id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044081328395 Chittenden, Newton H. Settlers, prospectors, and tourists guide or Travels through British Columbia By Newton H. Chittenden 1882 .txt text/plain 8091 456 69 ADDRESS:--Skidegate Oil Co., Victoria, British Columbia. along the shores of the then unknown, unnamed land of British Columbia. of the City of Victoria, followed six years later by the formation of the Vancouver Colony. There is a large tract of open arable land on the Queen Charlotte Islands without a white settler. Creek, Kamloops, Spallumcheen, Salmon River, Okanagan, Grand Prairie sections there are large amounts of excellent farming lands; and in the Lake La Hache, upper Fraser, Chilicotin, exports for the most distant ports, numerous manufacturing industries, well graded streets, and good public and private buildings, would scarcely believe that all these things are the creation of a little more than twenty years, and that only a generation has passed since the Hudson Bay Company first planted Crossing the Cascades its Western slopes, river valleys, embrace the greatest variety of climates and range of productions, varying according to altitude and local surface configurations. ./cache/hvd.32044081328395.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044081328395.txt