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111 Lake Louise Drive, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
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Menu cover shows the "Kicking Horse River."
On the back cover the following information appears: "Many visitors to the Canadian Rockies ask how the Kicking Horse River got its name and many answers are given - some of them based upon the credulity of the questioner. Even historians who have dealt at length with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway differ among themselves. The generally accepted version is that James Hector, geologist with the survey party, was kicked by his own mount after helping to rescue a packhorse from an eddy of the swift-running river. Indian guides are said to have suggested the name. History neither confirms nor denies the local tales that Dr. Hector was actually kicked into the river. The idyllic scene pictured here is three or four miles west of Field, B.C., junction point on the mountain highway connecting Lake Louise with Emerald Lake Chalet and Yoho Valley Lodge, in the heart of spectacular country filled with unafraid wild life, leaping torrents, I'ocky crags. Mount Field, in the background, has an altitude of 8,655 feet."
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Chateau Lake Louise, Luncheon, June 26, 1953
111 Lake Louise Drive, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Menu cover shows the "Kicking Horse River."
On the back cover the following information appears: "Many visitors to the Canadian Rockies ask how the Kicking Horse River got its name and many answers are given - some of them based upon the credulity of the questioner. Even historians who have dealt at length with the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway differ among themselves. The generally accepted version is that James Hector, geologist with the survey party, was kicked by his own mount after helping to rescue a packhorse from an eddy of the swift-running river. Indian guides are said to have suggested the name. History neither confirms nor denies the local tales that Dr. Hector was actually kicked into the river. The idyllic scene pictured here is three or four miles west of Field, B.C., junction point on the mountain highway connecting Lake Louise with Emerald Lake Chalet and Yoho Valley Lodge, in the heart of spectacular country filled with unafraid wild life, leaping torrents, I'ocky crags. Mount Field, in the background, has an altitude of 8,655 feet."