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Excerpt from The Province of British Columbia, Canada, Its Resources, Commercial Position and Climate Introductory remarks, vancouver island. General description, size, position, harbours, Its lithological character, soil, productiveness, Timber, climate, markets, Wholesale prices current, Retail prices, Rates of wages, Employment for women, esquimalt. Its harbours, graying dock, town, busmess, &c., victoria. 1 Its foundation, growth, present size, business establishments, schools, Institutions and societies, public buildings, surrounding neigh bourhood, N anaimo. Position, harbours, coal mines, trade, saanich, cowichan, chemainus, maple bay, somenos, sooke, islands OF the straits, taxada, the queen charlotte islands. Position, Indians of, fish Oil manufacture, mainland OF british columbia, Extent, boundaries, The Rocky Mountains, Cascade Mountains, Earl Bufferin's description, The harbours, English Bay, Coal Harbour, Port Essington, Waddington Harbour, The rivers - The Fraser, Columbia, Pearl, Thompson, Chilicoten, Lilloet and Nicola, burrard inlet, vancouver, the C. P. R. Terminus. The terminal City, the harbours, commercial position, C. P. R. Works, Future Metropolis. Comparative distances between European and Western sea - ports. Distances from Vancouver, Maury's calculations, ON the, line OF the canadian pacific railway. Yale, Lytton, Country between Yale and Kamloops, kamloops and southern district. Kamloops Lake, Okanagan and Spallumcheen valleys, the Shuswap Lakes, timber, cereals, roots of the district. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
