. Sunset Canada, British Columbia and beyond; an account of its settlement, its progress from the early days to the present, including a review of the Hudson's Bay Company, its amazing variety of climate, its charm of landscape, its unique cities and attractive towns and their industries, a survey of the different peoples to be found there, including the Japanese and Doukhobors, an analysis of what it offers in opportunity to the home seeker, the agriculturist, the business man, the sportsman and the traveller. r workers on the trans-conti-nental railway at the time of construction, and now le
. Sunset Canada, British Columbia and beyond; an account of its settlement, its progress from the early days to the present, including a review of the Hudson's Bay Company, its amazing variety of climate, its charm of landscape, its unique cities and attractive towns and their industries, a survey of the different peoples to be found there, including the Japanese and Doukhobors, an analysis of what it offers in opportunity to the home seeker, the agriculturist, the business man, the sportsman and the traveller. r workers on the trans-conti-nental railway at the time of construction, and now learnthat it is too late, that Canada must remain a whitemans country. There are Italians, Swedes, Norwe-gians, Portuguese and Spaniards, all more or less distinc-tive amid the British population. All came in the firstinstance for the same reason, or with a few notable ex-ceptions this is true. They like the free life of the wilds,and in bettering their condition they are glad to workdiligently, holding on to the roseate prospects for thefuture — at least for the future of their children whoare receiving what they could not have received at are a few Englishmen who came because they pre-fer to spend their years of retirement in the locality thatpleased them from the report of others, or when theysaw it during a tour of British dominions it pleased themmore than any other place they had seen. The homes ofsome of the latter are miniatures of English country resi- Douglas Fir, on Island The Island Highway 5S dences. At least, there is one large room, the floors ofwhich are covered with bear-skin rugs and the walls aredecorated with deer, elk and moose heads with spreadingantlers. There is a large fireplace in which logs crackleand my English gentleman seems to be thoroughly enjoy-ing himself in an atmosphere of a century ago — withthe exception that he reads by electric lights, for thepeople of Vancouver Island have learned how to harnessthe waterfalls that
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