HUDSON'S BAY CO., DEPARTMENTAL STORE. COST $1,500,000
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

Hotel Rates.

(Photo by Progress Photo Co., Calgary

The following is a list of the hotels and their rates for the Grand Union Meeting:

Northern Railway, and the Canadian Pa- Calgary and Northwestern Canada. cific Railway giving complete information Calgary, that great city of North Westas to conditions for securing reduced fares ern Canada, stands as a marvel of progto conventions can be secured by writing ress, enterprise and sturdy development. Brother B. G. Tower, Secretary Arrange- During the brief period of twenty-one

the largest city between Winnipeg and kings, the rise of dynasties and the fall the coast, has a population of over 80,000. of empires, its chronicles may lack, but It is a shining example of successful mu- they are none the less inspiring because nicipal ownership, for the city controls they trace the evolution of civilized comand operates all its public utilities, in- munities from primeval blankness, and cluding street railway, electric light and testify how the unconquerable courage power works, and water-supply system. of men has wrested these far-stretching The extensive western car shops of the plains from the unknown, charted and C. P. R., the erection of which cost nearly explored them, bridged them with railthree million dollars, and which are the ways, created wide productive agriculsecond largest repair shops in the world, tural areas, and reared great cities where are now in operation here, and will event- formerly stood only stockaded trading ually employ nearly 5,000 men. The city posts.

ALBERTA, CANADA

has many splendid business blocks, ranging in cost from $100,000 to $500,000; there are 36 public schools, representing an investment of over $3,000,000, over 460 retail stores, 190 wholesale establish

"Behind the squaw's light birch canoe
The steamer rocks and raves,

And city lots are staked for sale
Above old Indian graves."

We call them bygone days; but only

ments, 70 manufacturing concerns, and 30 for comparison. A middle-aged man's life

banks.

would easily span the years that have

The stamping ground, a comparatively elapsed since the first old-timer came into few years ago, of vast and uncounted the West. If the figures of that period herds of buffalo-the happy home today could be marshalled into procession, they of such is the progress of Western Canada ive than the costume-pageants that have within the memory of many men still liv- been so popular as pageants of progress. Only the unimaginative, only those First, the Indian, in his gay trappings who cannot grasp the romance of com- and war-paint; then the missionaries, who monplace things, can assert that a new tried to win the Indian from the arts of Country has no history.

ing.

Battles and warfare by putting into his hands the

chief instrument of the art of peace, the unexplored land between the head of Lake ploughshare-brave old Father Lacombe, Superior and the Pacific Coast, and about the French-Canadian Catholic missionary, the same time came the first old-timerswho came west amongst the Crees and the pioneers, the homesteaders, the adthe Blackfeet while the nineteenth cen- venturous land seekers of the early tury was still in the fifties, or John Mac- eighties, with prairie schooner or Red Dougall, the pioneer Methodist, who left River wagon (the peculiarity of which civilization and its comforts for work on was that it contained not one piece of the far prairies not so many years later; metal, but was built entirely of wood), then the Hudson's Bay Company traders, containing all their household goods, with descendants of that famous "Company of the pots and pans clattering from the Adventurers of England" who received sides, and with their few colts and calves their charter from the hands of Charles II running on behind. A hard life they had of England, and traded into the Hudson's at first, with their distance from every

Bay and the hinterland beyond before the seventeenth century was ended, and who have traded ever since; these built their little forts, and armed them and defended them with palisades, and bartered with the friendly Indians and reasoned with the hostile Indians. Then came the Royal North-West Mounted Police, those scarlet-coated riders of the plains who carried law and respect for the law into lawless districts and made the letters "R. N. W. M. P." the symbol and certainty of justice in the two-thousand mile stretch of

thing that made life worth living, the obstacles with which they had to contend, the difficulties they encountered in making a living, and the terrors they were still in from attack by red men or, as indeed happened, the rising of half-breeds. A new era opened with the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway about this time. Fur-traders and voyageurs had filtered in by twos and threes all the time, and there came the inevitable accompaniments of frontier-life-the saloon-keeper, the whisky-smuggler, the camp hanger