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Title: Canada's national playground, a guide and souvenir of the mountain resorts
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Godenrath, Percy F. (Percy Francis), 1875-1944
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Publisher: Calgary, Herald Co.
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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Th L after a goodly Methodist missionary, Mr. Rundle, who ministered to the needs of theIndians on the Stony Reserve) to the banks of the Bow river, a distance of about eight miles. On this drive a splendid view of the Bow falls is obtainable. The rapids are eighty feet wide at the confluence of the Spray and Bow rivers. On Sulphur mountain, two and a half miles by roadfrom the bridge, are the head-waters ofHot the Hot Springs, situated about 800 feet Springs, above Banff. At this point the Dominiongovernment has erected a most completebathing establishment, including hot tub baths, steamrooms, hot and cold showers, sweat rooms, and a largeswimming pool. The sulphur water gushes from theside of the mountain, fifty or sixty feet above the levelof the road, whence it is supplied at a natural tempera-ture to the bath house and the two hydropathicestablishments located here. The water is of greatermedicinal strength than at the Cave and Basin. Thegovernment charge for a bath is 35 cents.
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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE NEWSOF CANADAS NATIONAL PLAYGROUND -SUBSCRIBE FOR CRAG *» CANYON X= WHICH IS PUBLISHED IN THEINTEREST OF THE PARK.SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEARW.H.KIDNER MANAGING EDITOR 4 Mr. McGill, assistant analyst of the Canadian Govern-ment, who made a full examination of the Banff watersupplies, reports : The water is very free from organic impurities andgives no albuminoid nitrogen. * * Each gallon con-tains dissolved sulphuretted hydrogen to the amount of0.3 grains (equivalent to 0.8 cubic inch.) The dissolved solids are as follows:— Chlorine (in chlorides) 0.42 grains Sulphuric Acid (SO3) 38.50 Silica(Si02) 2.31 Lime CaO) 24.85 Magnesia (Mg ) 487 Alkalies (As Soda, NTa20) 0.62 Lithium A decided trace. The temperature of the spring is 114.3 degrees Fahrenheit. From the Hot Springs a switch-back bridle path amongthe pines leads to the Government Ohserva-The tory on the summit of Sulphur Mountain, at Observatory an elevation of over 8,000 feet. The Observa-tory bui

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