Transport and Travel.

Vancouver Island.

There are no really navigable rivers nor trunk-roads in the island. Several district roads are good, particularly near Victoria. The sea is the main highway at present. A Government steamer goes weekly to Cowichan, Maple Bay, Admiral Island, Chemanis, and Nanaimo, and to Comox fortnightly. The rates of faro are as follows:—

From Victoria to—

Cowichan, Maple Bay, and Admiral Island, single ticket, two dollars and fifty cents (10s. English), return ditto, four dollars (16s. English).

Chemanis, single ticket, three dollars (12s. English), return ditto, five dollars (20s. English).

Nanaimo, single ticket, four dollars (16s. English), return ditto, six dollars and fifty cents. (26s. English).

Comox, single ticket, six dollars (24s. English), return ditto, ten dollars (40s. English).

Breakfast and tea, 50 cents (2s. English) each meal; dinner, 75 cents (3s. English).

Freight.—To all places between Victoria and Nanaimo, three dollars (12s. English) per ton of forty feet.

From Victoria to Comox four dollars (16s. English) per ton.

All cattle to Cowichan, Maple Bay, and Admiral Island, three dollars (12s. English) per head.

To Chemanis, four dollars (16s. English); Nanaimo, five dollars (20s. English); and to Comox, six dollars (24s. English).

Small animals, such as calves, sheep, pigs, &c., from fifty cents (2s. English) to one dollar and fifty cents (6s. English).

Mileage.—From Victoria to Cowichan, 36 miles; thence to Maple Bay, 9 miles; thence to Admiral Island, 5 miles; thence to Chemanis, 7 miles; thence to Nanaimo, 22 miles; and thence to Comox, 55 miles.

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A second steamer runs along the East Coast, when the traffic seems to require an additional one.

Victoria (in Vancouver Island) and New Westminster (on Mainland).

A steamer goes regularly twice a week, at least, between Victoria and New Westminster; running time, 6 hours.

New Westminster to Yale (Head of Navigation on Fraser River from Sea).

Stern-wheel steamers, which frequently take a day or more according to state of the stream. Sleigh-road for winter, when sleighing is possible.