From Ontario we travelled westward to Prince
Rupert on the British Columbian coast, holding sittings at Saskatoon,
Edmonton and Prince Rupert. We then proceeded by steamer, through
glorious scenery, southward to Victoria, Vancouver Island. At Victoria
and also at Vancouver we took evidence. From Vancouver we journeyed
eastwards by the Canadian Pacific Railway over the Rockies, breaking our
journey and holding sittings at Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley, at
Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, devoting
several days each to many of these places. Whilst in British Columbia we
also visited the lower part of the Okanagan Valley, and whilst in the
prairie provinces stopped at Medicine Hat (where the gas lamps burn day
and night because it would cost more in wages than the cost of the gas to
employ a man to turn them out). In Ontario we visited North Bay, Fort
William, Port Arthur, Guelph and Niagara Falls. In addition some of us
travelled through the mining districts of British Columbia, and also
inspected the asbestos mines at Thetford, in the Province of Quebec.
This is the bald outline of our long and interesting journeys, which by
land and sea comprehended some 70,000 miles.
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