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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
4
An obituary style note mentions Cory Teputy in a draft lineage within the ministerial ranks of the Tater and Thept realms. No further context or dates are provided in the fragment.
The writer extols the Canadian Northwest's transformation from barren lands to a thriving empire. He praises the Canadian Pacific Railway for birthing Vancouver and blossoming cities like Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, noting vast resources, new farms, and opportunities for hundreds of millions, with rail routes linking oceans and continents.
A promotional passage extols fertile land in the mountains with rivers forests and lakes. The article shifts to a school April report noting 224 pupils with 106 boys and 117 girls and various attendance averages and names of students achieving best attendance. It then mentions baths for flies at a barber shop and a 210 acre stock farm on St Martins river with irrigation water, followed by a land purchase notice in South East Kootenay District and Wattsburg Limber Co Ltd notices.
A notice dated April 2 105 announces an application within 30 days for a special license to cut and remove timber from a 640 acre area comprising lands in Southeast Kootenay. The description covers multiple license boundaries and parcels including Spences Jamieson March and pre emption No 44.
Sixty days after this notice applicants will seek permission from the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works to purchase described parcels in South East Kootenay and nearby areas. The first describes land along the Moyie river and railway right of way, involving a post and river boundary in a cadastral claim. The second outlines land near the Kootenay river from Humphrey's claim to the river, totaling about 120 acres. Also notice of a liquor license transfer in Marysville from Fred Drew to George H. Wales for the Royal hotel, filed 24 April 1905.
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