with other shorter branch lines gradually coming under Government 
     
     control, to their betterment, the whole system gives ready access to 
     
     all of Central and Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This system may truly be called the fairy godmother of the 
     
     Maritime Provinces, for with outstretched arm it has placed the 
     
     five extended fingers of a fostering hand over the important com- 
     
     mercial centres of Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Halifax and Sydney, 
     
     causing them to pulsate with life, and bringing them into intimate 
     
     relation with the great centres of the sister provinces from Atlantic 
     
     to Pacific. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Merely to sit in one of the numerous comfortable trains, and 
     
     observantly tour the main line, is a novel experience, a revelation 
     
     of beauty and an education in itself; but if to that is added a sojourn 
     
     in one or more of the localities best suited for the individual prefer- 
     
     ence of the traveller, the result will be satisfactory and exhilarating. 
     
    
   
   
    
     \Vhile it is true, in a measure, that almost any part of the 
     
     Intercolonial summer country will amply satisfy all general require- 
     
     ments for vacation pleasures, it should be remembered that an 
     
     intelligent choice should be made of a district that is rich in those 
     
     things essential for the enjoyment of those who intend going there. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To this end the present book has been written. It will be 
     
     found accurate and reliable; and a careful perusal of its contents 
     
     will give full information on all points of interest. Through its 
     
     pages are distributed Indian legends, Acadian tales, and stories of 
     
     hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing, and camp, tent and bungalow 
     
     life, etc., embodied in the description of the districts to which such 
     
     incidents properly belong. The natural history, or nature—interest, 
     
     in animal, bird, fish and wild-liower life is a feature of the book that 
     
     must give pleasure to those who go to a country like that described 
     
     to enjoy life in the open. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A comprehensive index is also provided of events, subjects, 
     
     districts, places, persons and things. When the reader has com— 
     
     pleted the first reading of the book, this index will afford ready 
     
     means for turning to those subjects that linger in the memory, that 
     
     enlighten travel and that enhance the pleasure of it; while as a 
     
     practical and every-day guide for things it is necessary to know, the 
     
     same index is sure to be helpful in looking up all necessary infor- 
     
     mation from time to time. 
     
    
   
   
    
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