HOMEWARD BOUND

All too soon it was time to begin our return home. Our route took us southward on the western side of the Rockies, where we visited the Radium Hot Springs and Canyons made by the Kootenay River.

Kimberley BC was a coal mining town in the beginning, but the village prospered even more as an Alpine-style resort. By the early 1970's it became known as the "Bavarian city of the Rockies". The central business section still retains its Alpine flavour.

Jenn and Rob enjoyed our visit to Fort Steele Pioneer Village with its frontier town and museum of the past. After a side trip to Cranbrook, we proceeded through the Crowsnest Pass and past the Frank Landslide into Alberta and onward to Winnipeg once more. Once there, we made another side trip due south to Minto North Dakota in search of some McCannell/Fergusson/Ross descendants. [Our success came a month or two after we arrived home, and the records were placed in The Ross-ter.] A drive late at night brought us back to Ontario's Lake of the Woods at the end of July. Click on the map of Canada to obtain a general perspective of our return trip to Toronto.