Vancouver Ideally Situated

Visitors from all parts of the world have praised Vancouver for its ideal situation, walled in on the north by high timber-clad mountains, and open to the sunshine of the south and west. Without our local mountains, Vancouver would not occupy the position she does in the commercial world today, because this wall is the source of Vancouver’s greatest asset, viz. our water supply. We cannot over-estimate the value of a reliable source of cold, fresh water, furnished by slowly melting snows, percolating through the sandy, gravelly soil and cool shady forests to the water intakes; Vancouver is in an enviable position in this respect. When the citizens of Vancouver realize the necessity of the trees on the mountain slopes for the maintenance of this supply, they will not tolerate any interference with the timber or any part of the watershed.