Romance of the Riders of the Plains in Western Canada
A historical account details how the Royal North-West Mounted Police transformed Western Canada from a hunting ground to a farming region. It highlights notable episodes and officers from Regina and Fort Qu’Appelle, including Sergeant Martin, Sergeant Gavine, and Sergeant Major Stewart, and recalls longtime outlaw “Dutch Henry” and the northern patrol loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Royal North-West Mounted Police
Scarlet Riders
Plains
Col. Ross
Mounted Police
Ontario
Pacific Ocean
Arctic
Regina
Arctic Circle
Prairies
India
Fort Ewan
United States
Martin
Fort Qu’Appelle
A. Stewart
Fort Qu’Apelle
Gavine
Inspector Fitzgerald
Henry
West
Major Stewart
Mr. Stewart
Record Salmon Pack Expected on British Columbia Rivers
Salmon canneries along the Keena River near Prince Rupert BC prepare for a busy season. Grand Trunk Pacific reports northbound tin plate shipments to canneries at Prince Rupert and Prince George. Workers will soon manufacture the cans for the packs as millions are produced yearly. Sockeye runs are not expected in large numbers until about June first, but 1914 is anticipated to be one of the best seasons in years.
Ottawa Citizens Advocates Restrict Crime Photo Printing
The Ottawa Citizens argue against publishing pictures of criminals in newspapers and call for a law to prevent images of respectable citizens from being printed. They claim sensational crime imagery may incite violence by arousing desire for murder in victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choquette
Ottawa
Britain’s Naval Strength Compared With Other Powers
The annual naval strength report lists vessels built and building across Great Britain and rivals. Britain leads in battleships with 58 built versus 35 for Germany and 21 for France, and holds a large lead in cruisers and torpedo craft amid ongoing orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Russia
Russian
British oil search eyed near Athabasca river north of Edmonton
The Canada Gazette reports British capital considering a 2 million dollar venture to prospect petroleum in North Alberta along the Athabasca river area six miles north of Edmonton. Extensions to lease rental timing are granted for townships 70 to 74 and ranges 23 to 26 west of the fourth meridian as preliminary surveys indicate promising petroleum prospects between Moose and Island Lakes, about 50 miles north of Athabasca Landing and 100 miles north of Edmonton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athabasca
Edmonton
Canada Gazette
Alberta
Moose
Island Lakes
Athabasca Landing
Canadian Aviation Company forms to sell planes and teach flying
The Canadian Aviation Company Limited of Toronto is incorporated with $50,000 capital to sell monoplanes bi planes flying boats and flying machines. It will supply pilots teach beginners exhibit operate garages hire trade and manufacture air conveyances. William Archibald Dean is the leading director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Aviation Company, Limited
Toronto
Archibald Dean
Condensing Electricity Demonstrated by Madrid Inventor
Signor Iglesiasac an electrician of Madrid demonstrated an apparatus for condensing and utilizing atmospheric electricity. He lit and extinguished fifteen bulbs at six hundred yards, using a simple device. Experts say the discovery could lower industrial current costs. Marconi earlier lit a bulb six miles distant by wireless current from a 100 horsepower engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor Iglesiac
Madrid
Iglciac
William Marconi
German Methods in English Coalfields at Doncaster
Doncaster district coal mine project adopts German techniques including freezing the shaft and German machinery from Essen. A £200000 contract for gear is secured, with all equipment imported from Germany. A model mining village and pithead baths for workers are planned reflecting Westphalian methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English
Doncaster
Essen
Germany
Congo Reforms Move Toward Autonomy and Budget System
Reforms urged by King Albert progress in the Congo. Belgium plans to endorse past and future debts, grant greater administrative autonomy, and transfer governance to Boma. A regular yearly budget will be introduced and judicial power reorganized to grant colonial agents police authority similar to some British colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Albert
Africa
Belgium
Leopold
Boma
Flour Exports From Western Mills Boost Orient Trade
Alberta mills including Ogilvie Medicine Hat and Ellison Lethbridge lead flour shipments to Japan China. Calgary firms Western Milling and Robin Hood also export strongly. Germany exports doubled in six years with 1908 at 1 962 740 barrels. Fort William and Grand Trunk Pacific elevator annexes near completion by Stewart Company of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Lethbridge
Alberta
Ogilvie
Medicine Hat Milling Co
Ellison Milling Company
Japan
China
Western Milling Company
Robin Hood Mills
Moose Jaw
Canada
Germany
Canadian Pacific Railway
Fort William
Grand Trunk Pacific Elevator
Stewart Company of
Chicago
Four British Warships Sold At Auction Led by Renown
Four superannuated British warships fetched sums at auction led by the battleship Renown which sold for £39,000. The Resolution realized £35,650 the Forte £18,500 and the Medea £10,275. The Scylla failed to meet reserve with £11,800 top bid.
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Portsmouth
Mediterranean
Fisher
Lord Fisher
India
Resolution
Forte
Vulgar Habit of Smoking Through the Ages
A compact note recalls how public smoking shifted from taboo to common practice. Citing Gladstone’s rare smoking, and Frederic Harrison’s continued aversion, the piece contrasts Victorian norms with modern habits as noted in T.P.'s Weekly.
No Wireless for the Arctic Regions
The Canadian navy department opposes Stefansson’s plan for Arctic wireless stations. Port Nelson’s new station is already working well and capable of nightly, cross ocean communication. Three more stations are planned in Hudson Bay and the Straits, but the trans Atlantic Polson system awaits next summer’s operation.
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Port Nelson
Department of the Naval Service
Canada
Explorer Stefannson
Arctic
Stefannson
Herschel Island
Karluk
Department
Pas
Pacific
Esquimault
Honolulu
Japan
Port Arthur
Atlantic
Hudson Bay
Straits
Mancel Island
Hudson Straits
Ash Inlet
Button Islands
Imperial
Museum of Peace Plans NYC Exposition Complex
The Museum of Peace association met in New York to discuss a 25 million dollar group of buildings for exhibitions on aviation gardening and allied arts. The organization's charter aims to establish permanent memorials of the 1814 Ghent peace era with directors including Jacob H. Schiff Elbert H. Gary Robert E. Peary Melville E. Stone and Theodore N. Vail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Association For
City of
New York
Ghent
Jacob H. Schiff
Elbert H. Gary
Robert E. Peary
Melville E. Stone
Theodore N. Vail
Fishing claim over seizure by Canada dates to 1887
The British American pecuniary claims commission heard a case in Washington challenging $50,000 in damages from the seizure by Canada of the Gloucester fishing schooners Argo Naut and Jonas H French. The defense contends the vessels and seines drifted beyond the three mile limit off Nova Scotia while the plaintiffs argue the boats were within lawful waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Gloucester
Argonaut
Jonas H. French
Washington
Homestead map update for Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta
The twelfth edition of the Homestead map from the Ottawa interior department shows land status as of January 1 1914 for Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. The three sheets detail home steaded lands Indian reserves timber berths grazing leases post offices railways and more with free distribution now available in Manitoba.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
F. C. C. Lynch
Department of the Interior
Missionary Hero Bishop Stringer of the Yukon
The life of Bishop Stringer, Church of England missionary to Eskimos on Herschel Island, then Whitehorse, who became Bompas successor after 1906. He led a vast Yukon diocese of about 206000 square miles with Dawson Carcross and White Horse as key bases, guiding work among whites and about one thousand Indians chiefly in the Church of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Stringer
Yukon
Church of England
Canada
Herschel Island
Arctic Ocean
Stringer
Herschell Island
White Horse
Dawson
Carcross
Charing Cross Depots Grows as Busy World Rail Hub
The rebuilt Charing Cross station in London now hosts four rail systems stacked to different levels with the Bakerloo Hampstead District and Southeast ern and Chatham lines. 900000 trains are projected to pass a single point yearly with about 15000000 passengers served across 26 routes.
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Charing Cross
London
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Bakerloo
Hampstead
District Railway
Southeastern
Chatham
Trafic
Charing Cross Station
Maderick
London Electric Railways
Woman Engineer Denied License in Regina
Mrs Victor Garnist, a Minnesota licensed engineer for twenty years, sought a license in Regina to operate her husband's traction engine but was refused because Saskatchewan law limits engineering qualification to males over 18. She argues many women in the province could become engineers if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Garnist
Minnesota
Regina
Saskatchewan
British Women Urged to Emigrate to Canada
The British Women's Emigration Association in London promotes sending well‑manned, educated women to Canada under matron care. The Bishop of Yukon cites a 700,000 to 800,000 male surplus. association hosts in London and British Columbia have aided over 16,000 women since 1884.
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Yukon
Canada
United States
British Women's Emigration Association
Mansion House
London
British Columbia
Association
Dominions
City Plans Horse Breeding In Regina Farm Program
Regina intends to expand from oats for city horses to a larger live stock program. The city owns nearly 100 horses now used by the fire department street cleaning and health departments. It will feed 400 acres of city land to oats this year with about 300 acres threshed in fall and the rest fed as green sheaves.
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Regina
Inca Mummy From Chili Heads to Halifax Exhibit
Halifax based collector T G Taylor brings a 2000 year old Inca mummy to Halifax Provincial Museum for loan. The compact figure stands about a foot tall in a squatting pose with hands on its knees. In Chile’s Antofagasta region officials note Incas practiced shrinking corpses after death, as observed in railway construction skeletal finds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. Taylor
Halifax
N.S
Chili
Taylor
Antifagasta
BC Fish Export from Grimsby Fresh Halibut Reported
J E Ray Canadian trade commissioner in Birmingham notes two months ago successful imports of frozen halibut from British Columbia by Grimsby fish merchants. He says trial shipments may be made by fish firms in large consuming centres and several Birmingham firms seek to correspond with reliable exporters for next season.
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J. E. Ray
Birmingham
British Columbia
Fsh
Grimsby
Mr. Ray
Trade Potential Seen In Egg Exports From China
Attention turns to growing egg shipments from China via the Canadian Pacific steamers and the Ioyal Mail Steam Packet. Proposals suggest adding refrigerating gear to trans Pacific liners and bidding for the business.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Ioyal Mail
China
Canadian Pacific
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Romance OF the Riders OF the Plains
The
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Britain
Dickineon
BIG Oil Search
Canadian Aviation
Kng Albert
Mr. Gladstone
Edward
Prince of Wales
Frederic Harrison
T.P
Department OF Naval Service
Stefansson
Museum OF Peace
Homestead
New London
Pratter
Regina Headquarters
G. L. Bevar
Page Croft
B.C. Fist. Export
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