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- Journal.
Banff. Alta. [Alberta] June 8/43 [1943]
Today went up the Jasper highway
as far as 107 mile. Bruce Mitchell
+ Ernest Young accompanied me
as far as Saskatchewan where
I met the warden Wm. [William] Matthews
The weather was excellent all
day with scattered altus clouds +
a west wind of 5 mph [miles per hour].
Leaving Louise the road climbs
rapidly to Bow Summit where
the country is open spruce +
subalpine meadowland or muskeg.
it there passes downgrade through
pine + spruce woods to the
Saskatchewan where some open
benches partly the result of a
recent fire + a small area.
of aspen woodland exists
For almost 10 miles on each side
of the river crossing the country
is reported to have a very
light snowfall - it thus constitutes
a winter game range of
some importance. Above
the crossing the river parallels
the road [illegible word crossed out] through a wide flat sometimes
gravelly, sometimes marshy
valley bottom. The marshes
are rich in Carex [underlined] etc [etcetera] + are bordered
with spruce muskeg, giving way
to spruce forests where soil
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