Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1916 — CANADIAN CROPS EXCELLENT [ARTICLE]

CANADIAN CROPS EXCELLENT

Returning Tourists Speak Wefl of Their Treatment in - Canada. The Canadian Government, having made extensive preparations during the last few years to Impart to the National Park system a degree of comfort and pleasure to the visitor, combining the best efforts of man with the very best gifts of creation, has now the satisfaction of seeing an appreciation of the efforts they have made. Tourists returning from a trip over the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern railways speak enthusiastically of the beauties that are revealed as these roads enter and pass through the mountains. The Government has spent enormous sums of money laying out roads, and developing easy means of access to glacier, hill, valley, lake and Btream. For what purpose? That the wonders that Canada possesses in its natural parks may become more easily accessible and afterward talked about, that a tourist travel through Canada would result Tourist travel means business, and it is,, business that Canada seeks. To make it even more easy for this travel, the Government has taken pains to make every step of the tourist’s entry Into Canada one that will give the very least degree of trouble. On crossing the border, there is only the ordinary examination of baggage, and the only precaution is that in the case of foreign aliens, and even In their case there is no difficulty when the officials are satisfied that they are not attempting entry as enemies. Although officials of the Government have taken every means to bring to the attention of the tourist and others that no difficulty could be placed In the way of their admission, there still remained doubt in the minds of some. Only the other day the Government took action again, and authorized the statement that no measures taken for recruiting the forces either have been or will be applied to any persons who are not ordinarily resident in the Dominion. Nor Is it the Intention to ask for volunteers except from among British subjects, resident In Canada. Moreover, the Military Service Act, under which conscription is applied in Great Britain, affects only persons “ordinarily resident in Great Britain.” Americans and British subjects resident In the United States who desire to visit Canada will find no more trouble at the border than they have experienced in the past, and upon arriving they will be made as welcome aa_ever. War conditions of any kind will pot Inconvenience or Interfere with them.

The immigration authorities suggest that, as a precaution against Inconvenience, naturalized Americans whose country of origin was one of those at war with the British empire, should provide themselves with their certificates of naturalization. Now that It is impossible to visH Europe, ‘he planning of your vacation trip through Canada is one to give consideration to. The Government has taken an active Interest in its National Parks in the heart of the Rocky mountains. These can be reached by any of the lines of railways, and the officials at these parks have been advised to render every attention to the visiting tourists, who in addition to seeing the most wonderful scenery in the world —nothing grander—nothing better —have excellent wagon and motor roads, taking them into the utter re. cesses of what was at one time considered practically Inaccessible. In addition to this the tourist will not be Inactive to the practical possibilities that will be before him as h« passes 6ver the great plains of tb« Western Provinces. The immensr wheat fields, bounded by the horizon, no matter how far you travel. The wide pasture lands, giving home and food to thousands of heads of horse* and cattle. The future of a country that he before only heard of but knew so little about, will be revealed to him in the most wonderful panorama, and Imprinted in the lens of his brain in such a way that he will bring back with him the story of the richness ol Agricultural Western Canada. And he will also have had an enjoyabl* outing.—Advertisement