Montreal,From Mount Royal.

McGill University.

Bonsecour Church, Montreal.

A Snowshoe Party.

The traveler who, having entered the Dominion by the Strait of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has steamed directly up the river, past the shadowy. Saguenay and the defiant fortress of Quebec, to Montreal, should for a time return a little eastward, ere he starts to cross the continent to the Pacific. Otherwise he will leave behind him, unobserved, another noble avenue of approach to Canada, by way of the Maritime Provinces, -Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, a sight of which is certainly essential for any comprehension of the natural and historic features of British America. True, as was stated at the outset, the requisite space is lacking in this or any other single volume for an exhaustive treatment of so vast an area as Canada; but a brief visit must at least be made to Halifax and the romantic country of Evangeline. The well-equipped Canadian Pacific Railway now makes the trip of seven hundred and fifty-six miles from Montreal to Halifax an easy journey, particularly as the tourist will almost certainly halt, en route, in the attractive city of St. John, New Brunswick, whence, if he likes, he may avoid the longer railway tour around the head of the Bay of Fundy by crossing that remarkable sheet of water to the opposite shore of Nova Scotia in one of the comfortable steamers that make the passage daily.

The Tandem Club Drive.

ST. John, New Brunswick.

New Brunswick merits more than passing mention. This picturesque Province, which lies northeast of the State of Maine and fronts directly on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has only recently been appreciated at its proper value. Of course, men have long known and admired the prosperous city of St. John, which has since 1877 risen, like Chicago, from the ashes of a holocaust that burned nine miles of streets down to the very soil on which their buildings had been standing; and Fredericton, the pretty capital, eighty-six miles inland from the sea; as well as the beautiful St. John River, which connects these cities, and constitutes, still farther west, for eighty miles the international boundary between the Dominion and the United States, while also furnishing a convenient pathway to the coast for much of the lumber cut in the State of Maine; but most of the interior of New Brunswick is rarely visited, and still remains comparatively unexplored. It is, however, a veritable paradise for lovers of the rod and rifle. Experts declare that it contains more "big game" to the square mile than any other Canadian Province or State of the American Union; and these wild animals, thanks to the enforcement of efficient laws, are said to be increasing, rather than diminishing. New Brunswick may be called, par excellence, the land of "Forest, Lake, and Stream," since it is densely wooded, and dotted with innumerable lakes, almost connected by a maze of silvery rivulets, the distances between which are so short, and the country so level, that one can travel easily through this "happy hunting ground" with comfortable camping outfits and canoes, the portage being never arduous. In fact, this Province is furrowed by so many rivers, which end in admirable harbors, that for its size it has been called the best-watered country in the world. In this alluring wilderness, the edge of which is nevertheless accessible from Montreal or Boston in about twenty-four hours, roam moose, the breadth between whose antlers not infrequently exceeds four feet, as well as caribou, bear, lynx, sable, minx, and beaver, while all the waterways and lakes abound in trout, and form the favorite haunts of wild fowl.

Indian Building A Birch Bark Canoe.

The Long Reach, ST. John River.