
A GLIMPSE OF THE PORT OF VANCOUVER, ON THE BRINK OF THE GREAT LONE NORTH 
CRUISING THE FJORDS OF 
NORTH PACIFIC 
With Inland Trips for Variety 
BY D. W. AND A. 8S. IDDINGS 
Fellows of the American Geographical Society and of the Royal Geographical Society 
I.—OvER THE BRINK OF THE NORTH 
B. C., ‘‘Here be- 
fore Christ”—and 
still here—is the 
story of the Hud- 
son’s Bay Com- 
pany in British 
North America, as 
naively told by its 
Inittals: ah hese 
“Ad Vemieurersror 
England,” feverish for fur, first planted 
foot in Canada in 1670, and, traveling 
through the untrodden Western wilderness, 
pitched trading posts at the centers the 
savagery of the land frequented. Two 
hundred years of uninterrupted sway and 
the white settler came and then the railroad 
and colonization. Settlers’ shacks were 
raised alongside the Indians’ tepees, just 

outside the post’s stockade, where the 
necessary flour and bacon could be bartered 
for. Thus, in the more favored places, 
villages grew, which here and there, along 
the railway’s course, through the years have 
expanded into cities. Before the pioneer’s 
trusty rifle, the toot of the iron horse and 
the sightless settler’s. shack fur fled, and 
the trappers and traders followed in its 
wake. To meet the changed conditions 
general stores in the villages and depart- 
mental stores in the cities have replaced the 
old trading posts, although fur is still traded, 
when offered, at each. 
At Vancouver, the first city and port on 
the North Pacific, is one of those old 
Hudson’s Bay posts that has outgrown fur 
as a staple and evolved a modern mercantile 
establishment with handsome buildings and 
