(During World War I the park was used for the cultivation of vegetables.) Mount McBride, a peak in Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, is also named after the premier. Also named for him is McBride Boulevard in New Westminster which is the western ramp for the Pattullo Bridge. Premier McBride was very anti-immigration and had strong prejudices against people descended from Asia, views which he campaigned on widely. McBride was strongly in favour of restricting immigration, expelling people of Asian descent and sought to build a "White man's province." McBride echoed these sentiments in 1909: "We stand for a white British Columbia, a white land and a white empire."