Excerpt from A History and Geography of British Columbia: For Use in Public Schools From Vancouver and Victoria, during summer, numbers of steamers carry to the miners of Northern British Columbia and the Yukon, food, clothing, machinery, furniture and books, and whatever else will help to make life in the far north comfortable, prosperous and happy. All along the coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, are fur-trading, fishing and mining settlements which furnish a profitable trade to the merchants of Victoria and Vancouver. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.