Royalty arrived.
They gathered in the streets and joined in the procession. They gave
the Prince the hearty greeting of good-fellows. They were as good
friends of his as anybody there. They did, in fact, give us a
foretaste of what we were to expect when the Prince went to the United
States.

There were the usual functions. They took place high on a hill, from
which the Prince could look down upon the blue waters of the linked
lakes, the many factory chimneys, the smoke of which threw a quickening
sense of human endeavour athwart the scene, and the great jack-knife
girder bridge, that is the railway connection between Canada and
America, but above the usual functions the visit to "Soo" had items
that made it particularly interesting.

He went to the great lock that carries the interlake traffic. He
crossed from one side of it to the other, and then stood out on the
lock gate, while it was opened to allow the passage of several small
vessels. From here he went to the Algoma Railway, at the head of the
canal, and in a special car was taken to the rapids that tumble down in
foam between the two countries.

The train was brought to a standstill at the international boundary,
where two sentries, Canadian and American, face each other, and where
there was another big crowd, this time all American, to give him a
cheer.

He then spent some time visiting the paper mill that helps to make
"Soo" rich. He went over it department by department, asking many
questions and showing that the processes fascinated him intensely. In
the same way he went through the steel works, and was again intrigued
by the sight of "things doing." It was, as he said himself, one of the
most interesting days he had spent in the Dominion.

III

"Soo" let us into a wonderful tract of country.

Still in the sumptuous C.P.R. train, we swung north over the Algoma
Railway track into a land so wildly magnificent and yet so lonely, that
one felt that the railway line must have been built by poets for
poets--we could not imagine it thriving on anything else.

As a matter of fact, it does link up rich mining and other territory,
and, in time, will open a land of equal value, but just now its chief
asset is scenery.

The scenery is superb. Its hills are huge and battlemented. They leap
up sheer above the train, menacing it; they drop down starkly, leaving
the line clinging to a ledge above a white, angry stream on a white
rock bed. They cr