Identifier: onheadwatersofp00hawo (find matches)
Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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nor. As one travels farther west thepeaks gradually become lower and, of course, are lessimpressive. I enjoyed the scenery along the route, though I mustadmit that I did not experience the fierce pleasure that Idid later. There is as much difference between viewingmountains from a car-window or the top of a coach andtravelling among them on foot or with a pack-train asthere is between seeing a beautiful woman on the otherside of the street and being married to her. The Eraser becomes navigable for canoes a littleabove Tete Jaune Cache, but between this place andPrince George there are numerous rapids and canyons,in particular the Grand Canyon. During constructiondays an immense amount of freight was sent down theriver in scows, fourteen hundred of these unwieldy craftbeing built for that purpose. Many were the disastrouswrecks. The river is lined with the battered timbers ofscows that came to grief. The number of men who losttheir lives on the river in this period will never be known,
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r,r- pi < <: Q O HKH OZ zz oot/2 ^ ■• 3 O A (^ THE PORTAL 19 but It was large, and many were the hairbreadth escapes.Old timers tell with particular gusto of a scow loadedwith filles de joie that hung up for hours on a dangerouspoint; the leader of the party henceforth was known inthat country as **the Sandbar Queen. Those weredays of easy money and free spending, which are fondlyrecalled by the now purse-straitened denizens of thecountry. Late in the afternoon, after many hours of runningdown the Fraser valley between aisles of cedar, spruce,and fir, we reached Prince George. This town standsat the junction of the Fraser and the Nechaco, at apoint where the valley of the Fraser, emerging from themountains, broadens out into a plain, while the Fraseritself turns to the south. Alongside stand Fort Georgeand South Fort George. Fort George was an oldHudsons Bay trading-post, established originally bySimon Fraser in 1807. Near by was the village ofthe Indians, bu

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