THE PLACE TO LIVE IN.

Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE PLACE TO LIVE IN.

I The climate of British Columbia (says W. S. Caiue. M.P., in his “Trip Round the World ”) is as nearly perfect as possible. It is free from excessive hea in summer and extreme, cold in winter, and is healthful and invigorating ail the year round. Snow seldom falls, and never lies more than a few days. For a period of three years, on Vancouver Island, the lowest temperature has been eight degrees above zero, and the highest 84 degrees. The mercury has never been known to fall below zero. There is nothing on the Atlantic in the same latitudes that furnishes so excellent a climate as this. The climatic influence which produces it is the. great current of warm water which flows in the Pacific Ocean, known as the Japan current spreading its genial atmosphere from Alaska to Mexico. From this current an almost constant wind blows landward, current and' wind combined enabling the Japan and China steamers to make some two days’ better time coming east than going west. With all this warmth there is plenty of moisture, the rainfall in Vancouver being 25 inches, and on the mainland 40 to 60 inches. Taken as a whole, British Columbia is one of the most delightful countries in the world, and were I compelled by circumstances to seek afresh home away from the old country, it would have attractions that would be irresistible to me.