There were so many Chinese people working in British Columbia and across Canada, and the language barrier was hard for workers and immigrants. In 1910, a Chinese-English phrase book and dictionary was published. This book includes every important translation a Chinese person would hopefully need, including the names of types of people, towns, and cities such as Van Anda.

A book published in 1910, written by E. Way Elkington, tells stories across Canada and events that happened. The Tyee Copper Mine, for which it was erected, had petered out, and the ore it treated came from the Japanese Mine, the Ikeda on Texada Island. The ore from this mine was exceptionally good, and the author saw some going through the smelter. A story about Mr. Ikeda arriving in British Columbia, and he was interested in mines, so interested that he went to Texada Island to investigate a prospect which had been offered to him at a very high figure.

Not knowing much about mines, Mr. Ikeda took the vendor with him, accompanied by a mining engineer and the two. On looking at a pile of rocks and glancing around the grounds that constituted the claim, Mr. Ikeda is credited with looking surprised and telling the vendor he could buy land in Japan of the same sort for one-third the price.

The vendor told him that after a prospector had pronounced it good, the vendor pegged it out and registered it in his name the usual way, even explaining how a mineral claim was pegged out. Mr. Ikeda listened, and then his gaze caught sight of another land, rougher, and not far from where he stood. “Does that land belong to you?” Mr. Ikeda asked the vendor, and the vendor replied, “No, that belongs to no one.” Mr. Ikeda replied, “I see,” and asked, “If I pegged that land like the method you explained, it will be mine?” The vendor replied, “Yes”.

According to the Electrical News and Engineering Magazine, published on July 6, 1910, good progress was being made on the electrical power development scheme required to carry out the Powell River Paper Company’s aims. Mr. M.J. Scanlon of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company is currently constructing an immense Pulp Mill, Saw Mill, Company Buildings, and Wharves at the Powell River, 75 miles up the coast.

The Company has started to construct a dam, but presently the penstocks are being installed, and the total investment is estimated to be around $2,000,000.

Mr. Andrew Henderson, MD, of Powell River, was announced in the Victoria Times on July 15, 1910, as the medical health officer for the Powell River district.

New mines were opening on Texada Island, and older mines were growing; when growth happens, they need to expand operations, which require new approved applications. July 19, 1910, the Pacific Lime Company of Vancouver, which earlier in the year had made mention that they were applying for a water record of one quarter of a cubic foot on a stream running into Blubber Bay from Lot 12. The water will be used for domestic purposes in the Company’s mining plant at that point.

Being summertime and schools were out, Miss L. Carter, who was part of the Van Anda public school staff, will be spending her holidays at the home of Mrs. Jas. Graham.

The large sawmill will have a capacity of 300,000 feet per day, and at present, ten donkey engines are employed in the stumping and logging operations, hauling timber and lumber from point to point. The Company has 50,000 barrels of cement now on order, of which 20,000 have been delivered, and the greater portion is used.

In connection with the work, there is a large warehouse of eight sheds, each 18×60, covering a total area of 144×60, in which any article may be found from a needle to an anchor, and a splendid up-to-date blacksmith shop and a three-story and attic temporary office building.

The question of accommodating and providing for the large force of men employed has been happily solved. In the main quarters there are ten bunk houses capable of accommodating 36 men, and it is well ventilated, and each bunk has a new wire mattress. Several small houses for the married men have been built, and quite a few tents with wooden floors and walls.

The commissary department is equally well equipped with a splendid kitchen of a size of 40x 36, in which the cook and the assistant attend to the wants of the workers. The main dining hall is 70×80, and the scene when the men, to the number of 432, sit down at once is one not soon to be forgotten by the casual visitor.

The sanitary arrangement is excellent, and pure water is abundant for the latrines; there is a store conducted by the Company, and a resident doctor, Dr. Henderson, and a trained nurse with the dispensary and hospital, and the latter can accommodate twelve patients. Up to the present, no disease has appeared, but five patients occupy the beds with accidents of various kinds.

The postal facilities at present are expected to be greatly improved in the near future, as at present there is mail only twice a week and no postmaster. Still, the matter is under advisement by the Government Officials. The telegraph and telephone line is being constructed under A.V. Porter, the foreman. It is expected that Powell River will be in telegraphic communication with Victoria and Vancouver within three months, as the submarine cables between the islands have been ordered.

Honourable Mr. Templeman, in whose constituency this important industry is located, is looked upon by the people of the district as a public benefactor in having been able to secure this much-needed and deeply prized telegraph line.

On July 28, 1910, it was announced that the American Steamer Olsen and Mahoney anchored off the outer dock last evening with a cargo of cement bound for Powell River. She took a pilot and a customs officer aboard as there is no port of entry at their destination. This cargo will be used in the construction of a dam in the river, and this cement cargo will allow that construction to be continued without loss of time.

It was not just the male population buying up property; many women were doing the same. Isabel Grant of Van Anda, a married woman, applied for permission to purchase land on Thormandby Island. The land was 25 acres more or less, was staked on July 15, 1910, first published on July 29, 1910, and was in its final publication in the BC Gazette on September 1, 1910, with Mr. Calvert Simson as the agent.

On July 28, 1910, a letter was received at the Auditor General’s office of Naval Affairs, Canada, regarding the operation of a wireless station at Powell River, British Columbia. The letter dated July 25, 1910, was a memorandum from the Minister of the Naval Service recommending that the application of the Powell River Paper Company of Powell River, BC, be permitted to erect and operate a wireless station to communicate with the Government Wireless Station at Cape Lazo, Vancouver, BC.

The Privy Council Order 1549 recommended that a limited license, with a clause, be granted to the Company, allowing it to communicate with the Cape Lazo station and ships bound to and from Powell River, except in cases of distress. That the station be operated by an operator employed by the Government Wireless Service and shall be under the control of the Superintendent of that service.

The licensee shall supply all necessary current for its operations and lighting of the said station free of charge, or, if a gasoline engine plant can be installed, the licensee shall supply all the necessary gasoline, kerosene, and lubricating oil for the operations of the station and shall maintain the station. The licensees shall also provide suitable accommodations for a single man, including light and fuel.

From Powell River to Point Gray, it was 75 cents for the first ten words, 5 cents for each additional word, and address and signature free. If it is found that the business handled does not keep the operator fully employed, arrangements can be made whereby he shall perform clerical or other duties for the licensees during his spare working hours—signed and approved on July 26, 1910.

As wireless radio licensing was being discussed, the telegraph line extension was passed in the House of Commons in Ottawa, as recorded in the Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada in 1910, approving the entire $11,900 budget.

Mr. R.C. McDonald, the Indian Agent for the Sliammon (Tla’amin) Indians, responded to a letter regarding approval of an application on July 30, 1910. Mr. McDonald responded that the application enclosed from the Powell River Paper Company was for a lease or permit to use for booming purposes in the Bay in front of the Sliammon Reserve No.1.

The reply was that the reserve was situated on the westerly shore of the Strait of Georgia, that it was tidal waters, and that the Indians had only riparian rights to the Bay in question. With that view, the Department of Indian Affairs would not be in a position to grant or lease. Still, in view of the Indians’ consent, if the Company is willing to pay for whatever rights the Indians may have in this waterfront, upon advice, the question of issuing a permit covering the same will be given due consideration.

If you wanted to buy land, land brokers advertised in newspapers like the Daily Colonist. September 4, 1910, a land broker advertised many pieces of property, including 7640 acres on Powell Lake. All one had to do was apply at No. 3 Winch Building in Vancouver, or 23 Board of Trade Building in Victoria, or, if you had a phone, one called 2106.

More cement was discharged at Powell River on August 18, 1910, by the Steamer Bramley. Under charter to WR Grace and Company, the Steamer discharged three thousand tons of cement at the Mill at Powell River. Even with a large wharf, the water is not sufficient to allow large steamers to discharge easily, and some dredging will need to be done.

The Bramley tied up in such a way that only one hatch could be unloaded at a time, as she was backed up into another as a hold was emptied. The officers of the ship reported that 600 men worked at the place and the cement would be used in the construction of the Mill being erected.

The British barge British Yeoman is towing up from San Francisco a cargo of 1500 tons of cement for Powell River. After unloading at Powell River, she will return and take on cargo at the Hastings Mill for South Africa.

Mr. RA Renwick, who was the Deputy Commissioner of Lands, published in the September 22, 1910, issue of the BC Gazette that on August 17, 1910, he gave Notice that all vacant Crown Lands situated on Powell Lake and within one mile from its shores thereof are reserved from any alienation under the Lands Act.

Mr. Scanlon, talking with a reporter at the Hotel Vancouver, is a partner of the well-known American Sawmill firm, Brooks-Scanlon Company, owning scores of sawmills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Southern States, as well as extensive timber limits in Canada and the United States.

The reporter of The Daily Colonist tells that Mr. Scanlon’s firm is behind the big enterprise up the coast and he will remain here for several months to look after the construction. Mr. Scanlon is accompanied by Mrs. Scanlon and his daughter, who just returned today from a trip to Powell River.

“We have one thousand men at work up there just now; every class of skilled and unskilled labour is represented, and good progress has been made,” Mr Scanlon tells the reporter of the newspaper.

Construction of buildings is underway, a dozen in round figures located on the beach at the mouth of the river. They are being made of reinforced concrete, equipped with automatic sprinklers, added Mr. Scanlon.

Giving additional details, Mr. Scanlon added: We will manufacture newspaper and wrapping paper at the outset, but later will also turn out the finest grades for commercial use. While our enterprise may be regarded as an experiment, we regard it as one that will justify our expenditures because the raw materials can be secured cheaper than those used by eastern competitors”

Mr. Scanlon continued an interview with the Daily Colonist on August 21, 1910, in which he told the paper about the big dam being built at the falls, a mile and a half inland. He explained that it will make a storage reservoir of Powell Lake, which extends forty miles. From that dam, a power canal will lead along the brow of the hill to an exit through a Penstock at the bottom, where waterwheels will be located in a large powerhouse.

“We are providing the ultimate requirements of 45,000 horsepower, but the penstocks to handle only 26,000 horsepower are to be installed for the present,” Mr. Scanlon quoted.

He continued, “Our Company owns 210 square miles of pulpwood and timber limits in the district; later on, we will use all the water power available with the construction of an electrically driven sawmill to cost the equipment another million dollars”

Mr. Scanlon said, “Extensive docks will also be built,” and added that the Company has already booked large orders for future delivery. The Parent Company in Minneapolis controls a paper mill that has been manufacturing paper in Little Falls, Minnesota, for the past 18 years.

Mrs. Thos. Kiddie of Vancouver and her sons John and George will shortly visit friends at Van Anda, according to the Victoria Times on August 26, 1910. John Kiddie, who is from Morenel, Arizona, where he is on the engineering staff at the big copper mining companies at Texada Island.

When the Cassiar returned from Powell River after delivering its cargo, it brought with it a demented man named William Johnson, a Swede, who lost his mind after being injured by a pile driver. Provincial Constable Lucas came south in charge of the man.

The month of September was busy on the coast of the Malaspina Strait. In the September 1, 1910, edition of the Canadian Mining Journal, they even started writing about Paper Mill Pumps. This article recanted earlier news about the Caledonian Iron Works Company of Montreal and its sale to the Powell River Paper Company, noting that very modern water pumps for the Mill are currently being erected at the mouth of Powell River.

Originally applied for on September 6, 1910, and published in the November 10, 1910, edition of the British Columbia Gazette, Mr. William Robert Dick of Vancouver, British Columbia, who was a real estate dealer, intended to apply for permission to purchase some land. The described land on Texada Island commenced at a post planted about 20 chains north of the southwest corner of Timber Lease 38769. Thence west for 80 chains, south 80 chains, east 80 chains, thence north 80 chains to the point of commencement, containing 640 acres.

A new handbook, titled Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, was published in 1910 by Frederick Webb Hodge. In the book, Mr. Hodge writes that the Sliammon (Tla’amin), a Salish tribe on Malaspina Inlet in British Columbia who spoke the Comox dialect, had a population of 107 in 1909.

The headwaters of Powell Lake were the subject of intense land speculation, as a mill was now widely known to be under construction. Mr. Stanley Creasey, a merchant tailor, gave Notice to intend to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands at the headwaters of Powell Lake. Commencing at a post planted on the bank of said lake about a quarter of a mile up the Powell River, near the first falls on said river, thence 40 chains north, 40 chains east, thence 40 chains south and 40 chains west to the point of commencement containing 160 acres more or less, published originally on October 11, 1910 and again in the BC Gazette on December 22, 1910.

Big game hunting was still very active on Powell Lake during the construction of the pulp mill, and Dr. Morrison wrote about his Braim Hunting Party, who went to Powell Lake, which was also published in the Rod and Gun Club Magazine. In this article was the story of a hunting party that consisted of W. Braim, P. Booth, R. Renshaw, J. Kelly, Dr. Morrison, T. Prime and A. Grant, with Mr. Braim’s launch as the vessel to take them to Powell Lake.

Boarding the SS Comox, there were five people in total in the hunting party, who were travelling the eighty miles north into the ocean wild and wide adventure. After visiting Squamish, they arrived at a log float, a quarter mile from shore, then had their Choo-Choo and canoe unslung and boxes loaded, then as the misty day came stealing, they rowed the outfit over to the shore.

The camp was at an outlet with a wicked rapid, high falls, so the Company had a railway in for a mile and a half to the lake where the logs were loaded on cars and brought with a donkey engine, geared to make the grade, which in one place was 15 percent. While strolling around the camp, Mr. Young found a kiddie playing with two fawns and promptly kodaked them.

Some of the party went out fishing and came back with strings of trout that would make a mummy’s mouth water. Next morning they were freighted over to the lake, and soon they were on their way for the thirty-mile journey. The little Choo-Choo towed them up the lake, passing the logging company’s tug with a party of railroad men.

Over the course of a few days, they hunted goats as the mountains along the lake rose to five or six thousand feet. Where these streams entered the lake was the finest fishing to be had, with silver and rainbow trout being ready and eager. Mr. Young and Mr. Buck continued to hunt; at times they hunted deer and returned after spending a night in the fog.

The next day Mr. Braim and Mr. Prime went out and came back carrying two goat skins and goat steak; Esau wasn’t so badly off of Jacob’s steak, whereas the Rocky Mountain ones were as tender as the Rocky Mountain ones.

After a few days of hunting, the party was successful and, with many other adventures, ran into a storm on the lake. The story in the newspaper told of deer, goats, mountains, rifles and many trout. Coming back to the salt, the real boat was hailed; the Choo-Choo and the canoe were attached to the vessel and the Captain and the Crew set sail, and the hunting party returned to where they originally came from.

On October 22, 1910, Mr. Phillips Ramsey Brooks of Vancouver, BC, a Lumberman, intended to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands. Commencing at a post planted at or near the northeast corner of Lot 560, thence west 20 chains, thence north 20 chains, thence east 20 chains to the shore of the First Gordon Pasha Lakes, thence along the shore of the said lake in a southwesterly direction to the point of commencement.

The Brooks, Scanlon, O’Brien Company Limited, a body corporate having its head office in the City of Vancouver, BC, intends to apply for permission to purchase the following described lands. Commencing at a post planted 14 chains more or less south of the north west corner of Lot 1631 on the shore of Scow Bay, thence north to the southern boundary of Lease 617, thence along the said boundary in a westerly fashion to Eagle River, thence along the east bank of said river to salt water at the Malaspina Strait, thence along the shore in an easterly direction to the point of commencement, published October 24, 1910.

Rumours from earlier in the year came true in the Evening Sun Newspaper published on October 28, 1910, about an experimental plant on Texada Island. The experimental oil-burning smelter for the treatment of metalliferous ore had been erected at Van Anda on the site of the old smelter and is reported to be doing good work.

Sad news came from Melahay Cave about 20 miles northwest of Lund, BC, when the Alberni News reported on November 5, 1910, that D. Gibsons of Vancouver, BC, was shot and killed. On October 30, 1910, he was accidentally shot by his hunting companion, who mistook him for a deer in the woods near the cave.

It was good news for the Garthage Machine Company of New York when they received an order on October 31, 1910, for two 300-horsepower grinders for the Powell River Paper Company in Powell River, British Columbia.

A Notice of Assignment was published on December 1, 1910, pursuant to the Creditors Trust Deeds Act of 1910, by Royal L. Maitland. The Northern Texada Mines Limited, incorporated in the Province of British Columbia and having its head office at Van Anda, Texada Island, did on November 17, 1910, assign all its personal property, real estate, credits and effects which may be seized under the executor to Royal L. Maitland of the City of Vancouver, BC.

Mr. Maitland gave Notice to all the creditors of the said Northern Texada Mines Limited that all persons who have claims against the Company are required to forward particulars, duly verified, before January 1911.

Slowly, Texada Island was being swallowed up, and the lands on most of the valuable parts of the island were cleared, mined, or settled. Mr. David Stewart Ryan, a miner, gave Notice on November 2, 1910, that he intended to apply for permission to lease land commencing at a post planted near an unnamed island about two miles from the south end of Texada Island. On the east side, it commenced 40 chains west, thence 60 chains south, thence 40 chains east, more or less, to the foreshore, thence in a northwesterly direction to the point of commencement, containing 240 acres, more or less.

Mr. H.W. Treat filed a Mineral Claim for the Rose and Bell Fraction Mineral Claim on November 2, 1910, situated on Texada Island. The mining claims bounded on the north by Lot 14, on the south by the Rose Mineral Claim, on the east by the Bell Mineral Claim, on the west by William Lowther pre-emption. Mr. Treat gave Notice that under the Free Miners Certificate No. 21170, he intended within 60 days to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above-mentioned claim.

Vessels that travelled up and down the coast of British Columbia sometimes encountered issues with their boilers, and the logging companies that used steam donkeys and locomotives finally had a Certified Steamboat Inspector. Mr. Anton Akerberg, from Lund, BC, set up his business after receiving his Certificate of Competency as an Engineer of Steamboats. Passing his exam in Vancouver, BC, with certificate number 4947 in July 1908, he could now tow vessels with boiler issues to Lund rather than all the way back down to Vancouver.

The City of Lund, a screw tug at Lund, British Columbia, passed its inspection and was issued a Certificate that expired on July 22, 1910, and was replaced by a new certificate.

A steamer on November 11, 1910, was at the Vancouver harbour, loading cable for the extensions of the Dominion government telegraph and telephone line through Gulf points. She will put off cables at Powell River, Quathiaski Cove, Mary Island and Lund, which will be connected up with land wires, establishing a through line from the present Campbell River terminus.

The Powell River Paper Company Ltd, published by P.R. Brooks, who was the director of the Company, on December 8, 1910, a Water Notice under the Water Act of 1909. This Notice by the Company stated that their head office was in the Winch Building in Vancouver, that the Capital was divided, showing the amount paid of $1,500,000, divided into 15,000 shares of $100 each, and $49,000 subscribed and paid up.

Determined to control the area surrounding Powell Lake, the Powell River Paper Company announced on December 8, 1910, that after a long-standing difficulty between the Company and the Michigan-Puget Sound Lumber Company, the Powell River Paper Company acquired the interest of the Sayward timber interests in the Powell Lake and river district.

The acquisition was amicably adjusted on December 11, 1910, when the representatives of the contending companies again came before the Provincial Executives. In the Prosecution of the large enterprise of the pulp and paper company upon which upwards of 1500 white men have now been steadily employed during the nine months or more. As it was necessary to shift both the logging railway and the booming grounds, and to which companies will bear the special expenses of doing so.

The question of the booming grounds was satisfactorily arranged. Still, it was reopened by a decision of the federal authorities as to where the breakwater of the pulp and paper company should be located. Both issues have now been amicably adjusted, and the work of changing the railway line will now be proceeded with at the cost of the pulp and paper company.

Land speculator John Nelson Frye, who had other district lots on Texada Island, received Lot 34 on December 9, 1910, which contained one hundred and eighteen acres for $295.00. This particular lot sat right on the shores of the western side of Texada Island with full access to the Strait of Georgia. Directly behind Lot 34 is Lot 35, and Mr. Frye received his Crown Grant on the same day, now with the ability to expand his land reach away from the saltwater.

With the new pulp mill under construction at the Powell River and much of the land now under the control of the Powell River Paper Company in that area, along with the Government placing a hold on all lands around Powell Lake under government control and use, those lands that were not under either of these became very valuable. Land sellers such as Croft and Ashby from 5 Winch Building in Vancouver had access to available lands and, in December 1910, advertised 7,680 acres of land on Powell Lake.

As the year came to a close in 1910, Mr. Andrew Smyth received his Crown Grant for District Lot 2358 on December 13, 1910. This particular lot just sat outside Lot 450, on the North side of the mouth of Powell River, with 2 small bays on Powell Lake. It was a very strategic property and could control many aspects of the comings and goings of the logs from the lake to the saltwater.

One would have never suspected that there was a Hotel on the Pasha Lakes in 1910, and that it had applied to be licensed to sell liquor under the Provincial Liquor Act. Mr. W.D. Duke, who owned the Hotel Gordon on the Pasha Lakes, filled out a new application and was refused his license, as it was not in the public interest. On Texada Island, Mr. A. Barrett applied as well for a Hotel there and was refused, as the applicant had not been in the Province for more than one year.

The Steamer Queen Alexander, under the command of Captain McDonald, occupied 86 days to complete the voyage from New York to Victoria, BC. She brought a large cargo consisting of nearly 6000 tons for Victoria, Vancouver and Powell River. Included in her cargo was new machinery for the new pulp and paper mill to be installed at Powell River. The Steamer will proceed to Powell River after December 12, 1910, which is 73 miles from Vancouver and unload the machinery.

Three days out from New York, the Steamer Queen Alexandra, carrying a cargo of machinery for the new pulp mill in Powell River and 6000 tons of steel rails, lost her second engineer, Mr. T. Gibson of Sunderland, England. He disappeared from his 10 pm watch and was not known until a search began for him when the steering gear broke two hours later. He left no note, nor did his conversation before his disappearance indicate he was determined upon suicide, but no trace of him was found.

Isabella J Kelly received her Crown Grant for District Lot 1479 on December 15, 1910. This land sat on the southern side of Brew Bay and had an extensive waterfront that many logging outfits wanted. The lot was split in half by an old Timber Limit No. 8079 of James Summers, who acquired it on March 30, 1892.

The Steamer Queens Alexander, which will discharge 1000 tons of steel rails at Vancouver, will then proceed to Powell River, as announced on December 29, 1910. It was also announced on the same day that Mr. G.H. Davey, a wireless operator on the Quadra, accepted a new position. Mr. Davey, who for many years was on the local staff of the CPR Telegraphs, then the Bamfield Creek cable station and then the new wireless operator on the DGS Quadra. Mr. Davey accepted an important post in the gift of the Dominion Government at Powell River, the new town of that name which sprang into existence at the site of the immense pulp works just approaching completion on the mainland coast, some 150 miles north of Vancouver.

It is said Mr. Davey will sever his connections with the Quadra at an early date and leave to assume his new duties at Powell River, acting as the government agent and the postmaster. The town to which he goes, though as yet only in the embryo state, has an assured future, since the Powell River Pulp and Paper Company have put in an immense plant, which alone gives employment to several thousand hands.

The Deputy Commissioner of Lands, Mr. Robert A. Renwick, gave Notice of the Cancellation of Reserve, stating that the reserve existing by reason of the Notice published in the BC Gazette on December 27, 1907, over lands situated on Texada Island, formerly covered by the Timber Lease No. 13449, is cancelled. The Notice of said lands will be open for location under the provisions of the Land Act at midnight on March 22, 1911, dated December 15, 1910.

The accounts that happened in 1910 present a most remarkable picture of the present year’s activity upon the northern coast, where Powell River, Texada Island, and the neighbouring settlements are advancing with a vigour seldom witnessed in this Province. From the publication of a Chinese‑English phrase book to aid the many industrious newcomers, to the curious tale of Mr. Ikeda’s discovery of valuable mineral ground—“If I pegged that land like the method you explained, it will be mine?”—the narrative shows how British Columbia is becoming a meeting place of peoples, enterprise, and opportunity.

Reports of customs officers halting foreign tugs, engineers surveying new water records, and the Dominion Government extending telegraph lines all attest to the rapid organization of industry and communication along the Strait of Georgia.

Equally striking is the immense undertaking of the Powell River Paper Company, whose works are already spoken of as among the greatest enterprises in British Columbia. The descriptions of construction—“a splendid 400‑foot‑long wharf… an 800‑foot‑long breakwater… ten bunk houses capable of accommodating 36 men each”—demonstrate the scale of investment now transforming the district. Shipments of cement from San Francisco and Hamburg, new machinery arriving weekly, and hundreds of labourers of every trade employed upon the grounds show that the coast is entering a new era of industrial promise.

Interspersed notices of schoolteachers’ holidays, lost dogs, hunting parties on Powell Lake, and land applications from Vancouver brokers remind those coming to the coast that, amid all this enterprise, everyday life continues to unfold. Taken together, these reports form a valuable record of a coast awakening to its future, and of a community rising swiftly upon the foundations now being laid.