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connection is had by cable with Victoria and other cities and towns on
Vancouver Island, and by land lines with all points in the Fraser Valley,
and the City of Seattle. A recently constructed water tunnel provides a
water power sufficient to develop 300,000 horsepower. The city is well
supplied with various news and trade publications.

New Westminster is situated on the Fraser River, about 16 miles
from the mouth, and 12 miles from Vancouver. It is the centre of the
salmon canning industry and enjoys a big share of the lumber trade.
Being the depot for a large agricultural country, New Westminster market
is the most important in the province—the farmers’ mart and clearing
house. The city was the capital of the Crown Colony of British Columbia
before confederation, and was destroyed by fire in 1898, hut through the
energy of its citizens, it has been rebuilt and greatly improved. Among
the public buildings are the penitentiary and the provincial asylum for
the insane. The City owns and operates an electric light plant, and has
an excellent water supply, and electric street railway and telephone systems.
It is well supplied with newspapers. A fine steel railway and traffic bridge,
built by the provincial government at a cost of $1,000,000, spans the
Fraser River at New Westminster. There is an inter-urban electric rail-
way connecting the city with Vancouver, and a branch line of the Canadian
Pacific Railway connects it with the main line at Westminster Junction.
The British Columbia Electric Railway Company is building an electric
line of railway from Westminster to Chilliwack, a distance of 60 miles,
which passes through the fertile land of the Delta of the Fraser River.
An event of annual interest is the holding of a Provincial Exhibition of
Agricultural and Industrial Products, which attracts exhibitors from all
parts of the province. The population is about 14,000.

Amongst the other places on the coast which are fast coming into
prominence in the northern part of the province 'is Prince Rupert, a port
of call for all northern lines of steamers. The town is beautifully laid out
on scientific lines. Its present population is about 4,000.

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