BIG BUSH FIRES.
GREAT DAMAGE IN WEST CANADA. | A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Rec. July 8, 5.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 7. A wind last Thursday night fanned some bush fires along the British Columbian Coast into a destructive conflagration. The fires were caused by a week’s drought. The fires caused the burning of a number of small settlements, summer resorts, and fishing villages, including a returned soldier settlement at Melville, on Vancouver Island, where there are fifty families now homeless. The loss of standing timber in the province of British Columbia already amounts to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
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Grey River Argus, 10 July 1922, Page 5
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