SUMMER TREK
VISITORS TO BANFF NATIONAL PARK. OTTAWA. The annual summer trek of youth of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies is under way again. A chain of twelve hostels extend from the Park to the E.P. Ranch at High River, Alberta. The youth hostels idea began in Europe in 1911, and has since developed into an international status. In 1930 hostels were opened in England, and the movement spread to Canada in 1933, and to the United States in 1934. In 1937 Canada was the twentieth country to be admitted to the International Youth Hostels Association. The aim of the youth hostels is to aid young people to enjoy hiking and cycling; to enable youth to find wholesome companionship along the road, travelling inexpensively, and acquiring a knowledge of their neighbour’s land and customs, as well as their own. One of the codes of the hikers is that they pledge themselves to leave the countryside- unmarred as a result of their travel in it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 5
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166SUMMER TREK Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 5
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