This is the Canadian Northern Railway public timetable, effective June 14, 1913.
These timetables were made available to the public to plan their travels, understand where the railway went, and how much a trip would cost. Today it’s all online, but back in 1913… not so much.
Regrettably a few pages are missing from the latter part of the timetable.
The timetable advertises “150,000 Free Homesteads near Canadian Northern Lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.” The railway was gifted land as part of its agreements with Canada and the provinces to build lines, and it wanted customers, so… free land!
In 1913 they were still building to Vancouver, as shown in the map below. The solid lines are “lines under construction”, the solid-dashed lines are “lines in operation”, and the dashed lines are “lines projected” aka maybe never actually built.
The “last spike” for the Canadian Northern’s transcontinental line was driven on January 23, 1915 near Basque, BC. I saw the plaque at that site 104 years later.
Full credit to Paul Lantz for scanning this timetable. He has many other timetables on his site and many great photos as well.
Have a look through the timetable… there are lots of interesting ads for steamships, hotels, and connections to other railways.