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A004 Banff National Park

Alberta Canada
Two Versions Here gaf & Sawyers

VIEW-MASTER REEL ONE
1. Cover Picture—Bow Valley from Banff Springs Hotel
2. Bow Valley Falls
3. Bow River, Banff Springs Hotel
4. Mt. Rundle and Lake Vermilion
5. The Three Sisters
6. Banff from Chair Lift
7. Banff from Administration Building

VIEW-MASTER REEL TWO
8. CPR Train at Banff Station
9. Canoeing on Bow River
10. Banff Springs Hotel Golf Course
11. Lake Minnewanka
12. Hoodoo Formation
13. Canadian Elk

VIEW-MASTER REEL THREE
14. Mount Elsenhower and Bow River Indians
15. Gathering of the Braves
16. A Chief and Squaw
17. Stoney Indian Chief
18. Medicine Man
19. Stoney Indian Woman
20. Medicine Man Dance
21. Indian Rodeo

VIEW-MASTER REEL ONE
1. Mt. Rundle, Vermilion Lake
2. Buffalo Paddock
3. Lake Minnewanka
4. Bow Falls
5. Hoodoo Formation
6. Gondola Lift
7. Bow Valley

VIEW-MASTER REEL TWO
8. Banff's Scenic Street
9. Indian Chief Tom Kaquitts
10. Gathering of the Braves
11. Medicine Man
12. Indian Rodeo
13. Hudson's Bay Co. Store
14. Canadian Elk


VIEW-MASTER REEL THREE
15. Cover Picture Cable Car's on Mt., Norquay
16. Canadian Pacific Train
17. Trans-Canada Highway
18. Radium Hot Springs, Kootenay
National Park
19. Mount Eisenhower
20. Upper Hot Springs
21. Banff from Sulphur Mt.

Edited by LOWELL THOMAS

 MEDICINE MAN In the Indian community, the Medicine Man was great- ly respected, for all the problems that could not be solved by ordinary means were consigned to him. He invoked his "magic" to pre- vent or cure sickness, drought, food shortages, or raids by the enemy.

INDIAN RODEO At the Indian rodeo during Indian Days there are events such as saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, tied calf roping, old timers' calf roping, and cowboys' stake races. Boys' steer riding and children's races insure something for everyone. Each evening during the festival, the Indians of the Rocky Mountain tribes gather to the beat of authentic tom-toms for concerts. Symbolic dances take for their themes rain, war, arrow, chicken, and deer. Their songs carry sounds of battle, wind, waterfalls, storms, and echoes.

 HUDSON'S BAY CO. STORE The present store brings up memories of early days when all life revolved about the newsy marketplace. The first Hudson's Bay Company store was started in Montreal in 1670 by two Frenchmen, Groseilliers and Radisson, and this became an outlet for the fur trade. In 1886 Banff was surveyed by a Mr. George A. Stewart who arrived by railroad. At that time there were two hotels, two general stores, a livery, and a few shacks. The influx of construction men, trappers, and workers from the newly opened mine at Anthracite brought a lively business to the stores. A tent, then a log cabin furnished the first restaurant in 1886. Banff was now ready for tourism! Curative value ^ of the mineral springs in the region had reached the ears of many. However, access to the springs was difficult. In 1887 the first wooden bridge was built over the Bow River, which helped to develop the south side. The Canadian Pacific Rail- road shortly thereafter built a five-story frame building on the present site of the Banff Springs Hotel. There soon followed a Methodist church, two hotels, a dance pavilion, and two post offices—Banff P. 0. and National Park P. 0.