SAYWARD SETTLERS GET GOVT HELP
The Provincial Government plans to settle Sayward valley by placing many prairie settlers on farms there. J E Armishaw reported to cabinet ministers in Victoria promising government aid. Six more miles of road will be built to reach lands. An appraiser will value land and locate owners, with 2500 acres available if values satisfy. Most settlers are experienced farmers seeking a milder climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayward
J. E. Armishaw
Victoria
Not Yet But Soon Infant Son of Campus Professor
Comic caption from Gargoyle humor column. A mother asks about a ladder accident as her infant son references a stepladder fall. The punchline reveals the father is “hanging to the picture moulding” in a cartoonish gag.
Land Act Amendments Outline Pre emptions and Leases
Vacant Crown lands may be pre empted by British subjects over 18 and aliens intending to become British subjects. Occupancy residence and improvements required for five years before Crown Grant. Details in Bulletin No 1 and No 10. Purchases for arable land priced at 96 per acre and grazing at 2 per acre. Industrial timber land up to 40 acres may be bought or leased. homesites require dwelling in first year. Grazing districts managed by Grazing Commissioner with annual permits and range associations. Free permits available for settlers and travellers up to ten stock.
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Department of Lands
Victoria
B.C
Coast Range
Land Commissioner
Forestry Car to Visit Courtenay on March 3
The Forestry Car of the Canadian Forestry Association tours Vancouver Island visiting Parksville on March 1 Courtenay March 3 and Alberni March 4. The mobile exhibit shows watershed forest value and erosion damage using two part visuals and models and includes a $1000 exhibit plus a Marconi radio. G Gerald Blyth leads the unit supported by volunteers and government grants, drawing 15000 concerned Canadians to forest protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Forestry Association
Courtenay
Canadian National Railways
Canada
Marconi
G. Gerald Blyth
Parksville
Alberni
Desirable Settlers May Come to B C
Hon. T. D. Pattullo announces that British Columbia will offer progress loans up to 300 per family to Hebridean settlers if the British Government matches the sum. Homes would be on islands and along the coast with no employment guarantees, but settlers must help themselves. The move aims to aid distressed Scots and bring a valuable settler class to the province.
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T. D. Pattullo
F. C. Wade
British Columbia
Great Britain
Doles
Ford Story at a Busy Filling Station
On a hot day seven cars queued at a busy station. A rattling five-passenger car, leaking steam, sits near a gas pipe as the owner quips about the single available slot.
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Letty
Mr. Fliv
Rockefeller
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the Mercantile Store Co
G. H. Wycherley
Malkins
Malkin
Royal Crown Cleanser
Swift's
Cumberland, B.C
the Dominion Life Assurance Company
T. Humphries
Vancouver Island
Pemberton Bldg
B. CG
Cumberland
Cumberland, B. U
Billiard Parlor
McPhee
R. .B. Dier
Bruce Gordon
Dunsmuir Ave
Opposite
Ilo-Ilo Theatre
Cumberland, B. C
Homesite Leases
FORD
Rey Weer
Htefid
Mumford’s Grocery
TY. H. Mumford
Dunsmuir Avenue
J. Walton
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