Excerpt from Two Grand Summer Tours to Alaska: The Outward Journey Over the Canadian Pacific Railway, With Visits to Montreal, Winnipeg, the Banff Hot Springs (in the Canadian National Parks), The Glaciers of the Selkirks in British Columbia, Vancouver and Victoria

Two tours of fifty days each, to include the magnificent scenic regions lying along the Canadian Pacific Railway, a voyage through the romantic inland waters of British Columbia to Alaska, a comprehensive round of the points of interest in that famed land of mountains and glaciers, a series of visits to the cities of Puget Sound and Oregon, an ascent of the noble Columbia River, and a return eastward over the Northern Pacific Railroad, with a divergence through that land of wonders, the Yel lowstone National Park, will constitute one of our chief excursion enterprises for 1891. These wonderfully picturesque routes were brought into an excursion programme for the first time last year, forming a panorama of matchless scenic interest. Volumes might be written regarding the great features of scenery that serve to make a journey over the western end of the Canadian Pacific Railway such a remarkable experience, and many volumes have been writtenndescriptive of the Pacific Coast country and our northern border-land, through which we are to return. These pages can merely give hint of the marvels to be seen on such a journey, and of the grander scenes in Alaska, the chief objective point of our expedition. The voyage from Victoria to Alaska and return will occupy about twelve days, and will be made in one of the finest steamers of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's fleet, the Queen, Captain James Carroll. All the famous scenic points in Southern Alaska, which have made the Alaska trip so famous, will be visited, including Fort Wrangel, Juneau, Doug las Island, Sitka, and the great Muir Glacier, on Glacier Bay. There will be time for landing and sight-seeing at all the chief points of interest, and everywhere tourists will have unsurpassed opportunities for scanning the wonderful scenery of our northern most possessions, and for studying the quaint and-primitive native life. The entire route from Puget Sound to the farthest northern point reached, is lined with scenes of wonderful and awe-inspiring character - mountains of great height, with fathomless depths at their very feet; cascades, which seem to tumble from the sky itself; densely wooded shores, whose solitudes have never yet been invaded by man; and vast fields of snow and ice, which glow in the sunlight like plains of gold and silver. Thousands of mountain peaks are seen that no man has ever visited, and that are as yet even unnamed. In Alaska, great glaciers, many fold larger than the grandest ice fields of Switzerland, flow down to the sea, mingling with the floods of the ocean, and breaking off in huge masses of fantastical shapes. In no part of the world is there so much wild grandeur encompassed in a voyage of equal duration.

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