BRITISH COLUMBIA

British CotumBta is the largest of the Provinces of Canada, its area being 395,000
square miles, or as large as Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island combined, and larger than the combined area of the States of Minnesota, Illinois,
New York, Ohio and the Dakotas. The coast line measures 7,000 miles. The popula-
tion is about 350,000, but the fisheries alone are sufficient to support at least one
million people; the mining industry, timber and general manufactories are in their
infancy, with unlimited possibilities in the future, while the arable lands along the
route of the Grand Trunk Pacific are capable alone of furnishing prosperous homes
for 350,C00 people, about as many more as the entire population of the Province at
present. It seems timely, therefore, in view of the opening of the National Trans-
continental route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, to place before an expectant, land-hungry people the possibilities of Central

British Columbia.

It must be borne in mind that in dealing with a section of country as great as
that served by the new railway in British Columbia—a distance along the main line
of 700 miles, about which no systematic attempt has hitherto been made to collect
and publish reliable information—the subject must be dealt with in a general way. |
While no intentional misrepresentation will be made, it is difficult, in face of results,
however meagre, to overestimate the possibilities of the marvelously rich and climate-
favored land referred to. The statements made are based directly upon the observa-
tions of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway experts who have explored the territory on

different occasions.

In addition to this, facts have been secured and incorporated herein from Goyern-
ment Agents’ reports and equally reliable sources, so that while every care has been
taken to present only definite, accurate statements, it is believed that later investi-
gation and results will show that all claims made herein have been conservatively

set forth.

As later information is received it will be incorporated in further issues of this or
other pamphlets. Any information not covered in such pamphlets will be dealt with,

as far as practicable, upon request to—

R. C. W. LETT, GEO. A. McNICHOLL,
Tourist and Colonization Agent, Asst. General Freight and Pass. Agt.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway,
WINNIPEG, MAN. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.