SPECIAL MOTOR HIGHWAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 5

SPECIAL MOTOR HIGHWAY.

WITH INNS AND GARAGES. Automobiles do not inn well over rough prairie land a> <1 monnta’ns. and the Canadian Gov > nimmt lias td listen to incessant demands from the public for good roads, in which it may be no exaggeration to say more interest is taken than ever war. in tar’ffs or reciprocity. At the proMins time a huge task is being undertaken on what the local slang calls a ‘ rush.” From Halifax to Vancouver Island and through the passes of the Rocky Moan, tains a special motor transomtmental highway is being cut. One section, to be known as the Highway cl the Great Divide, from Banff to Windermere, will form part of a 500 mile circle, running past mountain peak? and through precipitous canyons. Canadians do not stop, however, gt a good road, for in this magnificently wild region they are going to build at convenient intervals mountain inns with adequate garages. This on the Rocky Mountains, when one thinks of ft l any a twenty mile stretch of country road, where it would not be possible to get even a bicycle tyre repaired 1