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CHAPTER XIX. 

 VANCOUVER AND VICINITY 





VANCOUVER 



HT'HE City of Vancouver is the terminus of the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway and the Canadian Northern, while the Great Nor- 

 thern and Northern Pacific also have trains running in to 

 it. The B. C. Electric Railway has a line running through the 

 Fraser Valley for a distance of over sixty miles. 



There are hotels of all sorts and descriptions, from the pala- 

 tial Hotel Vancouver (the C. P. R. Hotel) down to the modest 

 boarding house, where rooms and meals can be obtained at a very 

 moderate rate. 



There are numerous sporting stores where rods and tackle of 

 almost every description can be purchased. Flies tied to order 

 can also be obtained. 



As a fishing centre there are few places the equal of Vancou- 

 ver. Not only can good salmon fishing be obtained right in the 

 harbour itself and many other places in the immediate vicinity, 

 but there are at least nine good streams in which can be caught 

 trout of all descriptions, which can be reached in time to get a 

 good day's fishing and return to town the same night. Some of 

 these streams are best reached by motor car, but they can all 

 be got to by either train or B. C. Electric car. These streams 

 are the Capilano, Seymour, Coquitlam, Lillooet, Kanaka, Serpen- 

 tine, Nicomekel, Stave, and Salmon Rivers. They are all men- 

 tioned separately. 



VANCOUVER HARBOUR 



The harbour itself has at times fishing, which, in many parts 

 of the world would be considered something wonderful. 



Spring Salmon can be caught from the middle of November 

 pretty well on until May, the best months being December, 

 January and February. The best water is off Brockton Point, 

 opposite the Woodman's Arch in the Park and off West Van- 

 couver Pier. There is also some good water just off the first 

 point this side of Hastings. Except off West Vancouver, the 

 best water is on the south side of the inlet, though an occasional 

 fish may be caught off the mouth of the Capilano and also on 

 the north side just inside the Narrows. 



In July a small run of cohoes comes in. The fish are usually 

 of small size. They are generally caught just outside the Nar- 

 rows on the Lighthouse side. 



