New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . sawmills, shingle mills, planingmills, and sash and door factories. Chief Cities and Towns. Victoria, the capital, a place of great nat-ural ])eauty on the southeast of Aancouver,has fine buildings. It has a laige ocean andcoast trade. Vancouver, on IJurrard Inlet, isthe largest city in the province. It is the ter-minus of the and of the Pacific steam-ship lin(^s, and is commercially ViDimiimr, North l^diironrer, Neic Wcnt-miuttter, Nannimo, Ni/soti, Ross/a in/, andPrince Rupert are rising places. Many min-
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . sawmills, shingle mills, planingmills, and sash and door factories. Chief Cities and Towns. Victoria, the capital, a place of great nat-ural ])eauty on the southeast of Aancouver,has fine buildings. It has a laige ocean andcoast trade. Vancouver, on IJurrard Inlet, isthe largest city in the province. It is the ter-minus of the and of the Pacific steam-ship lin(^s, and is commercially ViDimiimr, North l^diironrer, Neic Wcnt-miuttter, Nannimo, Ni/soti, Ross/a in/, andPrince Rupert are rising places. Many min-ing centres are rapidly growing into newtowns, ;ecially in the soutlun-n part. Trace the courses of the rivers and point out the inletsand islands. Trace on the map the ship-passage alongthe coast. Account for the peculiarities of the climateof British Columbia. Give an account of the naturalpiociucts of the province. Point out the coal and irondistricts. Trace on the map the course of the CanadianPacific Railway; also of the Grand Trunk Lumbering, THE NORTHERN TERIUTORIES. YUKON AND THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES. Trace out the houndaiies of each territory on the map,page 38. What territory borders on Hudson BaylWhere are the Nelson, Churchill, Great Whale, Albany,Eastmain, and Big rivers 1 Which are the largestlakes and rivers of the North-West Territory?Name a few of the islands and straits in theNorth-West Territory. Name some of the islandsin Hudson Bay. Where are Port Nelson andPort Churchill? Yukon extends from British Columbiaon the south to the Arctic Ocean on thenorth, and from the Noitli-West Terri-tory on the east to ^Vhiska on the has become celebrated the world overfor its famous gold mines that have at-tracted thousands of pioneers. Theoutput has reached between twenty andthirty millions a year taken from thecreeks flowing into the Yukon Kiver. Timbersuflicient for fuel and mining is plentiful. Thesummer heat is Icmarkable for such a h
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