BRITISH COLUMBIA 5

TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION.

In no part of the world is there so large a trade per capita as in British
Columbia, this proportion increasing with active development. Returns

for 1909 show a total trade of $43,000,000, made up of $21,000,000 imports
and $22,000,000 exports.

The leading articles exported are fish, coal, gold, silver, copper, lead,
timber, masts, spars, furs and skins, whale products, fish oil, hops and
fruit. The United States takes a large share of the exported coal, and
immense quantities of lumber are shipped to Great Britain, South Africa
China, Japan, India, Mexico, South America, and Australia. To Great
Britain, Germany, Eastern Canada, the United States, Hawaiian Islands,
Australia and Japan a large proportion of canned and pickled salmon

Shaughnessy Heights, Vancouver’s splendid residential district.

is shipped. The prairie provinces to the east are always customers for

every class of fruit, fish, rough and dressed lumber. This inter-provincial

trade is due to the facilities provided by the Canadian Pacific Railway,

and the same may be said in part of the export trade, the Company pro-

viding a magnificent fleet of steamships running to Japan, China, New -
Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii.

The merchant marine of the province is steadily increasing. Naviga-
tion returns for 1909 show 5000 sea- going vessels sailed from B. C. ports
and that 20,000 vessels were engaged in the coasting trade, representing in
all 9,000,000 tons of shipping.

The Canadian Pacific is the principal railway in British Columbia,
operating 1700 miles on two trunk lines with several branches. . The main
line enters the province via the Kicking Horse Pass, the second by way
of the Crow’s Nest Pass. Steamboat connections are made on the inland