Excerpt from British Columbia Magazine, Vol. 8: May, 1912 Editor's note. - The resources of British Columbia are unrivalled in Australia or any other portion of the Empire, and this article does not aim at giving the palm to the Common wealth as the haven for any foot-loose pioneer, British or otherwise, in preference to our own province. It does aim, however, at planting some seeds of thought in our minds as to improving our own methods for placing good, solid citizens on our own soil. If any of our readers writes us down as tiresome in the matter of reiterating the fact that the source of all our wealth, present and future, is the land, he can find cold comfort in the fact that when he and we have passed on, the best friends of British Columbia will still be preaching the same old gospel from the same old text. 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.