Identifier: canadabeal00beal (find matches)
Title: Canada
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bealby, J. T. (John Thomas), b. 1858
Subjects:
Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
er whatthe size or the variety of the apples, all have to bepacked in the one sized box. When well packed, withthe apples all level and even, and beautifully coloured,as they nearly always are, a box of British Columbiaapples is a perfectly lovely sight. And they are asgood as they look. But even more appetizing andattractive is a box of Kootenay cherries, Kootenay beingthe name of the principal cherry-growing district ofBritish Columbia. The boxes into which the cherriesare packed are, of course, much smaller than the boxesinto which the apples are packed. A cherry box holdsonly 8 pounds of fruit. One of the most beautiful of all the beautiful sightson a fruit-ranch is the blossoming of the cherry-trees inMay. The waxy white blossoms not only cover—literally and truly cover—the branches from end to end,but they also stick to the trunk and main limbs of thetrees, much as the feathers muffle the legs of certainkinds of pullets. The fruit-ranches in Kootenay, and many of those in 48
Text Appearing After Image:
Canadian Timber the even more famous Valley of Okanagan, occupy-some of the most beautiful situations in the world,being strung along the feet of lofty rocky mountains,with a lake washing their lower margin. And howmagnificently beautiful are these mountains and thedeep, tranquil lakes which nestle in their arms ! CHAPTER IX CANADIAN TIMBER The largest share of the natural wealth of Canada isderived from her unlimited acres and square miles ofwheat-lands. Next in importance to her wheat is hertimber. Considerably more than one-third of the totalarea of the Dominion is covered with forests. Withthe exception of the province of Prince Edward Island,all the older provinces are rich in valuable trees.British Columbia is said to have the greatest compactreserve of timber in the world. The vast prairies ofthe North-West have never, since the white man setfoot on the American continent, been at all well wooded,although to the north of the settled wheat-lands thereis a forest region nearly fi

Note About Images