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life and return thoroughly rejuvenated.
We were fortunate that our visit timed with the moon, for as we sat on the verandah in the evening listening to a pleasant orchestra, and watched the moonbeams reflected on the snow capped mountains, and again casting shafts of beautiful light over the lake, it was indeed enchantment.
Only that we were threatened with a railway strike, that might prevent our getting through, we would have been tempted to remain longer. Quite regretfully we left next morning, and two more days and nights travelling always through magnificent and gorgeous scenery, we reached Vancouver.
On reporting to the Australian and Canadian Shipping Office, we found that the Niagara would be delayed and viewed with consternation having to put in at least a week in that strange and apparently uninteresting city.
We put up at the wonderful Vancouver Hotel, another of the C.P.R.'s creations, conducted on the most lavish lines at a corresponding high tariff.
I felt prepared to submit to the inevitable and put in time, when another of those happenings, for which it is difficult to account changed the whole of my outlook.
An interviewer from the 'Provence' waited on me and through her article I became known to the 'Daughters of the Empire', a patriotic society whose President, or rather Regent, called and invited me to speak at a Garden Party she was holding. From that time I had not a lonely moment for several ladies sent invitations, and cars were always at the door for me. One lady and her daughter became my especial friends, and as the time for the boats sailing was still further postponed, I spent all the time I could in their company.
Ron's Captain friend had by this time arrived, and he and a fellow townsman were included in our excursions, that became daily.
We were entertained at the different country clubs, that are quite a feature of American and Canadian life, motored to many beauty spots, chief among them perhaps the Capilano Canyon, where we had