land companies, are located here. A Canadian
Home for the International Editorial Association
is partly built, but is unlikely to be completed.

A creamery was established in 1920 and approxi-
mately 400 dairy cattle throughout the district
supply it. The town is connected with telegraph
and telephone with a. large part of the district and

outside points, and has good roads radiating in all

directions; the Government, through the Depart-
ments of Public Works and Education, having kept
pace with the rapid development, extending roads
‘in all directions and establishing schools in various
cemtres of settlemenit. Vanderhoof is the depot
not only for the Nechako Valley and the outlying

settlements, Chilko, Mapes, Greer and Mud Valleys, -

Dog Creek, Nechako, and -Stony Creek, but also
for the Stuart River basin, with its long valley
stretching 200 miles north, and connective water-
ways, a road running from Vanderhoof, 40 miles
to Fort St. James at the south of Stuart Lake, and
roads reach west to Fort Fraser and the Hndako
Valley, also to the east end of Francois Lake, east
to Prince George, and south-east via the Telegraph
Trail via Blackwater and Quesnel to the Cariboo
Road.

Burns Lake, a town of about 300 people on the
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, 82 miles west, depot
' for the Francois-Ootsa Lake District and the wide

lake-plateau district in the division south of the.

railroad, and for the southern Babine Lake District
to the north, connected by road with Francois and
Ootsa Lakes and with Babine Lake, is the second
town in importance in the division. It is built on

flats north of Burns Lake, alongside the railroad,

at altitude of 2,303 feet, and has good general and
other stores, hotels, churches, school, bank, garage,
pool-rooms, business offices, resident physician; in
fact, is fairly well equipped with business and
social facilities. ‘A stage service plies to Francois
Lake, connecting with the ferry service leading to
the roads to the south, reaching to the Ootsa Lake
and other settlements. The Tatalpin Mining Com-
pany, engaged in developing a mine west of 'Tatal-
pin Lake south of Babine Lake, ships its supplies
from here. Bi,

Fort Fraser—where pre-emptions, purchases, or
leases of Crown land located in this district are to
be applied for at the office of the Government
Agent—is a small town, 25 miles west of Vander-
hoof, 57 miles east of Burns Lake, at altitude of
2,241 feet, a short distance east of Fraser Lake,

on Nechako River, and the railroad, built about 144

miles south-east of the old Hudson’s Bay trading-

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Nautley Indian village. ‘The town has stores, post-
office, school, churches, telegraph and telephone
offices, and a sawmill, which cuts for the district
supply. . About 200 Indians live at the village near
the Hudson’s Bay post, now abandoned. Wndako,
altitude 2,337 feet, 22 miles west of Fort Fraser,
55 miles east of Burns Lake, is a divisional point
of the railway, a small town of about 100 people,
with two or three stores, hotel, school, church,
restaurants, ete. A road connects it with points
east and west on the railroad, and a road leads
south to the settlement at the east end of Fran-
ecois Lake.

Palling, altitude 2,311 feet, 10 miles west of
Burns Lake, is a small town, which has a local
sawmill, hotel, and general store, post and telegraph
offices, and school, and is the depot for the near-by
settlement, in which stock-raising and mixed farm-
ing is carried on, and musk-rat farming was
recently started on some Swamp land in the vicin-
ity. Rose Lake, 6 miles farther west, has a store,
post-office, and school. Settlers’ roads connect these
points, also Decker Lake, where there is a school,
with the near-by settlements on either side of the
railroad. There are in addition stores at Mapes, 15
miles south-east of Vanderhoof by motor-road, also
a school and post-office; a post-office and school at
Chilko, 14 miles by road north-east of Vanderhoof ;
a school and post-office at Nechako, on Nulki Lake,
11 miles by road from Vanderhoof; two stores,
school, and post-office at Hulatt, 18 miles from
Vanderhoof on the railroad; and a store and. post-
office, also real-esta'te and notary’s office, at Engen,
near which a settlement with a number of Menno-
nites is located, 11 miles east of Fort Fraser, 14
miles west of Vanderhoof. Fort St. James, 40
miles north from Vanderhoof by road at the south
end of Stuart Lake, has ‘two general stores in
addition to the Hudson’s Bay post and a sub-
mining recorder’s office, and an Indian’ village
adjoining, with about 250 Indians. A Roman
Catholic Mission, which has outlying missions on

Babine Lake, is established here.

The larger Indian reserves and villages in the

district are those at Stony Creek, Fort St. James,

Nautley, and Stellako. The Indians, numerous
when the fur-traders came to the district over a
century ago—the post of the Hudson’s Bay Com-

have since dwindled in number and the villages
now have from 200 to 250 residents. Formerly
- the natives depended entirely upon fishing and
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