Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-16
VANCOUVER HARBOR
FACILITATES TRADE
AT BRITISH PORT
Consul Describes Waterway
and Points Out Deep
Water Advantages Ship
ping Interests Benefit.

! WASHINGTON, Sept. 1i.-Consul- Cen.
cral II. n, Mansfield writes asfollows con.
cerning the city of Vancouver In British
Columbia:
"One of the principal features and an
important asset of Vancouver as the
transportation, commercial and Industrial
centre of British Columbia is the splendid
harbor on which 1t is situated Nature
is the important factor in the creation
of great harbors, and has highly favored
Vancouver.
"Burrard Inlet, the harbor proper, OK
tends for II miles from the Narruws,
as tho entrance is called, eastward to
Port Moody at the head of tho inlet,
which was first selected as the location
for the terminal wharves and docks of
tho Canadian Pacific Railway, the first
of the transconinental lines to reach the
British Columbia coast in 1886. Later
when the Canadian Pacific Railway cx-
tended its lines farther west and decided
to construct its terminals on the south
shore of Burrard Inlet. on the site whore
Vancouver stands now, the foundations
were laid for the greatest seaport and
shipping centre in the Canadian West.
The inlet II miles long and two miles
wide ON the average, forms an area of
about u square miles. Extending north
westerly from point about seven miles
from the entrance up the north shore Is
what Is known as the North Arm, an cN-
tension longer than the main inlet, and
averaging two miles wide.
THE favorable features of Vancouver
harbor are an all the year round open
port, ample anchorage, many miles of
water front with depth sufficient for the
largest vessels, perfect security from
weather conditions and accessibility to the
open sea and to the coast waters of Brit
ish Columbia. The waters of the harbUr
are of a great depth in mdchannel, moro
than 30 fathoms in places, while near the
shore there is depth Of water IN most
places of more than % feet. In some
instances deep water extends so close in
that large vessels can anchor within u
few rods Of the shore.
GROWING SHIPPING INTERESTS.
"rhe shipping facilities OF Vancouver
harbor have so far been confined gen
orally to the south shore Of the inlet,
where much of the waterfront. Is occupied
by sawmills and other industries But
the growing shipping interest will soon
require practically all the south shore
and is already extending to the north
shore where large docks, wharvcs and
shipbuildng plants are being constructed.
Within Il few years tho factories along
the inlet within the corporation limits
will give way TO wharfage ana docks, us
the sites are becoming too valuable for
manufacturing purposes.
Extensive improvements are being
made to accommodate the increasing
business of the port, for which several
million dollars will be spent this year
and when the new Government and pIi-
vate docks, wharvcs and dredging
schemes planned and under construction
are completed the facilities OF the harbor
will be greatly increased, making the
Vancouver harbor one OF the best on the
Pacific coast.
IN addition to the deep water harbor
of Burrard Inlet the needs of smaller
craft have also been provided for in the
shallow waters of also Crock, small
inlet runnin. just south of and parallel
with tho main body of water. False
Creek. the shores of which arc mostly
tide flats, is the rendezvous and furnishes
a harbor for Nancouvor's mosquito feet
where there is usually Il congestion of
small craft traffic, especially of tu-boats.
scows and launches. II IS also used rs n
storage basin for log bOoms for the vari-
Gus sawmils that line it's shores.
FIVE GREAT RAILWAYS.
give transcontincntal railways, tho
Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific
and Canadian Northern Pacific. all