Handbook Of British Columbia 1913

Author : John Bensley Thornhill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333349318
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book British Columbia in the Making, 1913 (Classic Reprint) written by John Bensley Thornhill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from British Columbia in the Making, 1913 The British Empire, and with reason, has been described as one vast commercial concern. My object in writing this book is to draw attention to British Columbia, and to show that there is something in it more than sentiment. The twentieth century of the world's progress is Canada's, and the Pacific is the Ocean of the Future. Yet, despite the advertising both have received, less is known of them in England and the world generally than is their due. Both the books and the Govern ment pamphlets bewilder, and the cruel game of selling rotten real estate to maiden ladies, retired military officers, and the classes least able to look after their investments, has the effect of giving Canada - especially its Golden West - a bad name. In my chapter on Real Estate, Speculation, and Investment I do my best to in uence capital from the older settled countries, and to indicate the chances offered in a country that has been barely scratched. I cannot too strongly point out that, although big money has been made in land speculation, there is far more money (and certain money at that) in industrial development, and especially in mining, lumbering and fishing. 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 intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."