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October, 1909 "TAE Marine Review 363 Fic. 4--Marine RaItway oF THE VictortA MacuINery. Depot Co., Lrp., Vicrorra, B. C. THe Ramway Was Burtt sy CRAn- ,DALL, OF Boston. _ 6 The inner harbor consists of Burrard Inlet, Port Moody and North Arm. North Arm and Port Moody are sep- arated from Burrard Inlet by a nar- row, 12-fathom channel known as the Second Narrows. The whole inner harbor is protected on the north by a range of mountains rising almost abruptly from the shore and attaining a maximum altitude of 4,880 ft. On the south protection is afforded by a low range of hills and a wide stretch of wooded country... The pro- tection from storms, inside the First Narrows, is absolutely complete. Burrard Inlet, on the 'southern shore of which the city of Vancouver is built, thas a shore line ten miles _in length; the shore line of Port Moody is 14 miles and of North Arm is 22 miles, making the total Shore line of Vancouver's inner har- bor 46 miles. All of this is available for docks and wharves. The average depth of Burrard Inlet ibe. 14 fathoms, of Port Moody 10 fathoms and of North Arm 75 fath- oms. The maximum depths of Bur- rard Inlet, Port Moody and North Arm are respectively 34, 14 and 103 fathoms; the minimum depths are, seven, three. and 34 fathoms respect- ively. - The water area of: Burrard Inlet. is eight >sq. miles, of Port Moody eight sq. miles and of North Arm 11 sq. miles, making the total area of the inner harbor, 27 sq. miles. The harbor is well tbuoyed and lighted. In fact the only drawback from a navigator's standpoint is the strong tide that makes through the Narrows. This current frequently reaches a velocity of five knots an hour, the tidal variation being 13% ft. The strong tide, narrow channel and large amount of shipping some- times combine to make the entrance to Vancouver's inner harbor danger- ous. This is specially the case at night or in thick weather. Vancouver is amply supplied with deep sea docks, these being all located on the southern shore of Burrard In- let, between the First and Second nar- rows. The docks: of the Canadian Pacific Railway alone have a frontage of 3,000 ft. All the docks have 26 ft. of water at extreme low tide. All the piers are provided with railway spurs and are built on the same level as the Canadian Pacific freight ter-- 'minal yards, making the 'transfer of freight from cars to ships an easy matter. In conformity with the usual practice on the Pacific coast the piers are of wooden construction through- out. Vancouver's present dock facil- ities, 'with the exception of grain transfer elevators, are adequate and there is also room for an expansion of 800 per cent in the tpresent dock frontage before the harbor will be- come congested. : While Vancouver has no steel foun- dries, its repair facilities are ample. It is well provided with gray iron and brass foundries, machine shops, sheet metal works and forging plants. There are a number of shipyards with marine railways of sufficiently large capacity to handle any ordinary coasting ves- sel. Among these may be mentioned the marine railway owned by the Brit- ish Columbia Marine Railways Co., Ltd., which has a maximum capacity of 2,500 tons. A new 1,100-ton float- ing pontoon drydock is being built