Alberni Pioneer News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-04-09
issued: 1910-02-12
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/albernip/items/1.0441243/source.json
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note: '%A *\**4 ^fLe^lS^^ ALBERNI PIONEER %< VOL. ALBERNI, B. C. FEB. 12. 1910. NO 27 SPROAT LAKE IS TO BE FASHIONABLE RESORT Prominent People Buy Foreshore Land and Will Summer Homes—Terminus of Trans-Island Motor Run. Build As a fashionable Summer resort Sproat Lake, six miles from Alberni will commence to bloom with the return of the warm, sunny days. Sproat Lake has been talked about. or written about, by so many people who were made romantic or enthusiastic by a visit to it, that it has become known far and wide as the most beautiful lake in British Columbia. Up to the present its foreshore has been practically unoccupied, but enterprising real estate men were able to see the value of this layout, and they arranged to have the most advantageous tracts of land sub-divided, and placed on the market. With a little advertising there was a strong demand for the property, and the purchasers, in nearly every case, were people who wanted to use the land for what it had been intended—Summer homes. One of the purchasers, who will have a residence built on Sproat Lake next Summer, is Hon. Richard McBride. B. P. Davis, K. C, of Vancouver, is another; so is R. Marpole, vice-president of the E. & N. Railway company, and executive agent for the C. P. R. in the west. Mr. Senkler, of Vancouver, and others have also become owners and will put builders at work as soon as the weather is suitable. It is understood that there is something more to Sproat Lake as a Summer and Tourist resort than is, at present, visible. The Pioneer News is informed that it is to be the terminus •*i' the best and most enchanting automobile road in Canada. The new road which is now being built around Sooke through a beautiful country from Victoria to the Coal City, which, by the way, is a place that has some natural claims on the attention of the tourist. Straight on from Nanaimo to Alberni, with better surface and better grades over the Beaufort mountains, the work of improvement will be continued affording …
note: Alberni Pioneer News ran from 1907-08-17 to 1912-02-24. The name was changed to Port Alberni News starting 1912-03-02.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Port Alberni (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441243
language: English
lat: 49.234444
long: -124.805833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Alberni, B.C. : R. J. Burde
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