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51_134 St. Lawrence Gulf - The passage across the ocean has not been at all rough, and only at times a little choppy. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence the seas are wonderfully fine, under a full sun. [Cont. from p 121] someone is interested in spreading such rumors.] Nevertheless, not liking the ocean I count the hours until we arrive at Montreal. Sept. 13 - We arrive at 7:00 in the morning and I find that it is necessary to wait until 10:15 tonight to secure a sleeping berth on a Canadian Pacific train. It is raining hard but I go up to the McGill University campus. Its buildings make a fine group facing on a central quad. |
51_135 Sept. 11, 1930 of tree-covered green. The buildings are stone, the architecture of the traditional collegiate on the whole. One of the impressive buildings facing on Dominion Square is the Sun Life Assurance structure in whitish stone. I doubt if there is anywhere on the Pacific Coast a building comparable to this in majesty, sense of business utility, and in architectural satisfaction. From Montreal to Winnipeg the line is through forest of spruce, hemlock, birch. It does not look like a primitive forest but a fairly young second-growth one. At Port Arthur I was impressed by the series of larger cake-like hills or circular blluffs |
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