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Identifier: opportunitiesinb00unse (find matches)
Title: Opportunities in British Columbia, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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Publisher: Toronto : E. Heaton
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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rs. Wells 6 to 50 ft. Dairying and mixedfarming are principal industries. Poultry and smallfruit farming (raspberries and strawberries especially),increasing rapidly. Chief crops: Timothy, clover, cornand oats, vegetables and fruits. Markets at Courtenay,Cumberland, Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver and loggingcamps. Transportation by five steamers weekly toNanaimo and Vancouver^ Served by E. & N. Ry. toCourtenay. Numerous water powers undeveloped.Large area of timber. Extensive coal and iron deposits.Beautiful scenery. Pop. about 5,000, including Cana-dians, English, Americans and Scandinavians. Nohomesteads available. Average price per acre of unclearedlands, $35 to $50; improved farms, $200. See underDescriptions of Towns. See below under Announce-ments. Write Sec. Bd. Trade, Courtenay. Note.—District won 1st prize for dairy products. Pro-vincial Exhibition, 1911-12 ; 3rd prize for root crops,1912 ; 2nd prize for root crops, Victoria Fair, 1913. AGRICULTURAL AND FRUIT DISTRICTS 65
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66 OPPORTUNITIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA VANCOUVER ISLAND—COWICHAN DISTRICT. The southern part, with town of Duncan as a centre, 40 milesfrom Victoria, contains 35,700 acres of cultivable land,well adapted to dairying, fruit and grain farming. Thereare fruit lands with deep red loam and a gravelly subsoilon the sea-coast, and shores of Cowichan, Shawinigan,Quamichan and Somenos Lakes. Irrigation is notnecessary. Poultry raising is especially profitable.Several pedigree stock farms in district. Numerousprizes won at principal stock shows in Canada. Alaska,the Yukon, and various parts along the coast provideextending markets. Equable climate. Good trans-portation by rail and water. A superior class of settlersis coming in. Write Sec. Bd. Trade, Duncan, B.C. VANCOUVER ISLAND—NANAIMO DISTRICT. Dis-trict is hilly, with an area of about 150 sq. miles. Soil avery fine loam, with clay subsoil suitable for all kinds ofgrain and hay, fruit growing (pears particularly) andmixed farming. Watered

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