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Title: Sandford Fleming, empire builder
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 Railroads
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t Robson, joins the mainstream. They camped here for a day to rest their horses,and in hopes of getting a view of the Giant of the Rockies,but without success. Looking west down the valley of the Fraser, the narrowpass suddenly filled with rolling billows of mist. On theycame, curling over the rocky summits, rolling down to theforests, enveloping everything in their fleecy mantles. Outof them came great gusts of wind that nearly blew away ourfires and tents; and after the gusts, the rain in smart showers.Once or twice the sun broke through, revealing the hill sides,all their autumn tints fresh and glistening after the rain,and the line of their summits near and bold against the sky ;all except Robsons Peak which showed its huge shoulderscovered with masses of snow, but on whose high head massesof clouds ever rested/ The following day brought the travellers to Tete JauneCache, a spot long famous in the annals of the fur-trade.The spot, as well as the mountain pass, are supposed to have
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