Produced by Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration] BERG LAKE AND TUMBLING GLACIER _R. C. W. Lett_ AMONG THE CANADIAN ALPS BY LAWRENCE J. BURPEE F.R.G.S. WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR FORTY-FIVE REPRODUCTIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND FIVE MAPS NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN :: MCMXIV COPYRIGHT, 1914 BY JOHN LANE COMPANY THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A 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. Schäffer, 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