Mr. and Mrs. C. H. French= received congratulations on the birth of a
fine daughter on December 1st.
Mr. F. B. Wombwell=, B.C. District accountant, returned from a visit to
Mayo Brothers, Rochester, Minn.
During the past month the H.B.C. Victoria office has had the pleasure of
visits from:
_Captain Evan J. Edwards, of Montreal, H.M. Senior Trade
Commissioner in Canada and Newfoundland; Mr. L. B. Beale, of
Winnipeg, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner, Department of Overseas
Trade, London; Captain Louis Knaflich, of the Kuskokwim Fishing and
Transportation Company, from whom the Hudson's Bay Company
chartered the "Ruby" for Western Arctic District; Captain J.
Bernard._
_Requires Long Trip to Inspect B.C. Posts_
To those of our readers who are "city folk" or whose travel is limited,
the following might prove interesting:
To make an inspection trip to the Hudson's Bay Company's Posts in
British Columbia District alone a distance of 3758 miles must be covered
as follows:
_404 miles by trails._
_974 miles by rivers._
_56 miles by lake._
_80 miles by automobile._
_976 miles by railroad._
_1268 miles by steamboat._