The Physical Basis of Agriculture in British Columbia

V. C. Brink and L. Farstad: Physiography of the Agricultural Areas of British Scientific Agr., Vol. 29, 1949, pp. 273-301. 2 D. P. Kerr: Regional Climatology of Southern British unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1950. 3C. A. Rowles: Soil Outline of British in Transactions of the Second Resources Conference of British Columbia, Victoria, B. C., 1949, pp. 7-34. All in all, slightly over 4 million acres of the Province, or about 2 per cent of the total land surface is occupied for agricultural use and just over 1 million acres are cultivated.4 The unimproved land is used principally for cattle and sheep ranching. Agricultural regions per se do not exist in British Columbia, but agricultural districts, of which there are four, are recognizable (Fig. 3): the Coastal Valleys, the Southern Interior Valleys, the Nechako Pioneer Farming Belt, and the Peace River Bloc. The Coastal Valleys have approximately 370,000 acres of cultivated land of which approximately 95 per cent are found in the Lower Fraser Valley and the East Coast Lowlands of Vancouver Island within the Southern Coastal Trench. Of the 420,000 acres of improved land in the Southern Interior Valleys, over 160,000 acres occur in the Okanagan Trench. There are about 90,000 acres under cultivation in the Nechako district and 200,000 in the Peace River Bloc

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