Farming in Vancouver Island : a land and climate unequalled for mixed farming, dairying, fruit growing, poultry raising and outdoor life

Promotes Vancouver Island as an ideal climate for farming and husbandry of all kinds. Sponsored by the Canadian Pacific Railway in order to assure a food supply for the railway. Includes maps of the plots of land available, of Vancouver Island and Victoria along with pictures of the landscape around Victoria.

In Collection:

• Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

Creator

• Vancouver Island Fruit Lands, Ltd.

Contributor

• Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Subject

• Agriculture--Economic aspects
• Agriculture
• Canadian Pacific Railway Company
• Economic history--Economic conditions

Publisher

• J.J. Keliher [printer]

Language

• eng

Identifier

• GVPL Call Number: 630.9711 V223F

Date created

• 1910

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• [ca. 75 p.] : ill., map [folded].

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Vancouver Island

Coordinates

• 49.65064, -125.44939
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical Repository

• Greater Victoria Public Library

Collection

• Greater Victoria Public Library Local History Collection

Provenance

• Greater Victoria Public Library

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• books

Date digitized

• March 28, 2012

Technical note

• Digitized by JF, image modified by JF, technical metadata provided by KM, cataloguing metadata provided by GF and KD.

Rights

• Images are available on this site for private use. For all other uses or access to the original please contact the Greater Victoria Public Library.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0syx-cr02