VANCOUVER’S JUBILEE
Fifty years ago, when Vancouver obtained its charter, its people numbered two thousand, and most of its present site was covered by primeval forest. To-day, notes the “Sunday Times,” it numbers 350,000 souls, and is complete with port, indus<*ies, skyscrapers and a university. The city, of course, derives from the Canadian Pacific Railway; it was its position as prospective terminus that earned the charter. Nevertheless) its growth has been a story of stirring individual enterprise. There are still men living and working in the city, who have known all its stages, and who saw the immemorial firs standing where now stands' the sky-scrapers. Vancouver is Canaria’s window on the Pacific. Perhaps that may never be the world’s most important ocean. But more people live on the watersheds draining into it than on those of the Atlantic; and Canada as draining into both of the mhas a position more central for the future of trade than any great country save the United States.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 September 1936, Page 14
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164VANCOUVER’S JUBILEE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 September 1936, Page 14
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