members were immediately transferred to the Canadian Pacific Railway special train which was in waiting and the trip was continued through the Pre-Cambrian country to the north and north east of Lake Superior, to North Bay. The capabilities of the excursionists as entertainers was proved on the evening of the 3rd, when a most enjoyable impromptu concert programme was carried out in the dining car. From North Bay a side trip was made to the silver and gold districts of Cobalt and Porcupine. Porcupine was reached at noon of the 4th, and the Dome and Hollinger gold mines were visited. At Cobalt, which was reached on the 5th, the morning was devoted to a surface geological trip and in the afternoon several of the silver mines were visited. The special train left for Toronto in the early morning. A farewell meeting of the excursionists and the railway officials who had accompanied them, was held in the dining car before the train arrived at North Bay, and many of the members took advantage of the occasion to express their appreciation of the arrangements made and their thorough enjoyment of the trip. At North Bay one of the cars was detached from the special and sent on to Sudbury with eighteen members who had expressed a wish to see the nickelcopper deposits at that place. On Saturday, September 6th, the main excursion arrived in Toronto in the early morning. The Sudbury contingent visited the Murray mine where they were entertained by the officials of the Dominion Nickel Company. In the afternoon they visited the smelter at Copper Cliff, and No. 3 mine of the Canadian Copper Company, returning to Sudbury for dinner. They left Sudbury that evening, reaching Toronto on the morning of the 7th. O. E. LEROY. Excursion C 6. SUDBURY-COBALT-PORCUPINE. AUGUST 15TH-24TH. This excursion covered practically the same ground as Excursion A 3. The leaders and guides were the same as for Excursion A 3 except that Dr. WALKER was in charge at Sudbury and Mr. P. E. HOPKINS acted as secretary in place of Mr. W. R. ROGERS. Members: W. S. BAYLEY, U.S.A.; RICHARD BECK, Germany; MAX During this excursion a little longer time was spent at Cobalt than on A 3, a full day being given to the geology of Lake Timiskaming. Another full day, after leaving Porcupine, was given to the Alexo nickel mine and to the Kirkland lake gold area, which had become more accessible, through the building of a wagon road since the visit of members of Excursion A 3. At Cobalt the members of the Cobalt Branch of the Canadian Mining Institute held a reception in honour of the excursionists, and at Kirkland lake Mr. and Mrs. CHAS. A. O'CONNELL entertained at dinner. 65 1025 W. G. MILLER. Excursions C 8 and C 9. C 8. PACIFIC COAST: VANCOUVER TO MALASPINA, SKAGWAY, DAWSON AND RETURN. AUGUST 28TH-OCTOBER 4TH. C 9. SKEENA RIVER VALLEY : PRINCE RUPERT TO MORRICETOWN. AUGUST 28TH-SEPTEMBER 1ST. Leader: R. G. McCONNELL. Guides: R. W. BROCK, W. F. ROBERTSON, D. D. CAIRNES, and L. MARTIN (for Alaska). Secretary of C 8: W. A. JOHNSON. Secretary of C 9: G. G. AITKEN. Members: Sir AUGUSTINE BAKER, Ireland; L. E. DE BUGGENOMS, Belgium; H. M. CADELL, Scotland; Mrs. D. D. CAIRNES, Canada; L. CAREZ, France; Mme. CAREZ, France; J. CHARBONNIER, Canada; A. P. COLEMAN, Canada; J. DEPRAT, Indo China; L. L. FERMOR, India; Mrs. FERMOR, India; G. GÜRICH, Germany; Miss LAURA HATCH, U.S.A.; T. McD. HILLS, U.S.A.; H. M. HAUSEN, Finland; K. INOUYE, Japan; C. KIDO, Manchuria; H. F. P. Lück, Germany; H. M. LUTTMAN-JOHNSON, England; E. MAIER, Chili; E. DE MARGERIE, France; S. G. MARTIUS, Germany; E. S. Moore, U.S.A.; JEAN MOREL, Belgium; R. B. MURRAY, England; H. DE PEYERIMHOFF, France; Miss ANNA RATHGEN, Germany; W. H. RICE, U.S.A.; E. ROMER, Austria; A. SCHENCK, Germany; C. SPRUYT, Belgium; E. STOLLEY, Germany; R. S. G. STOKES, U.S.A.; F. T. THWAITES, U.S.A.; A. G. B. WILBRAHAM, England; F. R. VAN HORN, U.S.A.; B. WEIGAND, Germany; A. W. G. WILSON, Canada; T. F. W. WOLFF, Germany; J. M. WORDIE, England; L. G. ZOUDE, Belgium. The members of both excursions left Vancouver for Prince Rupert by the specially chartered C.P.R. steamer Princess Maquinna, Captain MCLEOD, master, on August 28 at 8 p.m. The usual steamer route, sheltered from Pacific storms except at two points by the succession of long islands flanking the mainland coast, was followed to Prince Rupert. A stop was made at Alert bay to enable the members to examine the Kwakiutl Indian village with its numerous totem poles. With this exception the journey was continuous and occupied 38 hours, Prince Rupert being reached at 10 a.m., August 30. The Coast range, with its heavily glaciated surfaces and the numerous, deep, steep-sided, winding fiords cutting back into it and separating the fringing islands from each other and from the mainland, formed the principal subjects of discussion during the voyage. Typical hanging valleys join the fiords in places but are much less numerous than ordinary graded valleys; and general opinion inclined to the view that they could not be due to a general deepening of the fiord troughs by ice erosion, and that, in some instances at least they may be simply extended cirques. EXCURSION C 9. At Prince Rupert the members taking C 9 excursion up the Skeena valley by the Grand Trunk Pacific railway left the steamer immediately on docking and boarded a waiting train, which left at once. Leader: R. G. MCCONNELL. Guides: W. F. ROBERTSON and D. D. CAIRNES. Secretary: G. G. AITKEN. Members: Sir AUGUSTINE BAKER, L. E. DE BUGGEONMS, L. CAREZ, Excursion C9 interested the members both from a geological and a geographical standpoint, as the ground covered embraced both the rugged Coast range and a wide section of the strongly contrasting, rough and little known interior district of northern British Columbia, with its groups of high, pinnacled peaks separated by wide, terraced valleys. The picturesque group of the "Seven Sisters," fringed on the north with hanging glaciers, was especially admired. Two days, August 30 and 31, were alloted to the excursion but, owing to the late hour at which the boat reached Prince Rupert, only a portion of the first day was available. This was occupied in making the run of 212 miles to the end of steel near Morricetown. Only two stops were made, one at Kitsalas cañon and the other at Skeena crossing. At the latter point Skeena river is sunk in a deep trough, and strongly contorted Jurassic beds are well displayed along the cañon walls. The train was billed to leave on the return journey at 8 a.m. but the members were astir long before this and, under the leadership of Mr. ROBERTSON, walked two miles to examine the wild Morricetown cañon, cut by Bulkley river through a thick andesite sheet domed into an anticline. Salmon-fishing by the Indians at the cañon added interest to the visit. During the return trip from Morricetown to Prince Rupert short stops were made at a number of interesting geological and scenic points. At mile 198 the Skeena formation, of Lower Cretaceous age, is well exposed in a long cut. Some of the beds are fossiliferous, and collections of fossil plants were made. At Mile 194 a thick band of coarse, greyish tuffs and volcanic breccias, cut by nearly contemporaneous andesitic dykes, was examined. This band is included in the Hazelton formation, of Upper Jurassic age. The ordinary rocks of this formation consists of dark feldspathic sandstone and shales, interbanded with occasional andesitic sheets. They are exposed in numerous cuttings along the railway track westward to Mile 124, and stops were made at two points to examine them. Specimens of the epidotized volcanic rocks of the Kitsalas formation were collected at Kitsalas cañon and in passing through the Coast range collections were made of the normal batholithic granodiorites, the basic schists included in them and the pegmatitic and other dykes cutting them. The last stop of the trip was made at mile 16, at a section of the Prince Rupert schists west of, but near, the western edge of the Coast Range batholith, where interesting contact effects of the batholith on the bordering sedimentary rocks were examined. Prince Rupert was reached at 7.30 p.m. and at 10 p.m. the Princess Maquinna returned from Granby bay and the excursionists going north went on board. The following members of the excursion returned to Vancouver by S.S. Prince George. G. G. AITKEN, L. CAREZ, Mme. CAREZ, J. CHARBONNIER, J. DEPRAT, W. F. ROBERTSON, R. S. G. STOKES. Trip to Granby bay. The members of C 8 excursion not taking excursion C 9 up the Skeena, spent the day in Prince Rupert as the guests of the City and the Board of Trade. The programme included a motor-boat trip to see the harbour, the new city water-works, cold-storage plant and dry-dock and a motor-car trip about the city. The Prince Rupert club extended its privileges to the members. At 10 p.m. the party sailed for Granby bay on the Princess Maquinna, under the leadership of Mr. R. W. BROCK. Anyox, the new town of the Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Company, was reached at 8 a.m. on August 31 and the party were met by Mr. O. B. SMITH, Mr. W. A. WILLIAMS, and other officers of the company. A train specially prepared for their convenience conveyed the party to the mine. The new railway cuts afforded opportunities to see the rock formation, and from the train a good view was obtained of the dense coast vegetation. After spending several hours examining the surface geology and ore outcrops and studying the underground geology of the large copper-ore bodies, the party again entrained, and were taken through the smelting and power plants, in course of construction, after which they returned to Anyox. The company's fine new hotel was formally opened by a luncheon provided to the excursionists by the company. The very pleasant and instructive visit to this new mining camp was then brought to a close, the afternoon being spent in sailing down Observatory Inlet and Portland Canal. After a stop of a few minutes at Port Simpson, the Princess Maquinna returned to Prince Rupert to pick up the members who had accompanied Excursion C 9. |