delightful, stop ping-place for those desiring to rest for a time in the heart of Canada's great West. The Saskat The great ports, both cast" and en contains 271 guest-rooms, west have not been forgotten, for each with private bath and twin Victoria and Vancouver both have beds. It holds at the disposal of excellent Canadian Pacific hotels, guests a number beautifully-decorat while in Quebec, former capital of
Montreal. has the Placo Viger Hotel, with 115 rooms, and is again of the French Chateau (ype of architecture
Queboo.
Rockies, stands the Banff Springs. Hotel, glorious in its semblance to an Old Scotch baronial castle, but not one-whit less comfortable than
its sister hotelries in the great cities of Canada. Its situation is
among the most lovely in the world,
1,09% feet above aon-level, and com-
manding magnificent views of the mourtain-encircled Valley of the Bow. Construction is fire-proof throughout. The giant frame-work of the hotel is steel, and the massive exterior walls raising 14 storica in height are of native rock trimmed with cut Tyndall stone, whose soft d
ed special suites, The Spanish Tea Lower Canada; the Chateau Fron colour-effect lendo striking beauty
Room and Spanish Lounge are tenae, built on the site of the old to the imposing structure. Tho
popular features, and there is a French Governor's residence, stands hotel has 600 guest rooms, all with
kumaname khandaime Gonzantions bath, and there are 38. luxurious
prout mice, to two of which & alike in arrangement and decora tive treatment. Among them are the Vice-Regal suite, Swiss, Italian, Renaissance and Anglo suites with conveniently located within any rooms, with convention and ball- Jacobean, Tudor, Georgian, Louis distance of the business, shopping, I rooms.
Winnipeg, Reaching Winnipeg the Railway has the Royal Alexandra Hotel,
The palatial Chateau Frontenac, magnificently located above the St. Lawrence has 20 suites and 678
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Bann Springs Hotel,