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PART 16.
The next morning Mrs. and Miss Falkner having joined me, we then left for over two hours journey by train to Lake Louise, reaching the railway station about eleven o'clock on a perfect Sunday morning with the sun shining on the snow of the mountain tops, and causing little riverlets to trickle down the sides. A scenic car took us to most wonderous scenery, practically every turn bringing a fresh surprise and beauty. Climbing for half an hour we came to the Chalet at the Lake, and reams could not convey its charms.
People had talked of it, and we had seen much that we thought incomparable but that gem tucked away in the exclusiveness of the mountains, was beyond compare. As if to guard it, the mountains clothed in snow, rose sentinel like, and the shadows made its opalescent waters even more varied.
The Canadian Pacific Railway known throughout the length and breadth of Canada as the C.P.R. have with wonderful enterprise built hotels in these spots, and they have in commercialising added rather to their beauty for the architectural design of each is suited to the respective situation. The Chalet with its wide verandahs and gabled windows looked out on to a lawn that sloped to the water's edge, and flowering ice-land poppies from the palest cream to the deepest mandarin grow as a fringe.
After lunch we drove to the "Seven Sisters" mountain peaks so called because of their similarity and nearness. That too, was a most exhilarating experience with our four horse team. At the base is also a beautiful lake that is a favourite fishing resort. Two enterprising English women have erected a shack, and in the tourist season do good business in providing light luncheons and teas. They also let out tents, and a great number of city tired people get back to the primitive