PAGE TEN, mE DAILY RRITISH SHIR, TUESDAY y 1911. I EE ¥ ~ PEER E PRR FFP RTF OT TPP Sr Pr FPP ETT TET Tes CTT TTT Trib FRE ERR DERE bE i bbb bet bbb b bbb dt bbb ibid id cnt serio ANADA IN PHOTOGRAPHY conser a " TIE Ee PEPE Pde BY J0SEPH BROWN, Jr. ee NOVEMBER 7, ---- MA EE Fb wi PIPPIN 3) FA 1 ERR RRR ERR er PRE RS & 3 HOOO0OO00OCO0! "x rs ® 2OO00000X 0RGA00000000000K 8 if AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA I BE a EE i i tnt a POOOOOBOOOX HPPA Eb dh AR HEE HOOOOOROOONVOC I HIAIIIIOVHE EAI, CISA an OOO v PAE EA ER EE BEER RE SB A de 2 edb ded UR ER Sabb A eee deb bd X00000000A0CACOOOOI00RCOCICONOOCO0NN000CCHNN00NNN0N00ORNB0ACOACIOCN0 COO00000000OOO0000COU F 4 WOO Ls oo If one were to ask the average man how he would like to spend Yhree months taking pictures of Western | { Canada ' for use in a railway's ad- {vertising campaign, he wou 4 answer that Re would like nothing better, nd 3 guid Probably add that "he ust looking for a nic long | tholiday." 'To the. average man #uch | Wa trip at the expense of a railway | : {would bring up visions of restful {trips in the observation cars, of {healthy suppers in the differs. of - very comfortable existence, withal, punctuated at otenvenient intépysls | 'with the snapping of ~amera shutterse Talk C. 8. Bennett, the Offi. | {clad Photographer of the Canadian | {Pagitic Railway, and you get Letter | {iden of just what such a trip Involve Mr Bennett 1s the man who, under ithe direction of W. T. Robson, the | dvertising Manager, gets out all the iqatcations for. the many prety | {amphlo. issued by the C. P. R. aturally' with it's sevénteen hotels | Iota sixty-seven steamships, its h uge | {land Interests and its one thousand | 8 4 | "TOWN OF BANFF, I 1Q 8 Io : {andl one other interests, the C. PR. i {does considerable advertising In fact | Be the biggest and best Brai'- in the world, It is also fo of the biggest advertisers, and {in keeping itself before the public | van, in the days when joe ita photographic Department is | paid their em ployees, with ong of its most important adjuncts j < Fever you go you will find their plotures and photographs: They ap- Pedr In magazines and newspapers alli over the world, They are in stations, !u public bulldings, in hotels and they ire all prepared and printed at Mr "Bennett's headquarters in trea! © photographic department at IMomtrea! is a busy place. ands of plotures ani all kinds are distributed 689 every year, and no slack season The Department - 1s located at tha pany's headguarters In Montreal . {It Ip up near the roof of the Windsor ] Station where pleniy oF sun' light can. be obtained fer the ting of the photographs. At one of the room Is a door leading {Inte the dark "room, whare all the ara developed. At the other | ere is another room where the slides wrepared for ube | photos from there is there are thousands sorts of scenes, and and cases alury the walls Are numerous edlargements an. | showing rything from | life on' the rock bound laska. these enlargement. "re made premises, prints 8" by 10° It is ts that the Cana | "sends forth .to its masy Sometimes the pictures are | Just as they appear after | been printed. More often, i wre first tinted in For this work there | Thous- | Ea lecturers. In boxes | shelves of the main room of | { ities . were at their BUI LDING THE BIG DAM AT BASSANO AND BOW RIVER, ALBERTA. 300000000 BE CEO PE 2000000000000000000000C 9000000000000AC000000000000C HOBOOOO00OOO0NNO00 5 was on Fomeward: trig ) through the mountains that the mu jority of pictures were taken. along the lines of the were made and w anyons, rive to "look pre pict ures pose for anoramic camera had 1 0 work -ovs Golng i showing tunnel s was first built the his 'point was so Heavy that pd yar engines Yo. draw an ordi- In reducing this grade mpany found it necessary to construct fwo spiral tunnels. Ti tunnels are' wonderful engineer feats. In h the train make complate inside the mui before smerging from, darkness daylight The view taken by Bennett shows the mouths of tunnels with the €. P. R. tracks the forezround and in the rear a 'cons g! ome ration of peaks passes 3 ' including Mt Ogden, rald Peak, Mt. Mt. Fieid, Mt ay, En Mt, Yayo, Burg 000000000 OCOOOOUINO0O00OC HOQEOVLCO00A0CAR000UTIN00 i the railways, cold hard Ly cheque as {8 now | car was fitted up moving photographic " was a dark tanks, work wud there cash, instead of customary. The 18 a minfature establishment. room, for devel tables, drying fra | wore also =zpacious living quarters for Renneit and his assistants. Tanks the capacity of 300 gallons were | installed =o that rumni ng water could always be had for washing tha ple- tures. The actual photographic out- fit included an 8 by 10 camera and a large panoramic cameras eapalne of taking a picture of from 8 to 18 faet long Leaving Montreal made their first stop at Win-} nipeg. . Here It had been hoped to oblaip some pictures of the Royal Alexandra Hotel, the C. P. R. stock! yards etc, but the weather was in. clement, and it was decided to poat- | i pone operations in this city until the home irip. Travelling Wastward the | party took the Crow's Nest Pas roule to the Kootenay Lakes stopping en! roite at, Lethbridge Cramnbrook, etc. { t the former 'place some good ple- | | tures were obtained of the big Cana- ! dian Pacifie viaduct across the Belly River. This viaduct i$ one of the {largest ia the world, It is over five { thousand feet loug and tikes the! the travellers | place of twenty wooden trestles. At | the Kootenay Lakes there were many beautiful pictures to ha had, espe- | i-elally around Balfour whers the OC. "PR. bas just recently opéned ns new } hate. The' Kootenay &nd Arrow Takes form a highly picturesque waterway, and the C.. PR men rov- | ered practically the whole district, | takine views from the steamboats where possible and at other times | travelling 'by foot. i © NAt Victoria the party arrived just in time for ths coronstion fest ities Hare the big panoramic camers was | unlimbered, and set up op the roof of the Pout office, and when the festiv- height '3 Bab was prevsed. The resultant picture gives a magnificent pangram.y view -2000000000000000000 vet. OOOO ~~ DOOC000O00OCOCOO000 "THE GAP". "i of Lake Journey was commenced. 'Dufiug the return trip through the mountains both of the big cameras carrie® by the van "Horn Range and Cathedral Peak. Altdiether there i$. a horizen of about thirty-five mi os rod' od to & picture aight feet long Near here m Burgess Pass there was snother taken whieh { eountry ENTRANCE TO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES Mount Falr- the most won- Rockies. Several guides who ar - uver from .8witzer- P. R. to aid the R and they a un several! of his Louise from This is one of parts of the Swiss brought the C view. derfu! of the nually land by mountain climbers "in were slationed here panied Mr. Bennett excursions into 3 Bl nding With the panoramic camera Away up on Mount Fairview a wide stretch of country e¢ould be seen through the focusing glass and the pioture taken at this point shows athong weil known heights, Mount Victoria, WVictoria Glacter, Lesser Beehive Mountain, Hazel peak, and Mount Pelon.. There I's also shown a grand sweep of - Lake Louise, with the Chateau Lake Louise guarding the/ shores, Of the many panoramic views takes at Banff probably the prettiest are those showing the village from Bul« phur Mountain and from: Tunnel Mountatn. Ib thé first of these pic- tares, Mount Rundle, the Bow River Valley, the C. P. R. hotel, Fairholme Range, Tunaell 'Mountain, Cascade Mountatn, - Stoney, Squaw Mouh- tain and Sawback Mountain stand out prominently and. there is also , Ahown the new golf links that have 7] special Valley, Mt: Wapta, ete. One of the incidents related by Mr. ! Bennett of his trip was in connection | with Field. There he met an iduriy| Duich Lady who Ww to -Mentreal. «© She ticket straight through but when she | saw Field she was sorry thit she had not made arrangements to slop over. Asked by one of her fellow travellers it she would not lke fo walt over for a few days and see that aaction 4 of the mouniaing she replied' "Ah, am dndeed sorry, for tifls Seenery ul the best wat iss,' Bs there Was - view. taken : | camera. Been bullt on the Bow River Flats .The people bf Banff are just a little They are: bit proud of these links. the only ones in the Canadian Rockles and woof course they are one of the main attrac 'fons at Banff In| the second picture are shown, Moupt Rundle, Spray Vai- ley, the C: PR. hotel, the Alpine Clat:. Mouse; Mount Massive, Bur- peols, Range. Stoney Mountain, Squaw Mountain, ete. During his stay in Mr. Bennett tried to get soms ple- tures of Willlam' Rockefeller and party who were at that time making mentioned the mountains 'a trip through the Rockies fu their main attractions at Banff train. Mr, Rockefeller man- aged to elnde the C. P. R. man how- ever, although the latter obtained good photos of several other no less prominent tourists. This was where the 8 by 10 camera did goed work, and fn fact Windreds of pietiires were taken with this At Glacier, B.C, a trip was made to the 'Diicillewast Glacier This is a huge moving ice field cov- ering an area of over twenty sguare miles and it 1s one of the scenic | features of the mountains. People by the score visit this spot every season and Mr. Bennett's pletures are only {several of the thousand 'that the glacier annually powes for. At Glacier, too, xlimpses were taken of the Great aa of the Nakimu © These ty the he solid are wonderful caverns formed action of water for ages on roc and consist of a series bers with jarge entrances an ceilings, The walls sparkle wit quartz crystals, and myriads 1 ights are reflected Near Field some viev ed of the wonderful Takakkaw Fa the highest cataract in América, ght > the height of Niagara, This 48 in the Yoho Va hich 1a for its casc 5, and its § were obl an the camera was un- exposures taken of the Divide This is the highest pe int of the Rockies gtrenm devid!.., sends thse water of one branch to the Atlantic ocean apd the other to the Pacific Ocean ™ The "Lakes in the olouds", the baths and the Canadian National Mark at Banff furnished further "Copy" In fact with both the panoramic and the 8 by 10 camera working var ighout tha Mountal ny was very little in the shape 0 that escaped. - Leaving the mountains some (ine! views were obtained of she Canadian Pacific Railway's Irrigation opera- tions in the vicinity of Calgary. liere the Canadian Pacific Is carrying out the .. biggest irrigation project in America. A tract of 3,000,000 acres is being irrigated, and operations being pushed on a gigantic sca There some especially interest ng pictures of the big dam at tained, Here the compar ving the Bow river with a st 1000 feet long and 45 feet the plotures give a good | immensity of tha structures g still nearer Montreal stops! made practically all through/ Iberta" and Manitoba to get ood! farmr scenes, This was near the snd of - August and so the officials were just in time for the harvesting » method of proceedure in he get- ting of these pictures was to pile the camera and plates into an automobile and scour the surrounding country stopping and making exposures wherever a good chance offered. Hawever the party was not lucky* enough to always be able to travel in automobiles while on these excursions many times having te travel by horse and rig or ou hand ears and at other times having to cover the ground on foot. This was hard work but the re sults obtained were worth it. There are views showing the farmers reap-| ing their grain' with huge trae"on! engities for motive power. Theres! are wiews showing the farmers stand- ing tp to their 'shoulders in the rips gops and theres ard numerous thresh- i scenes. Also thems ars good views of the Denignsiration Farm at Strathmore. This farm was bullt with the two<foid object of providing fresh food stuffs for the Company' dining cars. and to demonsirats to the Western farmers-the best method of crop cultivation. One of the ple tures taken at this farm shows th cows' boing milked by machines rum by electricity. The Ready-Made-Fa with thelr sompact houses, the! barns ind thelr fenced acreage, al ready for the settler, gave other in-~ teresting pictures, and then Winn! wis visited for the ssoond time. : After leaving Winnipeg and the prairie provinces a ¥top of a few @ duration was made at Porp Arthur) and Fort Willam and then down through the Great Lakes went the party and back to Montreal During the trip there were taken by Mr. Bennett probably six hundred pictures all of which will be used by the Advertising Department in ts work during the next twelve t The ieaden heart easly learns sow) fd praise the siden rule fn siiveryi tones. a ak packed and Great Here a moun time thre ere nery wore mo ol i OOOO th.) : HOW aT va