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51_136 Montreal to Vancouver, B.C. that stand in a row near the lake edge of Lake Superior. From Winnipeg to the Rocky Mts. the rolling plains country is now covered with ranches, thin here, dense there. It was all but untenanted thirty-four years ago. How terribly ugly are the little towns, how ugly the farms, with their crude shacks or homely frame structures, rarely a tree, taking the country by and large. The towns are like those of the dusty hot San Joaquin plain used to be though some still are as rough as ever. Usually, however, some trees have been planted in the San Joaquin to soften the ugliness. |
51_137 Sept. 13-17, 1930. In the Canadian Rockies mostly at night time. On the west drainage we follow down the Thompson River. The mountains that rise are for many miles mostly barren on their lower slopes. Kamloops, a town situated near the junction of the North and South Thompson rivers, is an old Hudson Bay Company's post. Lower down the Thompson is confined to a narrow rocky gorge and finally enters the Fraser River, which in its whitish waters, looks like a glacial stream. The Fraser often forms rapids and some of them seem as if difficult to run with a small boat or canoe. And so, late at night we come to Vancouver and I transfer to the Great Northern R.R. station, show my passports, |
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