The Canadian Commonwealth

untains is a climate high, cold and bracing as Russia or Switzerland. Between the ranges of the mountains are valleys mild as France. On the coast toward the south is

ger than Germany, the population is smaller than that of a suburb of Berlin.[12] Of Canada's thirty-four million dollars' worth of fish, thirteen million dollars' worth come f

is turning the entire Pacific into a front door instead of a back door, then British Columbia knows the coign of vantage, which she hold

ulation was 5,308,483; in 1901, th

1840 to 1900, Her population dropped in roun

ada, 1912, $1,085,264,000; of

to the United States at a million

few sections of the Northwest wh

tario to James Bay; Manitoba and Saskatchewan to Hudson Bay; Alberta to MacKenzie River. Northern British Columbia is not yet surveyed, which explains why its northern area is largely a

eries for 1912 yi

y from year to year, but I do not think

s includin

16,478,000 acres. Area surveyed available for cultiv

is usually four to five cents. It has been as low a

bia's population i

d, $818,672; nickel, $10,229,623; silver, $17,452,128; other metal, $322,862; total, $46,197,428. Non-metallic