Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
Page 107
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The steamer stopped at the capital City, British Columbia at 1.15 and we had a chance to ashore for an hour. This is Victoria and here I visited the Parliament Building, another pleasing grey stone large structure standing back on a park facing the sea wards. Nearby in the C.P.R.R. laye Victoria Hotel. We walked along one of the main streets to see the stores. There are very much like our own. The Olympics an all of metamorphic rocks, and to the north of them are the upturned Cenozoic formations in fault relations to the east. To the north of these are low hills, mainly a table land of elevated horizontal sands. The redding in places is so distinct from these Pleistocene deltas must be of marine origin. Those lower hills go up 200 feet or more.