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Called on Mr. Norton and Mrs. [illegible], 225-
227 Peel St and purchased 12 photos of the
Redy Cats on the C.P.R.R. They are to be
silver prints and will be mailed to me. I
dare a list of those and of others that I did not
purchase.
Then wrote postals to Emma, Le Vere, Phil,
Albert and Newton. At the grand hotel Mount Royal.
Still snowing hard at Caron.
Spent the late afternoon at the Canadian
Nat R.R. station and had supper here on the red
mine at 160. The mine was poor, and the supper
not much better. As usual the Canadian Franch
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 ones
and djestures in full sympathy. How nice when
genuine is the system and knows no better.
Montreal was different from the western Pro-
vinces as can be, and if I could give two cents