Excerpt from A History and Geography of British Columbia: For Use in Public Schools This little book has been prepared for the use of the public schools of British Columbia, in the hope that the children who study it will derive both pleasure and profit from its perusal. Its aim is to show how, from a wilderness, this province has become the home of civilized men, who are preparing the country for a much larger population. 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.