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- 3 - a purely reaidentisl suburb of Vaacourer. Prior to the land boom most z^esidents of V/est Vancouver were employed vithin the environs of the Kunieipality of North Vancouver. A majority of the population was employed at the Moodyville lumber mills. There were also a number of small farming ventures that partially supplied the mill town, the most notable being at Gleneagles. These ventures wore at best marginal and eventually died out due largely to poor soil in the area. Two canneries were also established in neat Vancouver, one at iiagle Harbour in 1897, the other Just east of Sandy Cove in 1898. They employed seasonal labour and few permanent resi- dents were directly involved in their operations. The industry of the district was on a email scale and of a primary nature. Why did no major industry, primary or secondary, develop in West Vancouver? Phyllis Walden® suggests that a lack of development can be ex- plained by the geography of the area. Primary industry had a brief tenure in the district with logging exterprises, shingle mills and the fisheries but most valuable stands of timber were logged off before the turn of the century and after 1900 the fisheries interests began looking north. Sub- stantial primary industry was shortlived in West Vancouver and the nigged topography and isolated position of the area did not provide an attractive environment for secondaiy industry. The very fact that West Vancouver had little primary industry and virtually no secondary industry later made it an attractive residential area. The land boom of 1905 in West Vancouver was sparked by tremendous growth in Vancouver. The city grew as it became a principal port in the trade with the Orient and a commercial canter for a resource-rich province. 8 Walden, co.cit.. p.7. ...*4.