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Rh of Vancouver, the western terminus of the great transcontinental line stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Canadian Pacific Railway, with one continuous line from Halifax, Nova Scotia, a distance of 3,762 miles, besides its numerous branches to every city and section, in that vast Dominion of Canada. The same company has its own line of steamships and connections to every important harbor on the globe.

Their harbor is one of the finest in the world, it being possible for the Briton's entire navy to ride at anchor within her land-locked waters.

The great salmon fishing industry of the Fraser river, is at its very doors.

I enjoyed my street car ride and an afternoon well spent going through Stanley Park. The perfume was so fragrant and pure as I wandered among the immense trees, occasionally