‘OPPORTUNITY TOWN’

FORT FRASER

British Columbia’s Most
Promising City of the Interior

HAT WEALTH LIES IN THE WAKE OF RAILROADS is
no idle phrase. The history of the Canadian West stamps
this a truism. What the Canadian Pacific Railway has
done for Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Port Arthur, Fort
William, and in fact most Canadian cities, the Grand
Trunk Pacific and other big lines are doing for the central
sections of British Columbia. The progress of Fort Fraser,

on the main line of the G. T. P., between Prince Rupert and the middle of the
province, will be rapid. At this writing (September, 1911) over 110 miles of the
G. T. P. transcontinental line have been constructed inland from the Pacific
Coast. The next step—and an easy one—will carry the rails through the rich
section of which Fort Fraser is the centre and directly through the townsite
itself. Trains will be running to Fort Fraser early in 1913, or sooner. The
grading camps are rapidly approaching the town. In view of the fact that
the G. T. P. Company is under guarantee to the Federal Government to have its
entire road, from ocean to ocean, in operation by June, 1914, it is obvious that
long before that time the British Columbia section will be engaged in active
traffic. The 110 miles from Prince Rupert inland are even now being traversed
continually by busy trains engaged in public business. Pressing demands for
land areas in the Nechaco and Bulkley Valley districts impel the railway peo-
ple to hasten their road toward these tracts, and to this end most satisfactory
progress is being made.

Just now, therefore, seems the most advantageous time to make investment
in Fort Fraser townsite land. The G. T. P. construction crews are within
hailing distance, as it were; the Government of British Columbia has made its
selection of the sections legally due it and settlers are literally pouring into
the farming lands roundabout. In the logical and hard-headed practical sense
Fort Fraser is a model townsite, destined by nature and by railway traffic to
be the pivotal point in central British Columbia. It is handiest to Prince Ru-
pert, the big, safe and easily accessible harbor on the coast—first port of call
for all shipping from the Orient, as well as headquarters for the fast-increasing
Alaskan trade—is the depot and entrepot for vast agricultural and horticultural
tracts and a natural distributing point by water and by rail. Few, in-
deed, if any, townsites of recent establishment possess such natural advantages.

“A good investment is a good speculation.”—JOHN JACOB ASTOR.