South Fork of the Fraser and

Canoe River Valleys

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The valley of the South Fork of Fraser River to
the bend where the river swings south-east to join
the Nechako at Prince George occupies part of the
great intermontane trench, with its series of con-
nective valleys east of the Rockies. Canoe River,
the upper part of which is in Fort George Division,
also occupying part of this trench, drains to Colum-
bia River. Pre-emptions occupied in these valleys
are recorded at the office of the Government Agent
at Prince George, to whom also applications for
land purchases or leases within the division are
made. Surveys made within the division to the
vicinity of the 121st meridian are shown on Pre-
emptors’ Map 384, Fort George Sheet; those east-
ward and in the upper part of Canoe Valley on
Pre-emptors’ Map 3H, Tete Jaune Sheet; and in
the lower part of Canoe Valley on Pre-emptors’
Map 3s, North Thompson Sheet. That portion of
Fort George Division in vicinity of Prince George
west from the Willow River basin and the bend of
the Fraser north to Giscome Landing and north to
the Pacific-Arctic drainage-divide is described in a
pamphlet entitled “ Fort George Land Recording
Division, Central and Western Portions, Land
Series No. 35”; the northerly portion of the divi-
sion, north of the Pacific-Arctie divide, formerly
included in Peace River Division, is described in a
pamphlet entitled ‘Peace River Division, West of
the Rockies, Land Series No. 26.”

Prince George, administrative centre of the
division, at the confluence of the South Fork of
the Fraser and Nechako, incorporated 1915, is a
well-equipped modern city, with every business and
profession represented, with its own electrie light
and water systems, well-graded streets and side-
walks, good educational, social, and other facilities.
It has banks, schools, churches, theatres, hotels,
and all business and other requirements of a
modern city.

Prince George has a very central and strategic
location, the hub of a rich agricultural, lumbering,
and industrial area. The Canadian National Rail-
way, of which it is a divisional point, provides
transportation east and west. Prince George is
about midway between Prince Rupert and Edmon-
ton, 467 miles from Prince Rupert, 489 miles from
Edmonton, and 481 miles from Vancouver by the
Pacific Great Eastern Railway, which now termi-