CANADIAN INN SHOWS ITS SPIRIT

WITH the Americans lobbying cannon balls about them and the British and Canadian protectors of the besieged village of Newark in Ontario answering back with their own cannon and carbine, Captain Colin Swayze of the Canadian Militia decided it was no time for retreat, but one for red-blooded action.

Glacier National Park

The Old West Meets the Old World in Historic National Park Lodges

For almost a century the magnificent scenery and unique natural features of Glacier National Park have been attracting visitors from all over the world. In the early 1900s the Great Northern Railway built a series of lodges and backcountry chalets in the newly established Glacier National Park, located along the U.S.- Canadian border in northwestern Montana.  

SIR HENRY’S HOME TRULY WAS HIS CASTLE

CANADIAN businessman Sir Henry Pellatt firmly believed in every man’s home being his castle, so when he and Lady Mary decided in 1912 on somewhere new to live, they had plans drawn up for just that – a castle.

WHEN Nevada outlawed gambling in October 1910, the editor of one newspaper that had championed the cause, chortled: “Stilled forever is the click of the roulette wheel, the rattle of the dice and the swish of the cards.”