After the first Montréal to Vancouver passenger train crossed the country in 1886, settlers began to arrive in the newly accessible lands in large numbers. Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith was one of the first eastern-based artists to travel to the West on the new railway. He returned frequently, and enjoyed such success with his Rocky Mountain...

Titled verso in pencil: "Crawford Notch, White Mountains; the track of the great slide from Mount Willy whose summit is seen in the shadow at the right"