the explorer and his intrepid crew made the 

 voyage, became the forerunners of the countless 

 giant freighters to come up the Straits of Juan 

 de Fuca and Georgia to carry away huge stores 

 of wheat, lumber, minerals, fruit and paper pulp. 

 The dense heavy timber which skirts the 

 coast perhaps -first induced exploitation and 

 settlement, and to the creation of lumber mills 

 Vancouver owes its industrial birth whilst the 

 shipment of their products brought about its 

 development as a port. The steel of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway reached it in 1886 when it 

 became incorporated as a city, achieving a 

 prestige which it has steadily increased ever 

 since. 



An Unrivalled Location 



The city has a setting of beauty and utility. 

 Located on the Strait of Georgia, amid the 

 unrivalled scenery of the Pacific coast, and 

 sheltered by Vancouver Island, it has an even 

 temperature in which ice and snow are practically 

 unknown. In its possession of fine streets, hand- 

 some public buildings, parks and open spaces, it 

 compares favorably with any city on the con- 

 tinent. It has a population of 180,000. Four 

 steam railways and an electric line radiate from 

 it providing a thorough service to all parts of 

 America, whilst regular steamer sailings are 

 established to Japan, China, Australia, New 

 Zealand, the Philippines, Victoria, Prince Rupert, 

 Nanaimo, etc. 



The industrial life of Vancouver centres 

 about Industrial Island, a reclaimed body of land 

 in False Creek, forty-two acres in extent, and a 

 hive of throbbing commercial activity. The 

 project of reclamation in the heart of the city's 

 business district was undertaken and completed 

 by the government, under whose control it is 

 still managed. Industrial sites there have dock- 

 age for deep-sea vessels, railway trackage, 

 electric light and power, water and gas supply 

 and sewerage. Industries located comprise 

 nearly every phase of manufacture including 

 ceramics, paint, glass, cement, bricks, steel, 

 boilers, engines, and ship machinery, fish can- 

 neries, pickling and bottling, water power wheels, 

 roofing, refining, talc products, sheet metal, 

 ventilating and blowing equipment, hide tan- 

 nery, electric switch fuses and fixtures, saws, 

 carbolic acid gas, aerated waters, etc. 



On the north and south banks of the creek 

 the lumber industries have their giant plants, 

 and the shipyards are busy on contracts from all 

 parts of the globe. Here too steel and metal 

 furnaces are to be found engaged upon an 

 industry which is assuming important propor- 

 tions on the Pacific coast. 



A Deep-Sea, Ail-Year Port 



Vancouver as a port can compete on equal 

 terms with any on the Pacific Coast, whilst 

 improvements are under way to vastly increase 



its accommodations and facilities, this com- 

 prising among other innovations the construction 

 of two new piers at a cost of $6,000,000 each. 

 Its importance as an export centre is growing 

 continuously and ships from all maritime 

 countries are to be seen in its harbor. 



In the year 1920, its exports to the United 

 States alone totalled $53,000,000, of which more 

 than $11,500,000 was made up of minerals, 

 $10,000,000 of pulp and paper, and the balance 

 of lumber, shingles, canned fruits, and fish. 



Vancouver is yearly finding greater favor 

 among foreign countries as an outlet for capital 

 which is reflected in the fact that United States 

 financiers and business men have invested more 

 than $200,000,000 in developing the latent wealth 

 of the province, the greater part of which is 

 contributary in some manner to the coast city, 

 whilst the amount of British capital exceeds this. 

 A total of 722 new companies were incorporated 

 in British Columbia during 1920, the majority 

 of which were tributary in their activities to 

 the growth of the city. 



Vancouver is in an enviable position with a 

 future of commercial and national importance 

 in her many natural advantages and at the 

 hands of her progressive people. With the 

 expansion of the Canadian west, she should 

 experience a corresponding development as their 

 port of outlet, a growth the extent of which is 

 indicated in her short history. 



Immigration State by State 



In the year 1920, the United States contrib- 

 uted to Canada's population a total of 48,866 

 new citizens, of whom it may be fairly estimated 

 the major portion went on farms. For although 

 immigration to the Dominion from the United 

 States has fallen off heavily from the figures of 

 pre-war years, due to the disturbed conditions 

 prevailing throughout the years of hostilities 

 and the readjustment of the post-war period, 

 those closely in touch with the situation declare 

 that it is classes other than the agricultural that 

 have effected the decline and that Canada is 

 attracting as many United States farmers to. 

 her fertile lands as she ever did. 



This statement would seem to be borne out 

 by the records of homestead entries on the part 

 of United States citizens, and the numbers who 

 in the past few years have purchased privately 

 owned lands or improved farms. So, although 

 Canada has perhaps reason for regret in that 

 she is not getting from the United States the 

 quota of citizens she had become accustomed to, 

 after all what the Dominion primarily has 

 urgent need of is agriculturalists,, and she has 

 cause for gratification in the evidence that the 

 flow of these is maintaining its volume. 



A citizen who comes from across the border 

 to make a new home in the Dominion is broadly 

 regarded by the Dominion authorities and the 



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