Travel Letters: Canadian Rockies, Hiking + Painting

3 ours look as if we were pretty commercial. Murray? Adaskin? was pretty upset about it too, so we are going to find out today what the idea was in their hanging it and maybe take ours down. Then we saw Mr Palenski a Chicago artist who is an old friend of Pete's and he gave us both critisizms on our pictures which were awfully true. We also saw the Oakes? and George Vaux and then Murray came down {Right margin, handwritten in pencil: 'X'} here to see the pictures we have just done {Handwritten in pencil: 'X'} to see if there was one they would like for Mr Key's? present.

Then this morning all sorts of things seemed to happen. Mr Kingman? from Minneapolis left word he would be here Friday to make arrangements for next year skiing. Pete saw Mr Gibbon who has guaranteed us passes anywhere on the C.P.R. to drum up ski parties and was awfully interested in everything. Tee was around wanting to borrow sleeping [.ogs]. And then Mrs White came down to give us a message& stayed a while to discuss where Victor should stay. He has been sleeping at Lila's? but it crowds them and also he has been there a long time & you have no real privacy with a person in the house most of the time. There seems an awful lot to think of some times. Mr Palenski will be here for tea this afternoon and also a lady from Honolulu who is anxious to come skiing next winter. We may go to Calgary tonight as we have several things to do and the Panets? arrive this weekend. However I could get away very easily the first of the month which is mknday and leave Pete to paint two Indians and with Victor go on another sketching trip. So

4 Please wire P.D. G. if you woukd like to see me. For hinest I woukd love nothing better than to come.

Frances letters were so nice and I was amused about the Manieves. Imagine all the people they had staying there. You'd think they might save a little by not entertaining so much. Its harder to understand them every day.

I guess when I get home I shall have to do as the doctor or someone did when they were called upon to admire the new baby and say "My! What a baby" for there seem to be so many new arrivals I can't be truthful and say they are the loveliest baby I ever saw to each one. Its nice Edith is to have one & that they are taking a house in Rockport this summer.

Wasn't it funny that Henry Stibbins? should have come out I knew he was going to medical school but didn't realise he had been there long enough to be a Doctor. It would be fun to see him again.

I forgot to mention the press. We would love it but perhaps if we waited until we were coming out we could check it and so save express for imagine it being so heavy it might cost quite a bit.

What a shame Uncle George Owen had a stroke, it is too bad for I imagine he was feeling fairly well and spry. Its fun having the Concord Journal to read about everyone but of course they never mention any sickness? and so I didn't see why Miss Houghton was having a sale. What a shame she had to give up for

5 what will people do now without her store. Is she very ill?

Your letters have been fine and full of news and things, still it is hard to tell everything very fully in letters unless you write the kind those ancestors of ours did that class & reclass each other and which noone has time enough to look over.

I'm really getting quite excited about the prospect of making a trip east. Somehow I hadn't thought of going unless you asked special until we went before Christmas but now the more I think of it the nicer it would be and really we have done so much in June & July and still have September that really I wouldn't mind missing most of August here. After all the mosquito es will be gone in September and they are pretty thick now.

Remember to wire immediately if you want me to come and if you don't I'll just wait until you do, so you had better right off.

Loads of love always

Catharine.

{Top left, handwritten in red: scribble followed by '71'} {Letter head featuring red and green flower and bud on left and text on right: 'CHATEAU LAKE LOUISE LAKE LOUISE - ALBERTA'}

Friday - August 4, 1933,

Dearest Mother,

We are off this morning on the Sky Line Trail Hikers and it looks as if it would rain any minute. There are thirty going some just for the first day to Moraine Lake. We came up here last night to get a good sleep before starting and then of course it was midnight before we got to

2 bed. Henry Kingman is here but not going with us. We really have the most amusing crowd. Its a new thing and so Mr Gibbon has asked people like Carl Rungins and Col Moore to go and they aren't walkers at all, but Riders. So we have been joking about it all. Col Moore said yesterday he stepped on a bourd with a nail in it and "it was just his luck to have the nail go through his sole but between his toes" so he still has to go a - hiking. We have long