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"

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...