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The Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver It was indeed with pleasure that I accepted an invitation to write a foreword to this attractive brochure on the Lions Gate Bridge. My regret is that these lines should be penned in London and not in Vancouver. As Chairman of the Company responsible for the undertaking, I had hoped to be present in the city during the days when the splendid bridge was first thrown open for public traffic. This ambition was defeated by ill health and I have to be content to rest on past reflections, such as the opening of Stanley Park in 1888 by my good friend and chief, Frederick, The Right Honourable The Earl of Derby, then Governor-General of the Dominion. Another consolation is founded on the knowledge that the President and my colleagues on the Board of the First Narrows Bridge Company have enjoyed the honour and pleasure of witnessing the successful completion of the most attractive work which has engaged their interest and attention. The foreword need not dwell upon the design, the beauty or detail of the Bridge and its environment; that is for the brochure itself and its authors have well performed their task. On the other hand, a few words may well be written on the origin and inception of the splendid span which now links Stanley Park with the beauties of Capilano and the vast country to the northwards. To the great credit of the engineers, the contractors and of the workmen, the bridge itself may be said to have been constructed “in double quick time,” but the period of its inception was long and tedious. Several very prominent and responsible men interested in Empire development determined to back the scheme for a Narrows Bridge by giving it political and financial support and their action was in the end decisive, but as so often happens in movements of this kind, a great deal of time was cut to waste clearing away opposition and in obtaining the necessary francltises and authorities. 'I'he ultimate success was largely due to the good offices of the present Prime Minister of Canada, and to him our thanks are due. Vancouver is already an Empire City, and without doubt it is destined to become one of the trading centres of the world. The particularly interesting and slgnilicant work portrayed in this pamphlet will be held to mark an important chapter in the history of British Columbia, and I would venture to ask those who obtain a copy of the brochure of the Bridge to put it among their Household Gods as a souvenir of an historic undertaking worthy of retention during the years to come. THE RT. HON. LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I.