Chapter 5 - Resources and the Economy

This painting shows the Canadian Pacific wharf on the Vancouver waterfront on a busy day in 1887. A freight train is arriving from Eastern Canada. So is a coastal steamboat, bringing mail and passengers from Victoria. Gordon Miller painting

From the earliest days, British Columbians have relied for their livelihood on the resources of...

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