Mary FitzGibbon

The Canada Pacific Railway, so frequently referred to in the following pages, is now almost an accomplished fact. It will, after traversing for over a thousand miles the great prairies of the Swan River and Saskatchewan territories, thread the Rocky Mountains and, running through British Columbia to Vancouver's Island, unite the Pacific with the Atlantic. Of the value of this line to the Dominion and the mother country there cannot be two opinions.

Falcon River - An Unlucky Supper - The Fate of our Fried Pork - A Weary Paddle - A Sundial in the Wilderness - A Gipsy Picnic - "Floating away" - The Dried Musk-rats - Falcon Lake - How can we land? - Mr. M - - "in again" - Surprised by Indians - How we dried our Clothes - The Last Night in Camp.