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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
4
Cumberland residents travel to Vancouver and Hastings Park for Caledonian games and vacations. Several families journey to Vancouver or the island, while local tea parties and whist events entertain guests and honor guests with prizes and peanut races.
Difficulties over wages trigger strikes across the pilchard industry in British Columbia affecting about 1200 men. Isolated districts on the West Coast of Vancouver Island already have protests, with operators fearing plant closures due to fish shortages. A Sunday meeting between plant managers and fishermen representatives was authorized at the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association offices. The industry has 27 reduction plants valued with gear and boats at 5 million dollars.
Victoria Aug 6 A fifteen mile extension of the British Columbia Electric Railway’s light and power services is under investigation. The decision hinges on a survey of potential subscribers in a triangular area from Shawnigan Lake to Mill Bay with a Cobble Hill apex. A branch toward Strath is proposed with service from the current line now ending at Bamerton and along the Island Highway.
I W Beatty honors two CPR employees for over a century of combined service Charles Henderson conductor since 1876 and Harry Saunders engineer with 48 years in CPR. Western Canada crops outlook bright with about 25 000 000 acres sown to wheat this year and a 533 000 000 bushel Canadian wheat harvest last year.
In Drumheller on Friday evening Communist speakers from Vancouver and Edmonton were barred from using the town hall by proprietor Kid Burns born Lewis McDonald. Police maintained order as the crowd gathered on a dirt pile north of Miners Hall where Burns declared the hall would not host Communist meetings. Burns criticized Communism as a failure and urged respect for Miners Union meetings, noting his past imprisonment for Communist activity.
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