Travel Letters: Canadian Rockies, Hiking + Painting

3 staffs to help us along and we all think they are pretty long and none of us are used to carrying anything but we are going to for Mr Gibbons sake, and probably they will come in mighty handy. Georgia [E...hard] who is a real Mountain Climber is going and it is funny to see her carrying such a thing. Dan McCowan, the Lecturer, and Herry Pollard are all going.

I'll try to write from Lake O'Hara if I get a chance. Until then loads of love

Catharine.

{Top left corner, pencil: 'M36 91'} 4 {Top right corner, pencil: 'Accn. 1122'} P.S. Mr Greene, with the Pacific Relations Conference, was an old friend of Mr Sherman Hoars?. Aunt Mary's husband. I forgot to tell you that before. Also tell Russ a person named Joe Barnes is coming - does he know him.

More love

Catharine.

{Top right, handwritten in red: '72'} {Centre aligned printed header } LAKE O'HARA CHALET-BUNGALOW CAMP HECTOR, B. C. {Left aligned} Saturday evening August 5 1933

Dearest Mother

Here we are at O'Hara safe and sound though thoroughly soaked before we got in. We would run into bad weather, but in every other way the Sky Line Hikers is a great success.

Pete and I drove up to Lake Louise Fridy evening after supper, having spent rather a hectic afternoon seeing friends off on the train, helping Jackie hang pictures and then had supper about 5.30 and then about seven or maybe it was 6.30 started to get things together for the trip. for it was 7.30 when we finally got off after numerous last minute things to see too. Pete had to be at the Chateau at nine for a meeting. Henry Kingman was there and he introduced me to a lot of Alpine Club people and so I had fun talking to them until Pete was through. Then we spent a while in Doug Harvies room and it was midnight before we got to bed. We were up at 6.30 and the first to breakfast, thats why I had time to

2 write you a line in the morning before we left. It was hard getting everyone & everything ready, and though we were supposed to have at 8.00 it was 9.00 before we got off. We have two Swiss Guides and are divided into two Parties. I am with Ernest in the first party and we are usully a little faster than the others. With us are Georgia [E..lchard]. (The girl from New York who has climbed so much out here & looks like a boy, in fact twice on trains she has been told she was in the wrong wash room!) I am really with them. Col Moore Mr Byson Harmon? (the Photographer from Banff.) Doug Harvies? (the C.P.R. man in Banff who Russ has met and is so interested in the skiing?) Mr N B. Samson (who lives in Banff has just returned from the Rotary convention in Boston and is over 70 years of age and last year completed his 1000th ascent of Sulphur Mountain to the weather but there where he made observations) Then an English lady, Miss Watts, a silly sort of girl with a high voice named Miss Page and a Miss Joyce, also a Scotchman? from Philadelphia a Mr Somerville and then yesterday Fred Aumbusty? & a Mr Burt, a singer, went with us for the one day.

3 {Printed header} LAKE O'HARA CHALET-BUNGALOW CAMP HECTOR, B. C. {Left aligned, printed: '.................193......'} Pete went with Rudolp Mr Gibbon the C.P.R. Publicity man who has really started this thing. I never thought he would be able to make it but he has and he hasnt walker for 20 years and is nearly 70 himself. Then Dr Gow? a medical man. Major Selby - walker from Calgary - (I don't know much about these, Carl [Ru.y.ies], Harry Portland (the C.P.R ( Photographer at the Banff Springs an the Empress of Australia in winter) Sam Ward from Banff ( the Carpenter wecare so fond of) A Miss Booze and A Miss Houston both very nice ladies, Dan McCowan (the lecturer) and Mr Bain (the C.P.R. man in charge of the Bungalow Camps). Then Mr Palenski (a Chicago Artist) Miss Lynch (the hostess at lake Louise) and the two [?] girls (who were at Lake Louise when you were there & their mother is still so careful of them that they were just allowed to come the first day) these last four only went up to Moraine and drove home again that night.