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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Engraving Company. Portland, Oregon 

 VIEW OF THE ANNEX OF THE CANADIAN NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, VANCOUVER, 1910 

 This view shows the carloads from Summerland, Kelowna, Vernon and Victoria, British Columbia, besides 

 the carloads from Medford, Oregon, and Wenatchee, Washington. Plate exhibits are shown in the center 

 of the aisle running the full length of the building. The building was 350 feet long. 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Engraving Company, Portland, Oregon 



FIFTH PRIZE DISTRICT DISPLAY, WON BY J. E. LACEY, SALMON ARM, B. C. 

 CANADIAN NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, VANCOUVER, B. C, 1910 



Photo by Frank Palmer, Spokcine l:ii<^r<i^'ui'^ /m' A inrncmi l:i\i^raving Company, Spokane 



GOLDENDALE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT DISPLAY AT THIRD NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 

 SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1910 



"I am asked to give on behalf of this 

 Province to our friends from abroad a 

 most hearty welcome, and most readily 

 do I undertake that task. I think that in 

 this Province we are regarded as a 

 hospitable people, and I think that the 

 strangers who have come among us 

 will leave with the impression that they 

 have been in the house of friends." 



The Premier continued that nothing- 

 had been done in the Province which 

 showed what British Columbia was capa- 

 ble of more than the development of 

 fruit-growing. Only a few years ago 

 people in the East had the impressoin 

 that British Columbia was nothing more 

 than a huge mountainous section. It 

 was not then considered as a place where 

 fruit could be successfully grown from a 

 commercial standpoint, but nothing was 

 so typical of its potentialities as the de- 

 velopment of fruit-growing. Ten years 

 ago unknown as a fruit-growing coun- 

 try; today in competition with all parts 

 of the British Empire carrjnng off the 

 highest awards. (Applause.) That was 

 enough to show what British Columbia 

 might do in any line of commercial de- 

 ^•elopment, when there were the means 

 and the men behind it. Just as they had 

 done in fruit-growing they would do in 

 other lines. 



"Before I resume my seat,'' said the 

 Premier, "there is one name I must 

 mention in this connection. It is that 

 of your fellow-townsman, ]\Ir. Maxwell 

 Smith — (hear, hear) — to whom great 

 credit is due for the part he has taken in 

 bringing about this exhibition. And I 

 am sure the warmest thanks of the peo- 

 ple of this country will be accorded to 

 the man who has done such a noble as 

 well as such a useful task." (Applause.) 



Hon. Mr. Bowser, Acting Minister of 

 Agriculture and Finance, said that while 

 it was with pleasure he had come to take 

 part in opening the show, his pleasure 

 knew no bounds whe.n he arrived in that 

 building and saw the great concourse of 

 visitors and the magnificent display of 

 fruit. The management had brought to- 

 gether an apple show of which any coun- 

 try might be proud. 



"I might state," said Hon. Mr. Bow- 

 ser, "for a few moments, the great pro- 

 gress that has been made in fruit-grow- 

 ing in this Province within the past few 

 years. A few years ago, the acreage 

 under fruit was very small, but here in 

 1910 we have 120,000 acres under fruit 

 culture. We have been successful at five 

 Royal Horticultural Shows in London in 

 carrying ofif the gold medal in competi- 

 tion with the whole British Empire, and 

 these medals will be on exhibition here 

 today. Eight years ago our fruit values 

 were less than $400,000, and in 1910 

 they are over $2,000,000; and after the 

 consumption of fruit in this Province we 

 expect to ship out -over a thousand 

 carloads to the Northwest and other pro- 

 vinces. We have shipped already one 

 carload consigned to the British Isles for 

 exhibition only, and after this show we 

 expect to send another carload for ex- 

 hibition there. I understand that eleven 

 out of fourteen carloads in this exhibi- 

 tion are from British Columbia. 



