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Identifier: conciseschoolatl00cana (find matches)
Title: Concise school atlas of the Dominion of Canada : historical and physical features of provinces, districts, and territories of the Dominion
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Canada. Dept. of the Interior
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Publisher: Ottawa : (Ministry of the Interior)
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
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38.77 inches;snowfall, 41.9 inches. Highest aver-age temperature at Mission Valley,upper mainland, for a number ofyears. 98 deg.; lowest, 17 deg. below;mean annual, 43.40 deg.; rainfall,5.52 inches: snowfall, 59.7. Averagerainfall Xicola Lake—interiorplateau,, —12 inches. Forests, Etc.— Forests amongmost valuable resources of Province.Coasts as far north as Alaska covered with densegrowth of valuable timber. Estimated woodedarea, 285,554 square miles. Trees attain giganticsize on west slopes of Coast Ranges; among themost valuable are Oregon pine or Douglas fir, redand yellow cedar, and white spruce. Availabletimber 1899. 40 to 100 billion feet. Sawmills 1899,90; capacity. 1.693.000 feet daily; exported, 52,-531,458 feet; taken away by 57 vessels. Agriculture, Etc.—Principal agriculturaldistricts Fraser Valley, southeastern and north-ern portion of Vancouver Island, and OkanagonDistrict; aggregate area of cultivable lands inthese districts fully 1.000.000 acres. In the latter
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BRITISH COLUMBIA. are still more extensive areas suitable for grazingonly. Throughout the Province, however, arelarge areas of open countrj. chietly pastoral orrequiring irrigation for crops. Area under culti-vation increasing fast and farming methods areimproving. Country adapted to cereals, fruits,grasses, hops, flax, sugar beet, tobacco, and veg-etables. Special attention given to fruit culturein New Westminster and Yale districts. Largetracts of excellent pasture; interest in dairyfarming growing rapidly. Fisheries.—Among natural resources fish-eries second only to mining. Salmon canningand fur sealing most valuable branches of indus-try. Deep-sea fisheries important and steadily de-veloping. Salmon, sturgeon, halibut, cod, ojsters,crabs, lead in value. In 1897, 60 salmon canneries

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  • bookcontributor:The_University_of_Western_Ontario__Western_Archives
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