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alive with ferries shuttling back and forth between Vancouver and the north
shore, and with coastwise steamers. The city’s warehouses carry on trade with
the sawmills, mines, fish canneries and farms scattered along the coast and
throughout the interior of the province. Deep-sea vessels call for British
Columbia lumber, apples and canned salmon and for prairie wheat in exchange
for cargoes from all parts of the globe. Passenger liners connect this western
metropolis with the Orient, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaï.
It seldom snows in Vancouver and the average yearly temperature is a
mild fifty. In case of a heat wave there are 13 beaches totalling 12 miles of
sand-paved shore, all within the city limits. Vancouver has also three large
yacht clubs. During the war when every private boat had to be registered, the
city produced a list of 10,000 assorted craft.
Half of Vancouver’s population is of British origin. It has the second largest
Chinese population on the Pacific coast, and prior to the war, 14,000 Japanese
made Vancouver their home. So many Chinese drift in and out of Vancouver
that the Chinese Times operates an unofficial mail exchange in its front window.
Letters from China addressed to Charlie Wong, Canada, somehow seem to
turn up there for display and remain there until claimed. Turbanned Hindus
are also numerous in Vancouver. One of the city’s two hundred churches is a
Sikh temple.
Vancouver is the leading educational centre of the province. Here are
located the University of British Columbia, a Provincial Normal School,
and the Vancouver School of Art.
Stanley Park, Vancouver’s 1,000-acre oasis of primitive cedars and firs,
is circled by a driveway, crisscrossed by bridle paths and trails, and dotted
with beaches and picnic grounds.
The half-million people of Greater Vancouver find excellent opportunities
for recreation in Stanley Park and also on the many golf courses that are
open all year round. Despite its usually temperate climate, Vancouver is close
to the snow in winter. Across Burrard Inlet the Lion’s, Grouse, Seymour and
Crown mountains are snow-capped for several months of the year, and it is
possible for office workers in the city to be on exceptional ski slopes within an
hour of leaving their desks.
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