Nearly 300,000 persons live in this beautiful city, representing no less than 45 nationalities. Large Chinese and Japanese communities, each numbering about 20,000 people, lend Oriental colour to the city.
Vancouver, which celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 1936, is well-known for its hospitality—that frank, simple, natural hospitality symbolized by the vigorous hand-shake of its citizens. The unpleasant symbol of private property, the partition wall, is unknown there. Gardens of private residences open directly on to the street. There are no shutters to the windows.
Now covered with snow and next month adorned with flowers, Vancouver is keenly concerned with its intellectual and artistic culture. Ju the University of British Columbia, an admirable course of lecturers provides 2,000 students with the knowledge of science and literature. Just like other cities, Vancouver has a symphony orchestra which has to face, just as others, financial difficulties, but which seems to overcome them happily, M. Auge concluded.
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