PREFACE. 



To be quite accurate in the use of the title that I have selected, 

 I must quality it by stating that I did not live for fifteen 

 consecutive years on the Pacific Slope of North America. I 

 spent the majority of each of fifteen years out there, making 

 British Columbia a land of great beauty and of promising future 

 my temporary home for some years. The ocean I crossed 

 some thirty times, and the Continent of North America a few 

 odd times oftener. 



The first tour or five visits were exclusively devoted to big 

 game shooting. Sport such as I enjoyed in the "seventies" 

 and early "eighties" is no longer to be obtained nothing 

 approaching it and for this reason, if for no other, these pages 

 will, I hope, be of interest to fellow sportsmen. So far as 

 record trophies are concerned I have spared no trouble to make 

 this volume up-to-date, and as much as possible free from 

 mistakes. The second half of the book is devoted to life on the 

 Pacific Slope. These chapters contain personal reminiscences 

 and experiences which will perhaps assist the casual visitor or 

 the stay-at-home reader to gam an insight into the practical 

 issues of life on the frontier. To those who propose to make 

 " the Slope " their future home they may possibly convey useful 



