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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1927
Page
4
The Cranbrook Herald discusses Canada needing more immigrants to balance taxation and boost settlement, railways, farms, merchants, and industry. It cites global perspectives on empire cohesion, then reviews the Scottish Club of Canada yearbook 1927 with articles by Ralph Connor and a Scots bibliography and lists of Scots in government.
Mr and Mrs A E Leigh plan to occupy their Martin Avenue home soon. Merchants advertise top prices for beaver and musk rat skins after March 15. G S MacDonald of Cranbrook Drug and Book Co. has recovered well after an appendicitis operation at St Eugene Hospital and is now home.
Art Burch, formerly of this city, arrived Sunday from Fulton Nevada where he has lived recently and plans to stay awhile. He was greeted by friends especially the Odd Fellows Lodge. The forest service reorganizes districts with foresters moving. John M. Gibson shifts to headquarters as assistant forester and C takes his northern district post.
D Orchard of Nelson arrives while T A Clark from Prince Rupert comes to Nelson.
Kimberley notes list visits from Vancouver Cranbrook and Trail residents and business visitors. A milk truck begins Marysville service. roads drying. Easter exams underway. bridge events and lodge trips noted. Social visits include bridge games and a board of trade meet. local staff updates at CM and S Co and Roberson families mentioned. The outdoors section highlights Red and Gun and Silver Fox News April issue contents.
Canada has fifteen national parks totaling nearly six million acres. Tourism generates about 20 million dollars annually. Montreal was founded by Maisonneuve as a permanent settlement at Hochelaga in 1642, with Place Royale trading post established by Champlain in 1611.
The McDougall Memorial Hall in Kimberley, opened last weekend, is the final of three employee halls by C.M. and S. Co. It features lounges, reading rooms, a library, showers, a banquet room, gymnasium, bowling alleys, snooker, card rooms, and plans for baseball and volleyball. Membership is open to all Kimberley residents with operating costs funded by dues and small fees.
Special to The Herald Invermere British Columbia April notes Ice rotted conditions on Columbia Lake threaten travel as Little Jimmies Jimmie from the Kootenay Indian reserve drowns a horse after the ice gives way. Invermere Hotel Co leases its tourist hotel for one year to Mr Des Baillets who will run winter tour programs including walking rambling and mountain climbing trips and ski running fame in Switzerland marked by his brother Des Baillets manager of Montreal’s Ritz Carlton.
In the winter of 1919 1920 he organized the Sno Birds of Lake Placid an organization that earned him much credit. A complete re organization of the hotel is anticipated.
A weekly update notes 800000 trout fry placed in Sylvan Lake and 900000 in Buffalo Lake with plans for a further consignment to Red Deer River tributaries. Export pilchard to Europe to begin in bulk in September and 600 tons per ship contracted for several Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. months.
Calgary report notes the Vulcan well in Turner Valley has reached over 6000 feet with oil and gas encountered. Dr Colvert of Sooke River B C showcases a 33 pound record manger grown on his farm and recently sold a ton of mangels. Toronto dispatch says first fox shipment to the United Kingdom valued at 10000 left by Canadian Pacific Express with 16 foxes including the 1925 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair champion valued at 4600.
Ottawa reports that Britain may send a preliminary survey team to Canada in April to study the plan for erecting mooring masts for dirigibles. The British party’s exact personnel were not named but may include Major G H Scott, famed for piloting the R 34 across the Atlantic.
Senator the Hon. C. P. Beaubien tells the Canadian Senate that Western Canadian farmers enjoy the world’s lowest freight rates. He notes Canada charges 12 cents per bushel to move grain 794 miles, versus 22 cents in the United States for 708 miles. He claims the average Canadian grain rate is about 1 cent per bushel, far below the U.S. 80 cent average and higher in Argentina.
British immigrants suitable for farm work and domestic service arrive each steamer from the Old Country. Single men women couples and families and workers of other nationalities seek employment. If you can employ contact James Colley Assistant Superintendent of Colonization CPR Calgary 3 8
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