CHAPTER XVI 



1887-1893 



Visits Vancouver Island to Study the Fauna and Flora — 

 Ascent of Mount Arrowsmith — Alberni — Cape Beale — 

 Returns to Ottawa by C.P.R. — Appointed Assistant 

 Director and Naturalist to the Geological Survey — 

 Visits Prince Edward Island, 1888 — Lower Mainland, 

 Okanagan District, Shuswap Lake and Gold Range, 

 B.C., 1889— Large Collections Made for Museum — 

 Another Visit to British Columbia, 1890 — West Koote- 

 nays and Eastward through the Selkirks — Visits Dis- 

 trict about Banff, 1891 — Mountain Climbing — Photo- 

 graphing Trees near Lake Erie and Obtaining Specimens 

 of the Wood, 1892 — Collecting on the Lower Mainland 

 of British Columbia and on Vancouver Island, 1893 — ^ 

 Many Interesting Incidents. 



BY this time, I had got a fairly comprehensive view of the 

 Botany of Canada, as far as known and, having spent some 

 years working in the east and one year in the Rocky Moun- 

 tians, I decided to make a beginning for a more comprehensive sur- 

 vey of the whole flora of the Dominion. I decided, therefore, to 

 spend the summer of 1887 on Vancouver Island. With this end in 

 view, I took my youngest son, William T., with me and we started 

 on our own railroad, the Canadian Pacific, from Ottawa and 

 travelled to the terminus at Port Moody. There, we took the 

 steamer for Victoria and landed before the middle of April. The 

 Rev. George Taylor, whom I knew, met us in Victoria and invited 

 us to go to Cedar Hill, where he was rector. I did so and my son 

 and I lived part of our time in the school-master's house at that 

 point. We made many excursions to various places, going to 

 Gordon Head, Mt. Tolmie, Cedar Hill, Lost Lake and other 

 localities but the places mentioned were our chief points of ex- 

 cursions. 



