Enterprise—Something About the Men Who Ruled—My Fidus Achates—Captains Courageous—The Active Men of To-Day—And Interesting Facts About the C.P.R. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS George H. Ham (From a recent photograph) Some Early Photographs of George H. Ham The New and the Old C.P.R. Stations in Winnipeg How Our Early Settlers Arrived in Winnipeg Main Street, Winnipeg Portage Avenue, Winnipeg The Duke and Duchess of Connaught with Princess Patricia The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and Daughters the Ladies Cavendish Lord Minto at His Lodge, Kootenay Some Early Trading Posts of the Hudson’s Bay Company At the San Francisco Fair Waterfront, Toronto, Eighty Years Ago Fish-Market, Toronto, Eighty Years Ago Toronto To-Day Rough Riders of the Plains Winter Uniforms of R.N.W.M.P. An Indian Policeman Indian Camp Brother Andre The Oratory of St. Joseph Lord Strathcona Lord Mount Stephen Sir William Van Horne Baron Shaughnessy, K.C.V.O. B. W. Beatty, K.C. I. G. Ogden D. McNichol R.B. Angus A Map Showing Position of Passenger and Freight Trains on the Canadian Pacific Main Lines at 6 P.M. November 1, 1920 Souvenir of the Driving of the Last Spike on the C.P.R. First C.P.R. Locomotive The First Locomotive in Toronto CHAPTER I Seventy Years Ago—My Early Days in Kingston and Whitby—Boyhood Friends—Unspared Rods—Better Spellers Then than Now—A Cub Reporter—Other Jobs I Didn’t Fill—Failure to Become a Merchant Prince—Put Off a First Train It has been said by facetious friends that I have several birthplaces. However that may be, Trenton, Ontario, is the first place where I saw light, on August 23rd, 1847, and on the spot where I was born has been erected a touching memorial in the shape of a fine hotel, which was an intimation, if we believe in fate or predestination, that my life should be largely spent in such places of public resort. After events confirmed this idea. Hotels have been largely my abiding place, from London, England, to San Francisco, and from the city of Mexico and Merida in Yucatan as far north as Edmonton.