Western Colonization Plan Seeks Land Settlement Board
Major General A D McRae promotes the Western Canada Colonization Association to speed settlers on unoccupied lands near railways. He asks Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta to create a Provincial Land Settlement Board, fix long term land lists, valuations, and a nonresident owner agent system to accelerate immigration and reduce tax burdens.
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T. A. Crerar
Western Canada
Canada
Western Canada Colonization Association
A. D. McRae, CB
Prairie Province
West
McRae
M. A. Brown
Medicine Hat
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
A. D. McRae
No Danger From Comets Says British Astronomical Association
Dr. Crommelin of Greenwich Observatory dismisses sensational comet collision warnings. He computes a roughly one in seventy thousand chance of head collision with a comet and far smaller odds for impact with the coma, predicting at most a great meteor shower rather than catastrophe.
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Halley
Greenwich Observatory
A. D. C. Crommelin
British Astronomical Association
Crommelin
Western Canada Draws Large US Farmer Immigration in 1920
The article notes nearly fifty thousand American emigrants settled in Canada in 1920 to become farmers. It highlights free homesteads or purchased farms, wartime shifts, border screening, and a projected wave of future settlers as trains of American editors toured the Canadian West and forecast up to one hundred thousand US farmers moving in.
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United States
Great Britain
Western Canada
Plairie
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Government
Western
Clove Harvests on Zanzibar and Pemba Islands Stir Senses
Ninety percent of the world supply comes from two tiny African islands, Zanzibar and Pemba. Native climate boosts cloves with intense heat as harvest reveals tall, olive-like trees and perfume-scented air that lingers on clothes for days.
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Africa
Zanzibar
Pemba
Tropics
Earth
Valuable Strontium Discovery at Penticton
A large body of strontium is reported near Penticton B C assaying about 70 to 75 percent purity. Strontium is used in sugar refining and refiners have recently sought supplies from Austria.
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Penticton
B.C
Austria
Electric seed treatment to boost grain yield in Alberta
A new Wolfryn Electro Chemical seed electrification process will be adopted by leading Southern Alberta farmers to increase yields limit disease spread and improve quality. Seeds are immersed in a calcium or sodium chloride bath then electrified briefly before drying. The method, new to Canada, has seen success in England and will expand capacity to meet demand.
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Alberta
Wolfryn
Canada
England
Advocate Calls Saskatchewan River Channel Expansion
Hon J L Cote Alberta minister of mines told Ottawa House coal shortages could be eased by widening the Saskatchewan River. Public Works surveyed a plan costing 20 million dollars to carve a six by 180 foot channel between Edmonton and Winnipeg. Freight costs would drop from six mills to 112 mills per ton mile. Water checks in the mountains would be needed, and power generation could cut overall costs.
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J. L. Cote
Alberta
Ottawa House
Saskatchewan
Public Works Department
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Eye surgery linked to Napoleon era war in Egypt
The piece notes that Britain's eye surgery history began after Sir Ralph Abercrombie’s Egyptian expedition. Contagious ophthalmia spread by returning troops from Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces caused widespread incapacitation. The eye disease spurred serious medical study in Britain.
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Great Britain
Egypt
Ralph Abercrombie
Timber revenue from Nova Scotia forests in 1920
The timber tracts of Nova Scotia remain a major revenue source. In 1920 the total cut reached about 350,000,000 feet with raw material value of $12,250,000. Estimated value of timber products for the year approaches $23,810,000.
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Nova Scotia
Alberta Farmers Import Dairy Stock
A Coaldale area dairy movement gathers 60 to 80 Ontario cows through a farmers association. They plan to sell milk locally and also manufacture butter, boosting the alfalfa region’s dairy economy.
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Alberta
Coaldale
Ontario
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the Land Board
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R. A. Pyne
Canadian Pacific Railway Western Lines
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