. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . leep ever since, whilethe outside world has been going ahead; thatVancouver has come into existence and grown tobe a great city while Barkerville has slept ! Onecannot help thinking that one has slipped back intothe past, and that the twentieth century, with itsautomobiles and aeroplanes, is only a dream. Fancy any one choosing Barkerville to be bornin ! I know a lady in Vancouver, not by any meanselderly, who made this extraordinary choice. Sheused to come down to school in New Westminster,450 miles in the stage, travelling day after day
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . leep ever since, whilethe outside world has been going ahead; thatVancouver has come into existence and grown tobe a great city while Barkerville has slept ! Onecannot help thinking that one has slipped back intothe past, and that the twentieth century, with itsautomobiles and aeroplanes, is only a dream. Fancy any one choosing Barkerville to be bornin ! I know a lady in Vancouver, not by any meanselderly, who made this extraordinary choice. Sheused to come down to school in New Westminster,450 miles in the stage, travelling day after dayover that famous old road, through the Eraser RiverCanon and all—for there was no in thosedays. Just think of a young girl undertaking sucha journey each time she went home for the holidays. But a Canadian girl is able to look after herself, and if she has been brought up in the country she can walk or ride or climb with the best, and be none the less womanly and charming for it either. * * * * * At the hotel one of our survey party turns up,.
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