To the Town that Bears Your Name : A Young Woman’s Journey to Nordegg in 1912

Card covers, 112 pages, 9x9 in - 15x23 cm, B&W photographs.

Cover corners lightly worn. Spine bumped at head.

Martin Nordegg (1868-1948, founder of Nordegg, Alberta) was a German entrepreneur who partnered with Sir William Mackenzie in the early 1900s to stake coal mining claims in the Rocky Mountains. In 1912, Nordegg took his 14-year-old daughter, Marcelle, on a cross-country journey from Toronto to the Rocky Mountains. This volume contains Nordegg’s first-person account of the trip for Marcelle. He describes the train ride to Rocky Mountain House, the pack horse trip to Nordegg, and finally the trek south over Pipestone Pass to Banff. The book’s cowboys, First Nations guides, and businesspeople endure train derailments, narrowly avoid falling down mountainsides, and wake up to find their food stolen in the night. Throughout, Nordegg alternates between praising Marcelle’s fortitude in unfamiliar territory and lamenting the “uncivilized” conditions in which they travel. Forty photos depicting the trip’s geography and participants support the text. A 1997 newspaper clipping regarding Nordegg is laid in

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