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PRS @ Following THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Jagellan's Footsteps SOF BRITAIN EMPRESS OF CANADA fisher civilization has not killed the Spirit of Adventure. it may even be, that people now-a-days are affected more by Wanderlust than they ever were, and enhanced facilities for travel with a greater degree of safety have stimulated, and not a little, the desire to see other than their immediate environs. In the old days when Columbus, Vespucci, Balboa, De Soto and Drake, Cartier and Champlain, and other bold mariners sailed into the unknown and its perils on the seven Seas, much courage was needed but today the World is eyery-man's oyster, nor does it have to be opened with a sword. With alittle time and comparatively little money, one can see the places where history was made, far off countries and strange people, and live the while, in comfort. : Four hundred years ago, the first vessel to sail round the world lifted anchor at Seville, and after three years of adventurous hardship, returned to her Spanish port. Only thirty-one of the two hundred and seventy who set out came back, and only the Vittoria out of the original Armada of five sailing ships. The spirit of these seafarers is illustrated by the vow of Fernando Magellan their commander, as he set.out from Tierra del Fuego across the Great South Sea, that he would push on if he had to eat the leather of the riggin'. Magellan himself was killed in the Phillip- pines, but as he had already reached that longitude on a previous voyage eastward from Spain, he is rightly credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe. ; ; : Sixty years after the Vittoria set out from Seville, Franeis Drake with 2 fleet of five sailing ships and 164 men sailed from Plymouth in The Golden Hind, and after a voyage round the world of almost three years, returned with a rich loot of silver and gold, silk, pearls and precious stones, to raplenish the coffers of Queen Elizabeth. The Golden Hind was the only essel of the five to complete the voyage and it became the favourite resort f tourists on the Thames in the days of Shakespeare. Vv! 13 uebec to Repeat Carnival Success | 3. The Guns whichonce defended the citadel nowaccommodate the smailrevellers. 2and éareSki-ing scenes. 3. Theseare out fora "bounc-' ¢ ing" good time. 4. Skating thie Lxitibadon Grounds is also the order of the day. 5. "Negik' was born this year ga the Chateau Frontenac dog team and he will probably figurelargely in thm.dog race featuring the Winter Sports Prograra. > UEBEC is again tohavea real, live carnival that shall rhe woiden ding, onginaily named he reilican, was a sup ol 120 tons, whereas the Empress of Canada, which sets out on a Round the World Cruise from New York on January 30th, 1924, registers no less than 21,500 tons. Instead of three years of privation and hardship, the voyage will occupy four months of luxurious comfort The route will be shorter, as instead of rounding the Cape of Good Hope the route taken is through the Suez Canal, and instead of traversing the stormy Straits of Magellan, the American continent is finally crossed on the excellent road-bed of the Canadian Pacific Railway. But many of the points touched by Sir Francis Drake and Magellan will be visited by the Empress of Canada, for instance, Batavia, Sourbaya and the traverse of the Celebes Sea to the Phillipines. The circumnavigators on the Empress of Canada will return laden with the rich experiences; and mental treasures gathered from visions of eighteen different countries, and contact with the costumes crafts and civilizations of fifty different races. Pr Encouraged by successes of former years, the Canadian Pacific has arranged for four cruisers in addition to the Round the World voyage of the Empress of Canada. The Empress of Scotland will visit the cradle of civilization in a trip Round the Mediterranean, sailing from New York on onary 14th. The superb Empress of Britain will make two cruises Round the West Indies, leaving New York on January 22nd and February 23rd, and, before setting off round the world, the Empress of Canada will travel Round America, sailing from Vancouver on January 4th, visiting the Pacific coast, California, and going via the Panama Canal and Cuba to New York. This vessel will be commanded by Captain S. Robinson R. N. R. who fizured so conspicuously in the relief work which followed the recent Japanese disaster. Look for the SPECIAL PICTORIAL NUMBER of The Dryden Observer Printed in Colour Out Christmas Week! weEE Tore and Phore A discovery of excellent ochre {raw sienna) was recently made near Ellershouse Station on the Do- minion Atlantic Railway. The color is uniform throughout, with very little gritty matter in the main body. The material can be burnt to produce a variety of colors from reddish brown to black. Prospect- ing is still going on. ~ Canadian Pacific S.8. "Meta- gama" westbound from Glasgow via Belfast, recently docked at Montreal and Quebec with the rec- ord number of 382 cabin and 1,078 third class passengers. This con- stituted a record only for ships of the size and type of the '"Meta- gama," the Canadian Pacific Em- press liners often having a far larger list. J Canadian Pacific Railway offi- cials 'estimated that 61,000 men would be required to harvest the western crops this year. They ex- peeted to supply only 9,000 from the prairie provinces and British Ceo- lumbia and made arrangements to carry over 50,000 from Ontario, Quebec and the east. " United States factories turn out chewing gum to the value of $41,- 000,000 annually. The extent to which this product is used in this country can be appreciated when it is known that at the Canadian Pa- cific Windsor station, Montreal, a man is continually employed in re- moving gum stains from the mar- ble floor. Despite the fact that the new Basilica at Ste. Anne de Beaupre is still in course of construction, many thousands more have visited the shrine this year than in former years, and at frequent intervals the Canadian Pacific Railway has been called upon to add special equipment to its regular trains to accommodate the pilgrims. The Redemptorist Fathers are investigating a large number of cures claimed to be mi- raculous. : E. L. Richardson, manager of the Calgary Stampede of 1923, held un-~ der the patronage of the Prince of Wales and Governor-General Byng, announces that, owing to the enor- mous success of the great rodeo July 9-14 it will be staged annuaiy instead of at intervals of several vears, as heretofore. The recent Stampede was attended by 137,800 people. Only once in the histery of Can- ada was the gold production record set in 1922 exceeded, and that was in 1800, when the Yukon placers reached-.the peak of their yield. During 1922, - 1,263,364 ounces of gold were mined in the Dominion. The value is set at $26,116,050, an increase of 36% over the previous year's figures. In 1900, 1,359,057 ounces of gold were mined and the value was $27,908,153. Canada's trade is climbing ahead. Total trade in the three months end- ing June was $462,544,438, an 'in- crease of $110,841,056 over the cor- wesponding three months of last year. For June alone total trade was $179,720,616, an increase of $44,944,732 over last year. Domes- tic exports in the three months in- creased approximately $50,000,000 an imports approximately $61,000,- { 0 '» -~ I" v For U.S. President? BRA ee en BRR i RT eS por EA £7 Btn nti Wi "attractions of the ancient Capital. be truly representative of the wonderful sporting The success of the dog races held in Quebec last year has encouraged the organizers te sponsor a very much bigger program for this year, and a comprehensive series of sporting events will be held on February 21, 22, and 23, in which all the sports for which Quevec is so naturally adapted will be represented, and culminating in a grand masquerade ball at the Chateau Frontenac. In addition to the interna- tional races for the Eastern Dog Sled Derby Trophy, there will be events in snow-shoeing, skiing, ice racing, curling and skating. The whole of these events will take place within the Exhibition Grounds, and it is proposed tb once again give Quebec an ice palace. The people of Quebec take, and naturally, a great pride in their wonderful old city, and the ancient capitas is not so large that its people cannot get together on occasion to fete en masse. A carnivalin Quebecisnot to be forgotten, for the whole populace absorbs the spirit of the season, drawing its visitors into the gay vortex, so #hat | even the walls which rang to laughter centuries ago lose j their aged atmosphere, and lend themselves to the fete. | By reason of its even and exhilarating climate, its ! accessibility and natural and artificial opportunities for sport, Quebec is the home of the winter sports for the continent. Each wintry season, more people are at- tracted to it, and for long periods it becomes. the secial centre, as well as the sporting centre of North Ameriea. ; Practically everything that is carried on is on an open scale--Quebec is the soul of hospitality. A hundred rinks ' invite you to skate, as far as you can see, fir-clad hills ' invite you to ski through their myriad glorious glades, of toboggan slides there are not a few, and there are many excursions which simply must be made on snow-shoes. As for evening entertainment. the ball room of the Cha- teau Frontenac is the scene of a dance nightly. There are moonlight excursions, events on all illuminated rinks, : music, song and dance,--a thousand things to do. # Wien Henry Ford was asked by Montreal reporters if he would run for f President of the United States, he said, "lI am not running for or against anything", but when asked if he would accept nomination if pro- ferred, the motor car king replied: "No one knows what they will do from one day to another." Mr. Ford ifhere seen in conversation with Mr. Grant Hall, vice-president of the Canadi i n Pacific Railway, at Windsor Station, Montreal.