Chapter I: Preface

_The writer takes this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging his
indebtedness to Mr. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner of Dominion Parks,
Col. Maynard Rogers, Superintendent of Jasper Park, and Mr. Arthur
O. Wheeler, Director of the Alpine Club of Canada, for valued
assistance in gathering material for this book; to Mr. Walter D.
Wilcox, Sir James Outram, Dr. A. P. Coleman, Dr. J. W. A. Hickson,
Rev. George Kinney, Dr. Charles E. Fay and Mr. P. D. McTavish, for
permission to quote from their books and articles on the Rocky
Mountains; and to Miss Mary M. Vaux, Mrs. Mary T. S. Schaeffer, Mr.
W. H. P. Lett, Mr. Arthur O. Wheeler, Mr. H. W. Craver, Rev.
George Kinney, Mr. P. D. McTavish, Mr. James F. Porter, Mr. P. L.
Tait, Mr. John Woodruff, Mr. A. Knechtel, Messrs. G. and W. Fear,
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway Company, for permission to reproduce photographs of Rocky
Mountain scenery and climbing and other incidents._

OTTAWA, CANADA
October, 1914

CONTENTS

I PAGE

_The Lure of the Mountains_ 11

II

_The National Parks of Canada_ 29

III

_In and About Banff_ 49

IV

_The Canadian Matterhorn_ 65

V

_Incomparable Lake Louise_ 81

VI

_The Valley of the Yoho_ 93

VII

_Around the Illecillewaet_ 107

VIII

_The Caves of Nakimu_ 125

IX

_Mountain Climbing and Climbers_ 135

X

_Climbing in the Selkirks_ 153

XI

_Afield in Jasper_ 167

XII

_Out of the World_ 179

XIII

_The Monarch of the Rockies_ 197