“Land prices are high, it is said, higher than anything would warrant,” reads an article by R.J. McDougal, in the 1911 issue of B.C. Real Estate Magazine. “’Why, the workingmen cannot afford to pay at the rate demanded for these tiny outside lots’, asserted one man recently. The same thing was said here twenty years ago, answer the pioneers; others of us know that it was repeated ten years ago and five years ago, and our children and our children’s children will hear the same tale of woe decades hence.”