Western Canada harvest drive calls for fifty thousand workers
The article notes Western Canada will need around sixty nine thousand harvesters this year with nineteen thousand from Western and Prairie provinces already supplied, leaving about fifty thousand to recruit across Eastern Canada. It compares the exodus to a gold rush and outlines rail services, colonist trains, and excursion dates in August and September priced at 15 dollars to Winnipeg and a half cent per mile onward, open to both men and women.
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Canada
Prairie
Pras
Winnipeg
East
Quebec
Toronto
Ontario
Alberta Crop Shatters World Wheat Records
Alberta reports unprecedented grain yields exceeding 1922 records with kernels weighing up to 66 pounds per bushel. Notable figures come from Lacombe High River Nanton Claresholm and Vulcan as 800+ acre fields push 60 bushels per acre and railways expand grain transport producing a monster one mile long train of 126 car loads.
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Alberta
Lacombe
High River
Nanton
Claresholm
Vulcan
Brant
Weignea P
School of Agriculture
Calgary
Acteal Banff
Canadian Pacific Railway
Angus
Canadian Pacific
Stoughton
Arcola
Furs Arrive in Edmonton as Northward Trade Expands
The first batch of last winter's furs valued near one million dollars arrives in Edmonton from Aklavik aboard Distributor. Reports say good catches of furs across the north and a solid salmon season near Vancouver with 55 000 cases to date. Ontario teachers tour east while British educators travel west to learn about resources.
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Aklavik
Edmonton
Alta
Vancouver
B.C
Dean Sinclair Laird
Ontario
Canada
Hungarian Pioneer Founds Saskatchewan Town Becomes Mr John Szabo
In 1900 a Hungarian immigrant Mr Szabo Janos settled land in Saskatchewan with his wife and family. The village of Bekevar grew to about 1500 people and celebrated its 25th anniversary with a visit from Lt Governor W J Newlands. Szabo Janos, now John Szabo, still guides visitors to his old log cabin.
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John Szabo
Newlands
Apling
Sask
Kipling
Hungaria
Vnce
Szabo Janos
Hungary
Saskatchewan
Ily
Bekevar
Bekeyar
W. J
Great West
Canada
Hekevar
Victoria BC Erects War Memorial to Fallen Sons
The Lieutenant Governor Hon Walter Nichol unveiled Victoria's War Memorial in the Parliament Buildings grounds commemorating soldiers who died at Ypres Somme Vimy and other battles. The eight foot bronze figure sits atop a sixteen foot granite plinth. The cost was 5500 for bronze and wreathes with 7600 from public subscription. Mortimer and Sons erected the plinth. The Mareh brothers designed the sculpture amid nearby Queen Victoria bronze and the Empress hotel backdrop.
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British Columbia
Walter C. Nichol
Victoria
Ypres
Festubert
St. Eloi
Somme
Vimy
Pugcendaele
Parliament Buildings
Pateene
Nelson Island
B.C
Sydney Murch
Mareh
Farnborough
Kent
England
Vernon Mareh
Orillia
Mareh Brothers
Canada
Nichol
Mortimer and Sons
Queen Victoria
Parliament
Canadian Pacific
Empress Hotel
Victoria's
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North Bay
Smith Falls
C.P.R
Fulb
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G. M. Bosworth
Canadian Pacific Steamships
E. W. Beatty
Wolverine Pass
Canadian Pacific Rockies
Trail Riders
Canadian Rockies
LIC
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Ross Gordon Hamilton
Flanders
Ross Hamilton
Na Scotia
France
Commander Landy
R.N.R
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Ross
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