Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
Page 132
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Called on Mr. Norton and Mrs., 225-227 Peel St. and purchased 12 photos of the Rocky Mts. on the C.P.R.R. They are to be silver prints and will be mailed to me. I have a list of these and of others that I did not purchase. Then wrote postals to Emma, Le Vene, Phil, Albert and Wenton. At the Grand Hotel Mount Royal. Still snowing hard at Ciron. Spent the late afternoon at the Canadian Nat. R.R. station and had supper here with red wine at $1.60. The wine was poor, and the soup not much better. As usual the Canadian French are poor cooks. Oh what a come down this is from the handiwork of the Canadian Pacific. A Domini came in for supper, crossed himself before and after, and the waiters spoke to him by name and gestures in full sympathy. How nice when genuine is the system and knows no better. Montreal was different from the western Provinces as can be, and if I could give four cent