1 September 1993
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3 British Columbia Boosterism -- A 'British' British Columbia
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5 ....edited by Marijan Salopek
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9 The Okanagan and Fraser Valley fruit farmer is not the
10 docile habitant of Quebec; our loggers and miners in this
11 province are real men; while the great middle classes in our
12 British Columbia cities average up a people unequalled on earth.
13 If we are forced to it by Eastern Canada, we can separate
14 and pay our own way and go it alone; and we can be sure we will
15 have 100 per cent British support.
16 Victoria and Vancouver are world seaports. This province is
17 a great hunting and sporting country. And regardless of the
18 tongues and races in the rest of Canada, we are and propose to
19 remain, a British people.
20 There must be a more equitable sharing among Canadians of
21 things Canadian, or else this province must look about in self-
22 defence to find ways and means to federate these parts into a
23 DOMINION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.
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25 Source: , 14 May 1934, p. 1.