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THE JEWISII4^ BULLETIN
Thursday,-Sept. 13, 1934
PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
MR. JOSEPH ROSE
President of the .Congregation Emanuel and active communal worker of Victoria, extends his hearty felicitations to Vancouver and Victoria Jewry on the New Year and wishes to thank all who aided him in his work during the past year.
MR. RALPH FROMSON
Secretary of the Congregation Emanuel, and active Ben Brith, wishes ail his Jewish friends in Vancouver and Victoria a very happy New Year, and well over the fast.
Attend the Bialik Memorial
SALMON TIME IN VICTORIA, B. C.
By FRANK GIOLMA.
Sharply etched vistas of snow-capped mountains and emerald green islands floating on a blue sun-flecked sea; English skylarks rising from the sweet-scented meadowlands of Cadboro Bay singing their great song of praise; garden, cottage and countryside abloom with the full sweetness of midsummer; yachts weighing anchor for Northern ports; men in launches, row-boats, wherries and canoes, on bays, estuaries and off islands, fishing—^for July and August are salmon time in Victoria, British Columbia.
These fish, tyee and cohoe salmon, are caught at all seasons of the year, but during the months of July and August they ccme in massed battahons from the feeding grounds in mid-Pacific, each individual fish heading homewards imerringly back to the river or stream in which it was bom.
Consider for a moment taking a.fighting eight to fifteen poimd cohoe or twenty to forty pound spring with a bucktail
fly on the end of three himdred feet of silk line, or shorter silk
backed by cuttyhunk controlled by a greenheart or spUt-cane
six ounce rod. If you are a fly fisherman no further words
iire necessary. Each summer anglers come to Vancouver Islsind
from all quarters of the globe to pit their skill against these fish,
which are proclaimed as being equal in pugnacity to their
Scotch or Atlantic cousins. Whether they are conscious of this
high honor and appreciate it I, of course, do not know.
Some of the best known fishing waters are: from the entrance to Victoria harbor eastward to Oak Bay, especially o£E Brotchie Ledge, Fowl Bay, and the Oak Bay Golf Course; Saan-ich Arm and Brentwood Bay; and moving northward up the East Coast of the Island, Cowichan Bay, Qualicum Beach, Co-mox and Campbell River. Campbell River is especially popular because owing to the shallowness of the water the big tyees, although usually a deep water fish, here come to the surface and will, therefore, more readily take light lure or fly.
Boats with or without boatmen can be hired at all the places jiientioned, and reasonably priced, suitable accommodation is available. It will probably add to the visitor's chance of suc^ c*»ss if he call in eri route at the Victoria Free Information Bureau, 1119 Government Street, and obtain the latest news as to catches at the different locahties, for as the fish move up tlie coast the fishing varies in different waters—one day everyone getting the limit, the next day a fisherman being lucky if he gets one or two fish. Apart from this, all the visiting fishermen needs is equipment, skill and, last by no means least, luck.
VANCOUVER ISLAND'S LAKES, STREAMS, AND
By FRANK GIOLMA.
It has been said that there are so many rivers, lakes, streams and waterfalls on Vancouver Island that it is impossible to move about the place without getting your feet wet. That, of course, is an exaggeration. But it-is a fact that there are probably more rivers, lakes and wateifalls on the Island than can be
foimd within an equal area.|-13,000 square miles—^anjrwhere else in the world. This is due to the geological formation and tne geographical position of Vancouver Isl^
The Island is a moimtain; range that rises straight from the bed of the Pacific Ocean, sonie of the higher peaks towering to nearly 8000 feet above the sela. Among these spinal peaks are deep mountain lakes, glaciers and snowfields. Not just one or two lakes, pr a mere baker's Sdozen, but more than a thousand and one.. Some are in the heart of the hills, lying along the bas-es of parallel ridges of —forming, in many, cases, continuous chains.
Others, sohtary, lie embosomed among the mountains. Among the rocky, pine-clad: hills they lie, clear and calm, fringed by the willow, the alder and the trembling aspen, the tender green of the foliage brightly, yet softly reflected in the simshine from the watery mirror, while reaching across as if to grasp the light, the ;dark purple outline of the shadow of a frowning peak envelope:'the farther side in gloom.
The chief impression formed on a trip into the heart of Vancouver Island is one qfclamazement at the profusion and diversity of Nature's wonders. The Island abounds in aU the attributes of nature in itk primeval conditions; giant forests; surdit lakes bounded by btild rock shapes and overshadowed by snowy peaks and glaciers reflected in their placid, sun-lit, vari-colered waters; rushing torrents with deep trout-filled pools; timbered valleys—vales of the giants—leading to deep greves on the lower slopes^v above which are snow-flecked passes beneath noble peaks, majestic in their grandeur, rising with rugged edges and lofty spires; lace falls leaping from white, pale blue and green glaciers; little lakes of blue, green and t!irquoise that sparld^ .like ,j^ set in velvet, some lying above timber-line in brown rock basins trimmed with heather srid gay-hued alpine flora to the edge of the eternal snows reaching down dose to them. From the heights the panoramas are awe-inspiring in their majestic grandeur.
It is firom the glaciers, snowfields and lakes in this alpine heart of Vancouver Island that the rivers and streams have •their source, their waters roaring and chattering down from their mountain birthplaces, hurhng themselves over beetling crags and dashing through rocky chasms, mad with exuberance of virile youth, laughing with sheer joy as they hurry to lose themselves in the waters of the great Pacific Ocean. No dead sluggish streams these, but crystal dear and cold so that the sieelhead and cutthroat and rainbow trout lurking in them are firm of flesh and strong of spirit—^game fish, you understand.
You can camp if you want to on the edge of the water or
further back in the timber; or, if you wish to take your ease,
spend the evenings at a country inn. A real inn, you imdar-
stand, where the fish are lake trout and the food country grown
and the talk hohday-talk and the air full of the smell of fir
trees and aromatic cedar. Overhead a soft black velvet sky
spangled by a million stars, the only soimds in the night the
i:ccasional splash of a jumping fish and the eternal murmiu: of moving water.
Now, because you may think I am exaggerating—^and you would be justified in such a thought—I am going to put in the following short but official description of this glorious hoHday playground—a kind of Exhibit "A," yoii imderstand.
"The area of Vancouver Island is 13,000 square miles; length nearly 285, in breadth 9 to 90 miles. Surface very mountainous and woody—flattens at both ends, and for part of its eastern side—^most mountainous region in the interior—highest mountains along spinal ridge and in the heart of the Island-
whole country full of lakes, streams and waterfalls — shores boldly picturesque—promontories, cHffs, natural harbors, coves and beaches. Between the mountains of the spinal range and the sea coast there are a large number of river valleys, the soil of which will grow anything. All rivers, lakes, and streams have been well stocked by nature with trout, rainbow, steel-head and cutthroat predominating. Over a thousand miles of good hard surface and macadam roads with almost as many miles of forest trails make travel easy and a pleasure.
VICTORIA HARBOR
The whole of the heart of Vancouver Island is a wonderful alpine mass dissected by deep valleys with rivers and lakes, alpine tarns, with a great number of peaks, ridges,, canyons and gorges, and a whole season could profitably be spent—^indeed, several seasons—seeing always new scenes. Various waterways clfer routes of travel to the mountains, fantastically shaped cathedrals of nature, their crests topped with ever-lasting snows and great glaciers, and a marvelous array of color in the alpine gardens that grow on their crags, for above the forests which clothe the lower levels. High up the crags are primrose moss, white and purple heather, alpine edelweiss, pentatemon, gentians, valerians, phlox, ranxinculxis, rhododendrons, carpeting the uplands to the edge of the snowfields and gladers, and high among the mountain ridges are lake districts with waters of II any hues radiating the glorious moimtains.
Signs of elk are seen at places. Deer are plentiful. Black bear frequently seen. Panther are not often seen, except if systematically hvnted. Beaver are plentiful in most of the valleys. There are also otter and marten. Of feathered game, the grouse is found everywhere, the blue grouse on the hillsides and timbered ridges and willow grouse in the valleys. Ducks and peese of all varieties abound during the migratory seasons, and a few remain during the summer to breed. The loon is much in evidence at all times.
DOMINION GOVERNMENT A^TJRQFHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, VICTORIA, B.C.
. This telescope, the second largest in the world, is of the reflecting type, with a large concave mirror 73 inches in diameter, 12 inches thick, weighing about 4250 lbs., with the upper leflecting surface polished to an accuracy of one-four-hundred-^housandth of an inch, and brightly silvered. This mirror is flexibly supported at the bottom of a tube, 32 feet long and over 7 feet in diameter, which weighs 15 tons. The tube, notwithstanding its greAt weight, can be moved and pointed ac-ciu-ately and quickly to any part of the sky by electrical motors. It is pivoted on two shafts perpendicular to each other, the principal one being adjusted parallel to the axis of the earth, to enable the motion of the stars to be acciu'ately and automatically followed. The total weight of the moving part is about 45 tons, yet so beautifully is the mechanism constructed that it can be readily moved by hand if desired. It is contained in a special steel double-walled circular building, 66 feet in diameter, 75 feet high, with revolving hemispherical dome to enable any part of the sky to be observed.
The contract price of telescope and spectroscope was about $97,000, and the cost of dome and building $70,000. The in-ixtrument is much larger than the telescope of any other national observatory, and, in perfection of mechanical and optical design, and in accuracy and convenience of operation, is unexcelled in the world. The work with this telescope is astronomical research of the most advanced type, and it has already made contributions to astronomical knowledge.
The observatory is biiilt on the top of Little Saanich Mountain at an elevation of 732 feet and is six miles from the city of Victoria. It is open to the public daily, and on Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock lectures are given by Doctor Plaskett. The observatory is reached by good motor road and pubHc stages. Special sight-seeing cars leave at different times during the day and on Saturday nights for the lecture.
Indian War Canoe Race at the Gorge, Victoria
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HARRY MUSIKANSKY
Upiands, Residentail District, Victoria