Excursion C 2.

TRANSCONTINENTAL, VIA CANADIAN PACIFIC, GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC, TEMISKAMING AND NORTHERN ONTARIO, AND GRAND TRUNK RAILWAYS.

Leaders: R. W. BROCK, J. McEvoy.

Guides: J. A. ALLAN, A. G. BURROWS, C. CAMSELL, C. H. CLAPP,

W. H. COLLINS, H. C. COOKE, W. J. DICK, D. B. DOWLING, C. W.
DRYSDALE, O. S. FINNIE, J. C. GWILLIM, O. E. LEROY, G. G. S.
LINDSEY, A. MACLEAN, W. F. ROBERTSON, B. ROSE, S. J. SCHO-
FIELD, J. S. STEWART, J. T. STIRLING, W. J. SUTTON, A. W. G.
WILSON.

Secretary: H. E. T. HAULTAIN.

Assistant Secretary: H. FRÉCHETTE.

Members: E. M. ANDERSON, Scotland; JOHN ASHWORTH, England;
Sir AUGUSTINE BAKER, Ireland; H. E. BOEKE, Germany; O. B.
BÖGGILD, Denmark; L. H. BORGSTRÖM, Finland; A. H. BROOKS,
U.S.A.; E. W. BYRDE, England; C. T. CARTWRIGHT, Canada;
J. CHARBONNIER, Canada; A. A. COLE, Canada; J. CUMMINGS,
Canada; L. E. T. DAHLBLOM, Sweden; W. J. DICK, Canada; R. G.
DRINNAN, Canada; Rev. P. DUPAIGNE, Canada; G. L. DUNN,
Scotland; B. E. FERNOW, Canada; Mrs. FERNOW, Canada; O. S.
FINNIE, Canada; S. McL. GARDNER, Scotland; P. GLEIS, U.S.A.;
B. GÜRICH, Germany; Mrs. H. E. T. HAULTAIN, Canada; H. M.
HAUSEN, Russia; BERNARD HOBSON, England; T. C. HOPKINS,
U.S.A.; R. E. HORE, Canada; F. R. VAN HORN, U.S.A.; J. P.
HOWLEY, Newfoundland; P. F. HUBRECHT, Netherlands India;
MARK HURLL, Scotland; J. MCG. HURLL, Scotland; K. INOUYE,
Japan; H. G. IVES, U.S.A.; J. T. B. IVES, U.S.A.; G. JARVIS,
Canada; J. KEELE, Canada; D. E. KEELEY, Canada; C. KIDO,
Manchuria; G. KENNEDY, Canada; P. KUKUK, Germany; H. M.
LUTTMAN-JOHNSON, England; C. LEBLING, U.S.A.; E. MAIER,
Chili; S. G. MARTIUS, Germany; J. G. MCMILLAN, Canada; J.
McEvoy, Canada; Mrs. McEvoy, Canada; B. MCNEILL, England;
Mrs. MCNEILL, England; D. S. MCINTOSH, Canada; E. T. MELLOR,
South Africa; B. L. MILLER, U.S.A.; J. MOREL, Belgium; R. B.
MURRAY, England; J. L. PARKER, Canada; F. B. PECK, U.S.A.;
Mrs. PECK, U.S.A.; S. POWERS, U.S.A.; W. R. ROGERS, Canada;
Mrs. ROGERS, Canada; G. SAUGRAIN, France; J. SHAW, Canada;
J. T. SINGEWALD, U.S.A.; C. SPRUYT, Belgium; T. DE SURZYCKI,
Russia; B. L. THORNE, Canada; F. T. THWAITES, U.S.A.; J. B.
TYRRELL, Canada; H. B. WALLIS, England; A. G. B. WILBRAHAM,

England; T. F. W. WOLFF, Germany; B. WEIGAND, Germany;
M. E. WILSON, Canada; C. W. WRIGHT, Italy; Mrs. WRIGHT,
Italy; R. ZUBER, Austria.

The Honorable LOUIS CODERRE, Federal Minister of Mines, and his party, consisting of Madame CODERRE, Madame FALARDEAU, Miss CODERRE, Masters LOUIS and CHARLES CODERRE, and Mr. E. PARADIS accompanied the excursion on the government car Roleen.

Excursion C 2 afforded an opportunity to the members to see the general geological features of Canada between Toronto and the Pacific coast and to obtain more particular information regarding the coal-fields and metalliferous ore-deposits of central and western Canada, that occur along the route.

The principal coal mines visited were those situated near the Canadian Pacific railway; at Hillcrest, Blairmore and Coleman in Alberta and at Corbin and Fernie in British Columbia; those at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island; and those at Edmonton, Tofield and Pocahontas on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. The principal metal mines examined included the copper-gold-silver deposits of Phoenix and the gold-copper mines at Rossland, in British Columbia; and the nickel-copper mines at Sudbury, the silver mines at Cobalt and the gold mines at Porcupine, in Ontario.

Westbound, the excursion travelled over the Canadian Pacific railway from Toronto to Vancouver by way of the Crowsnest Pass and the Arrow lakes; and from Vancouver by steamer to Victoria. The return was made over the Canadian Pacific railway to Edmonton, whence a trip was made over the new Grand Trunk Pacific railway to Tête Jaune Pass, and by the last named railway from Edmonton to Fort William. The Canadian Pacific railway was followed from Fort William to North Bay, from which point a side trip was made by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway to Porcupine. Toronto was reached by the Grand Trunk railway from North Bay.

From Toronto to Vancouver and back to Edmonton and from Fort William to Toronto on the eastbound trip, the excursionists travelled in a Canadian Pacific special train. A Grand Trunk special was chartered for the portion of the trip made over that railway.

The excursion left Toronto on the evening of August 14, and no stop was made until Winnipeg was reached on the 16th. At Winnipeg the members were entertained at luncheon by the city; a welcome to the prairie region was extended by the civic officials, to which suitable responses were made by the Hon. Mr. CODERRE and others of the visitors. Afterwards, a number of the excursionists took a special train to Stony Mountain and Stonewall to examine the Ordovician and Silurian sections exposed there.

At Medicine Hat, which was reached on the evening of the 17th, the excursionists were taken in motor cars to see one of the gas wells and to examine other features of interest in and near the city.

The 18th and 19th were spent in an examination of the coal formations and mines along and adjacent to the Crowsnest Pass railway line; Hillcrest,

Blairmore and Coleman were visited on the first day and Corbin and Fernie on the second.

At Hillcrest a study was made of effects of the great Turtle Mountain land-slide of 1903. Standing at the edge of the fan of detritus brought down by the slide, Mr. BROCK described to the assembled members the structural geology of the region and its causative connection with the disaster.

Part of the members visited the eastern side of the synclinal valley and were able to see at the Bellevue mine the folding to which the Kootenay formation has been subjected. Others traversed the western side of the valley and visited the Hillcrest mine where the folding and faulting of the Kootenay were well displayed.

At Blairmore the coal mines and the quarries in the Fernie shales (Jurassic) were visited by the geologists while the ladies of the party were taken for a drive to the top of Blairmore mountain.

The coal mines of the International Coal Company at Coleman provided another point of interest and the members who were interested were taken on an inspection trip underground for a distance of about two miles. The rest of the party meanwhile walked up the valley for three miles to see the complete section exposed there of the Lower Cretaceous area and to view Crowsnest mountain, a thrust block of Devono-Carboniferous overlying the Cretaceous. In the evening, the Crowsnest Pass coal operators and officials entertained the excursionists at dinner, at Frank.

Through the courtesy of the British Columbia and Eastern railway the special train was conveyed from MacGillivray to Corbin, about sixteen miles to the south and situated on an eastern outlier of the Crowsnest coal-field. The members had an opportunity, there, to examine the plant and mines of the Corbin Collieries. The whole party were taken by official train to a point 1,000 feet above the valley to see the remarkable coal deposit 130 feet thick which is being mined there by steam shovel.

At Fernie the excursionists were very heartily welcomed and were taken by special train to the mines at Coal Creek where the geological structure of the district and the methods pursued in mining were explained by Mr. W. R. WILSON and Mr. JAS. McEvoy. The opportunity was seized by some of the party during a walk back to Fernie to collect some of the fossils which are fairly abundant in the Jurassic beds of the region. In the evening the members were the guests of the town at a smoking concert.

The greater part of the 20th was taken up in the traverse of the Purcell range between the Columbia-Kootenay valley and Kootenay lake. The steamer Nasookin transferred the members across Kootenay lake from Kootenay Landing to Nelson, while the special train was taken across in barges. At Nelson the party visited the rooms of the Board of Trade where they inspected a collection of the ores and minerals of the Kootenay district. An informal reception was held afterwards at the Strathcona Hotel, at which the members met many of the mining men of the district.

Nelson was left early in the morning of the 21st by special train for Phoenix, the Hon. Mr. CODERRE and party remaining over for the day

at Nelson and rejoining the party at Castlegar. A stop was made at Grand Forks, where the city provided motor cars for a short run around the city and to the smelter of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company. At Phoenix, the copper-gold-silver deposits, which occur in a zone of contact metamorphism, as illustrated by the Granby mine, were examined. A late luncheon was given by the officials of the Granby Company, and was followed by a brief trip underground from No. 3 tunnel to the 400-foot level. The pillar and room method is used in mining these lowgrade ore deposits and from the dimensions of the stopes the visitors were able to gain a good idea of the size and form of the ore bodies. The train then went on to Greenwood, where, in the evening, an hour was spent by a few of the members in a visit to the British Coumbia Company's smelter, under the guidance of the general manager.

In the early morning of the 22nd, the train arrived at Castlegar and the members transferred to a special day train for Rossland. Arriving there, a visit was made to the Trail smelter and lead refinery. After a luncheon tendered by the mine operators at Rossland, the afternoon was given up to geological excursions, both on the surface and underground.

The excursionists were divided into two parties; the undergound party studied the ore deposits, their structural relations to the various rock formations and the very intricate dyke and fault systems and collected specimens of the country rocks and of the ore and gangue minerals; the surface party examined the outcrops of the Centre Star and LeRoi veins and the associated rocks, the "White dyke" and a section of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations along the Great Northern railway near the O. K. mine. They had an opportunity also to study the local physiography. Tea was served at the Rossland club by the ladies of Rossland and a dinner was given in the evening by the city, followed by a reception at the Club. The members left by special boat train for Robson where they embarked on the steamer Bonnington which had been specially chartered for the Arrow Lakes trip.

The 23rd was spent on the steamer in traversing the Arrow lakes, the daylight trip through the basin portion of the lakes affording excellent views of the various features of a typical Cordilleran lake. An hour's stop was made at Halcyon where a visit was made to one of the few hot-springs occurring in the Canadian Cordillera. The special train was boarded again at Arrowhead and, with the exception of an hour's stop at Revelstoke, the journey was continued without interruption to Kamloops.

On the 24th the members were the guests of the city of Kamloops and a boat trip was taken on Kamloops lake and Thompson river from Kamloops to Savona. Several stops were made en route to examine the section of Tertiary lavas and sediments.

At Tranquille the members were enabled to see a 4,800-foot section of Lower Miocene volcanic rocks, of both flow and fragmental types; they examined the Battle Bluff gabbro intrusion and the rocks of the Nicola group; and had an opportunity, as well, of collecting fossil fish from the Miocene lake beds at Red Point. At Copper Creek they were shown a mercury mine,

and examined the Coldwater group conglomerate (Oligocene). They made a study also of the local physiography.

Vancouver was reached early on the 25th, and the members left on the morning boat for Victoria. The afternoon was spent in examinations of the interesting geological features in the vicinity of Victoria while a few members took advantage of the opportunity to make a side excursion to the coal fields of Nanaimo.

On the 26th, C1 and C2 excursions met in Victoria and the united excursionists devoted the morning to geological trips to neighbouring points. of interest. A luncheon was given by the Provincial government in honour of the visitors, at the Alexandra club; and in the afternoon a most enjoyable garden party was held by Lieutenant Governor Patterson and Mrs. Patterson, at Government House. The two excursions then separated, the members of C 2 returning by the night boat to Vancouver.

At Vancouver, motors were provided by the mayor and city council and the forenoon of the 27th was spent in viewing the city. The train left at noon on the return trip to Toronto, permitting the members to enjoy a daylight run through the lower part of the Fraser Cañon. A short stop was made in the cañon to see the salmon-run at Hell's Gate rapids.

On the 28th the portion of the Selkirks between Glacier and Banff was traversed by daylight. A brief stop was made at Lake Louise and two hours of the evening were spent at the Canadian Pacific Railway hotel at Banff.

At Edmonton, which was reached on the morning of the 29th, an interesting programme was provided by the city, including a boat trip down the Saskatchewan river and an examination of the coal measures of the Edmonton formation exposed in the river banks opposite the city. In the afternoon a luncheon was tendered to the excursionists at the Empire Hotel, and in the evening they transferred to a Grand Trunk Pacific special train and left for Tête Jaune, which lies 300 miles to the west of Edmonton, within the Rocky mountains.

The 30th was spent in a daylight traverse of the Rockies from Hinton to Tête Jaune. On the way, the coal-measures at Pocahontas were examined and, the weather conditions being extremely favourable, a magnificent view of Mount Robson was enjoyed from the passing train. Mount Robson is one of the great peaks of the west side of the axial range and it is here that the wonderful section of Cambrian and pre-Cambrian sediments 16,000 feet in thickness occurs. The return trip from Tête Jaune was commenced in the late afternoon.,

On the 31st a part of the morning was spent in an examination of the lignite coal deposit at Tofield and in the afternoon a stop of a couple of hours was made at Wainwright to see the herds of bison and wapiti in the National Park.

Saskatoon was reached on September 1, and the members were taken for a motor drive around the city under the auspices of the Board of Trade. The eastbound trip was resumed at noon and continued without any stops of note to Fort William, which was reached on the evening of the 2nd. The