Paula Smith
Royal LePage 4 Seasons Realty
Toll Free 866-425-3690
E-mail: paula@elkfordrealestate.net
Web Site
Nestled in the majestic Rocky Mountains, we have great prices on real estate and rentals. Come check us out!

Terry Blackburn
Royal LePage 4 Seasons Realty
Toll Free: 888-870-9064 Cell: 250-423-1161

Web Site
Serving the Elk Valley areas of Fernie and Sparwood in the East Kootenay Region of southeastern BC.

Steve Orsatti
Coast Realty Group
Phone: 250-716-7001

Gabriola Island real estate
Steve Orsatti is happy to assist you with your Nanaimo and Gabriola Island information, links, and real estate needs.

Kurt Day
Sunshine Valley Real Estate
Phone: 250-442-2711
E-mail: Kurt_Day@telus.net
Serving Grand Forks, Christina Lake, Greenwood, Midway, and Rock Creek.

Sherrie Boyte
Address Realty
Phone: 250-217-0338
E-mail: sherrie@propertyonpender.com
Web Site
Gulf Islands - Pender Island 40 minute ferry ride from Swartz Bay, near Victoria.

Crystal Okeson
Realty World Mackenzie
Phone: 250-997-6519
E-mail: okeson@perf.bc.ca
Mackenzie and McLeod Lake north of Prince George. Can do referrals to anywhere in BC or rest of Canada

Christine Louw B.A., LL.B. RE/MAX Select Properties Phone: 604-926-3936 North Vancouver Real Estate Top Realtor for superior results! Specializing in luxury homes and investment properties in Vancouver (Coal Harbour, False Creek North, Downtown, Yaletown, West End, etc), West Vancouver and North Vancouver. Transnational relocation certified Realtor.

Maggie Chandler Chandler Realty Ltd. Phone: 604-328-0077 Coal Harbour Condos Maggie Chandler has a special interest in selling condos in Vancouver's scenic Coal Harbour neighbourhood. She wishes her clients real estate transaction to be as smooth as possible and dedicates much time to educating them about the process.

Ken Wyder Re/Max Select Properties Phone: 604-889-9394 Vancouver Real Estate Realtor Ken Wyder has a lengthy list of satisfied clients whose real estate needs range from small apartments to large estates.

Brent Richards
Re/Max Sabre Realty Group
Phone: 604-942-0606
E-mail: richards@lynx.bc.ca
Long time resident of the Tri-City Area. Hard working for my clients and active in Dog Rescue & Cancer Charities.

Li Read
Sea to Sky Premier Properties (Salt Spring)
Phone: 250-537-7647

Salt Spring Island Real Estate
Canadian Southern Gulf Islands: Salt Spring, Pender, Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, & smaller Islands. Site includes market analysis, slide shows.

Dawn Taylor
Re/Max Vernon
Phone: 250-309-4092
E-mail: dawn@dawntaylor.ca
Web Site
Serving the central and north Okanagan. I promise to make your real estate experience as pleasant and easy as possible.

While forestry, mining, fishing and agriculture remain important to B.C.'s economy, there is strong growth in new industries such as eco-tourism, agri-tourism, film and high tech. British Columbia is Canada's gateway to the Asia-Pacific and is economically and geographically part of the northwest region of North America. More than half the population lives in the southwestern corner of the province, which includes the largest city, Vancouver, and the provincial capital, Victoria.

Only about 3 percent of the province’s total area is agricultural land, but the land that is farmed is extremely productive. The Peace River area produces most of the grain harvested in British Columbia. Cattle and dairy farms account for one-third of the annual farm income. Ranching is concentrated on the grassland plateau of the south central interior. Dairy farming is especially important in the Lower Fraser Valley. Important crop-raising areas are the Lower Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island, where truck farming (farming for nearby urban markets) predominates, and the Okanagan Valley, where fruits and vegetables are raised on irrigated land. Fruit is also grown commercially in the Creston area of southeastern British Columbia. The province is a leading Canadian producer of apples, cherries, and plums (mainly from the Okanagan Valley), and raspberries and cranberries (from the Lower Fraser Valley). Flowers and bulbs are a specialty crop of the southwest.

While the commercial fishing industry accounts for only a small share of the annual gross domestic product in British Columbia, it remains important to many coastal communities with fishing fleets. Five species of Pacific salmon—pink, coho, chinook, chum, and sockeye—are caught. These fish are anadromous, that is, they are hatched in fresh water, then spend their adult lives in the sea before returning, three to five years later, to their native stream to spawn. Although heavily managed, salmon stocks have fluctuated widely. Competition between U.S. and Canadian fishing fleets is regulated by the Pacific Salmon Commission, but as resources decline, tensions rise. The issues have been further complicated by the expansion of fishing by indigenous peoples in recent years.

Among British Columbia’s natural resources, forestry has been the leading sector of the economy throughout the 20th century; the province has one-fifth of the commercial forest land in Canada. Forestry supplies raw materials for the province’s most important manufacturing industries. About 40 percent of the lumber cut in British Columbia comes from the coastal regions, which is where logging began in the province in the 1840s. Nearly all of the output is Douglas fir, hemlock, and western red cedar. Most of Canada’s plywood, well over half its lumber, and between one-fifth and one-quarter of its pulp and paper come from British Columbia. In recent years, the timber industry has come under heavy criticism for the extent of its logging, its insistence on the need to cut remaining old-growth forest, and the ecological impacts of its logging practices. The proportion of the labor force employed in logging and forestry is falling, and the industry is no longer as important in the British Columbian economy as it once was.

The principal metals produced by the British Columbia mining industry are gold, copper, zinc, and all of Canada’s molybdenum. Silver, lead, and sulfur are also mined. Natural gas and coal are the most important products in terms of value. The major copper mines have been concentrated in the intermontane plateau (Ashcroft, near Kamloops; Merritt; Princeton; Summerland; Williams Lake). Coal has long been mined in southeastern British Columbia, near Fernie. Large amounts of capital were invested in the North East Coal project to open mines at Tumbler Ridge, between Prince George and Dawson Creek. These mines were intended to supply Japanese markets, but their costs have been prohibitively high. The major markets for British Columbia’s mining industry are outside of Canada, making the industry subject to changes in the international economy. Petroleum and natural gas are extracted in the northeast, and new large natural gas reserves have been located in the sedimentary rocks of this area, which already supplies markets in southern Canada and the northwestern United States by pipeline.

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