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Title: Fishing in British Columbia
With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina

Author: Thomas Wilson Lambert

Release Date: May 8, 2009 [EBook #28719]

Language: English

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FISHING

IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

FISHING

IN

BRITISH COLUMBIA

WITH A CHAPTER ON TUNA FISHING
AT SANTA CATALINA.

BY

T.W. LAMBERT,

M.A., M.B., B.C. (Cantab.); M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (London).

_Late Surgeon to the Western Division, Canadian
Pacific Railway Company._

LONDON:
HORACE COX,
"FIELD" OFFICE, WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAM'S
BUILDINGS, E.C.

1907.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY HORACE COX, "FIELD" OFFICE, WINDSOR HOUSE,

BREAM'S BUILDINGS, E.C.

PREFACE.

The Author hopes that this book may prove of some interest to anglers by
giving a short account of the fishing which is to be obtained in a part
of the world hitherto little exploited, and well worthy of better
acquaintance.

British Columbia only became fairly easy of access after the completion
of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887, which placed it within two
weeks' journey from London. Before that time it was cut off by the
immense prairies of the north-west of Canada, and could only be reached
by a long journey round Cape Horn or over the Isthmus of Panama. Since
the date given, however, a new era has dawned for the country, and all
the southern part of it has been opened up by railways. Thus its waters
have been rendered easy of access to any fisherman willing to try them.
The position of the country on the map resembles that of Norway and
Sweden in Europe, and the general resemblance is borne out by the
feat