British Columbia’s Century of Growth and Exploration
The article traces British Columbia from vast forested lands to a bustling province. It covers early exploration by Cook and Vancouver, the North West Company and Hudson Bay Company fur trade, settlement of Fort Victoria, coal and mining booms, Oregon boundary disputes, and the 19th century push to join Canada with the Canadian Pacific Railway completed in 1885, fueling rapid development.
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Pacific
Burkes Channel
Vancouver
Great Lakes
Columbia
Simon Fraser
New Caledonia
Great
New Westminster
Dominion
Fraser
David Thompson
Columbia River
Pacific Fur Company
John Jacob Astor
New York
North-West Company
Fur-Trading Company
Hudson Bay Company
Imperial
Distri
Western Department
Fort Vancouver
Sandwich Islands
Vancouver Island
Victoria
England
Nanaimo
San Francisco
Oregon Country
Oregon
British Columbia
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
James Douglas
Hudson’s Bay
Port Hope
Lytton
Canadian National Railways
Dominion of Canada
Canada
Canadian Pacific
Atlantic
Canadian National Railways Promises Vast Western Wealth
The article extols Canada’s railway expansion through 1914 and 1915 with new transcontinental lines to Prince Rupert and Vancouver, forming part of the Canadian National Railways system. It highlights 14 000 miles of public lines, vast untapped resources in the Rockies, rich forests and fisheries, and an ideal climate drawing investors and tourists to the Pacific province.
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Prince Rupert
Canadian Northern
Vancouver
Ihese
Canadian National Railways
Dominion
Rocky Mountains
Mexico
United States
Canada
Pacific
Freezone Promises Quick Relief for Corn Pain
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn remedy. A tiny bottle costs a few cents and claims to remove hard or soft corns and calluses between toes without soreness or irritation.
Milburn Heart and Nerve Pills Promote Recovery from Palpitations
A Ontario woman reports heart palpitations and dizziness improved after using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. She says six boxes restored strength, reduced dizziness, and allowed long walks again, noting weight gain from 120 to 154 pounds. The product is sold at 50 cents per box or by mail from the Milburn Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Milburn Co., Limited
Toronia
Saskatchewan stages strong Armenian relief effort
Relief for starving Armenians shows Saskatchewan already contributing 12143 dollars and 88 cents by mid February. Cash and grain donations are nearly equal at 6515 dollars 59 cents and 5628 dollars 24 cents with 500 to 600 bushels unsettled. Towns North Battleford Humboldt Aberdeen Lloydminster Rosthern plan to raise a car of wheat. Conditions have limited appeals but response is substantial and pledge-card totals await verification.
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Saskatchewan
North Battleford
Humboldt
Aberdeen
Lloydminster
Rosthern
A Sultan's Watch Made for Abdul Medjid in 1844
In 1844 a five inch diameter watch of twenty two carat gold was crafted for Sultan Abdul Medjid by a Cornhill firm. It chimed the hours and quarters with a wire struck mechanism and cost twelve hundred guineas. Eighty million people in Central Africa are still pagan.
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Sultan Abdul Medjid
Cornhill
Central Africa
Famine in Soviet Russia Narrated by Col. Mackie
Ottawa figure Col. H J Mackie reports on famine along the Volga after six days there under Soviet escort. He describes dead piled high, cannibalism alleged, and praises Red Army discipline. He cites crop failure and raids by Wrangel Denikin Kolchak as causes. His Save the Russian Children Fund has shipped 150000 tons of food at low cost and seeks further funding via Kiwanis and similar groups.
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Russia
Lenine
Trotsky
Red Army
Canada
United States
Col. H. J. Mackie
Ottawa
North Renfrew
Save the Russian Children Fund
Volga River
Col. Mackie
England
Moscow
Volga
Kie
Red Guards
Volga Basin
Wrangel
Denekin
Kolchak
Volga District
Save the Children Fund
Mackie
St. John
Edmonton
Kiwanis Club
Trans-Pacific flight plan proposed by ex RAF pilot
J Roach, once with the Royal Air Force, envisions a near term trans Pacific aerial service with Canada backing and French aircraft. He aims to qualify for commercial flying in Canada and secure a machine from Le Maurice Farman in Rouen. The route would skirt Alaska, the Aleutians, Behring Sea, Kamchatka, and coastlines of Asia with fuel and supply stops every 5000 to 1000 miles.
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J. Roach
Royal Air Force
Canada
le Maurice Farman Aeroplanes Ltd
Rouen
France
B.C
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Behring Sea
Kamchatka Peninsula
Roach
Dominion
Canada First resolution urges MPs to see Canada first
The Calgary Board of Trade adopts a resolution asking all members of parliament to study Canadian conditions firsthand before legislating. The aim is to boost knowledge of railway, agricultural and development issues and enable more effective national problem solving. The text also notes willows readily take root when planted in wet ground.
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Calgary Board of Trade
Canada
Dominion
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By Here
Todd
People of
North Pacific Coast
Strait of Amnion
New Spain
Californian
James Cook
Nootka Sound
North Pacific
George Vancouver
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Puget Sound
Gulf of Georgia
Queen Charlotte Sound
Great Britain
Alexander Mackenzie
Montreal
Arctic
T. B. Macaulay
The
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Wv. C. French
the Times
Wetaskiwin
Alta
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
WN. UU
Trip
Milburn
Air Force
SPOHN
Spohn Medical Company
Goshen
Indiana
U.S.A
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