Central British Columbia Canada, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Central British Columbia Canada, Vol. 1: A New Field for Exploitation British Columbia is Canada´s most westerly province, comprising all the Pacific seaboard belonging to the Dominion, together with man coastal islands and an extensive inland territory. For many years it had the largest area of any province in Canada and now holds third place, being exceeded by Quebec and Ontario only. Its total area is 355,855 square miles, of which 353,416 square miles are land and 2,439 square miles are covered by water. British Columbia is the mountain province of Canada. Almost its entire area is made up of gigantic ranges, whose majestic peaks, clothed in perpetual ice and snow, rival in magnitude and beauty the famous Alps themselves; of deep, narrow valleys of exceeding fertility, where luscious fruits and luxuriant vegetation, watered by foaming mountain streams and sheltered by overhanging cliffs, attain a degree of perfection unequalled elsewhere; or of broad, sunny plateaus of grassy lands, interspersed with numerous lakes and streams, bordered by gently-rolling hills of greenest woods and drained by networks of swiftly-flowing streams. The province is a veritable "sea of mountains," and its grandeur of scenery, congenial climate and wealth of natural resources are unsurpassed by any other district of equal magnitude in the world. From east to west Canada is made up of five great physiographic divisions, namely, the Appalachian region, embracing the Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec, the St. Lawrence lowlands of Southern Quebec and Ontario, the Great Plains region of Western Canada, the Laurentian plateau surrounding Hudson bay, and the Cordilleran region extending from the Rocky mountains to the Pacific coast. The greater part of British Columbia lies within the Cordilleran division, with a triangular area in the northeast corner of the province extending into the Great Plains division. The outstanding topographical feature of the province is the Rocky Mountain range, the "backbone" of the North American continent. It crosses Canada in a northwesterly and southeasterly direction and makes the "continental divide" that parts the waters of the Pacific slope from those flowing easterly. The Rocky mountains vary in elevation from 2,700 feet in the vicinity of Dease lake to a climax of 13,068 feet in mount Robson. Pine pass has an elevation of 2,850 feet, Yellowhead pass 3,700 feet and Kicking Horse pass 5,332 feet. There are several peaks exceeding 10,000 feet in elevation and innumerable lesser mountains, hills and plateaus. It has been estimated that if the whole of British Columbia were brought to a level plane the elevation would be about 3,500 feet above the level of the sea. The Rocky Mountain range runs practically parallel to the Pacific coast at a distance of 350 or 400 miles inland. A lesser and more irregular range follows the coast more closely and constitutes what is known as the "Cascade" and "Coast" mountains. Between these two principal mountain ranges lies a vast plateau. The Cordilleran division thus subdivides itself naturally into these three great belts, the Eastern, Central and Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentional
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