Vast CPR Wheat Train Concept Shows 375 Million Bushels Move
A Canadian Pacific Railway plan envisions 35 000 boxcars ready for the 1925 crop across the Prairie Provinces with 650 freight and 150 switch engines. If linked into one 290 mile long train at 20 mph it would require about 15 hours to pass a point, carrying roughly 52 500 000 bushels on first movement and illustrating the scale of the 375 000 000 bushels crop estimate for Canada.
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Transcona
Winnipeg
Peentegome
Prairie Provinces
Canadian Pacific Railway
Thea
Bcuve Judineu
Idiian Pacific
Great Lakes
A Winter At College And The Mercury Of Progress
A column urges education at Manitoba Agricultural College with fall courses and practical dormitory life. It contrasts two paths science degrees and diploma programs and cites a 1924 Canadian emigration balance, urging Canadians to stay home for prosperity and unity from coast to coast.
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Manitoba Agricultural College
Agricultural College
Immigrant Train Arrivals Prominent in Marquette Letter
Minnedosa August 14 1925 a note to electors of Marquette outlines reports of trains bringing immigrants from Europe to settle vacant lands in Western Canada. The letter references summer press coverage and discusses immigration arrivals in Winnipeg.
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Minnedosa
Marquette
Winnipeg
Europe
Canada
Foreclosure Notice Under Manitoba Real Property Act
Transmission Application No. 2014 seeks a final foreclosure order for Mortgage No. 137533. The lands described are the south half of Section 31, Township 14, Range 22 W in Manitoba. Notice to caveators and parties is issued with one month to lodge a caveat or take proceedings. The District Registrar appoints a final order unless redeemed or blocked.
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Confederation Life Association
Township
Manitoba
Canada and U S travel surge and farm labor shortages
The article notes a record travel year for Eastern transatlantic movement with over a quarter million Americans and Canadians expected to visit Europe. It cites Western farm labor shortages despite immigrant inflows, a government tally of grain cars inspected, and changes in fruit production value and life insurance in Canada in early 1925.
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Europe
Canadian Pacific
The
Bureau of Statistics
Canada
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Montreal
Mercury
U.S
New York World
Border Patrol
York - Vermont
South
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Ontario
British Columbia
Atlantic
the Real Property Act
Land Titles Office
Neepawa
Nessawa
George Devitt Love
McConnell
Olive May Love
Alexander Parker
J. A. Shearer
van Alstyne’s Garage
Geo.m. Strachan
Portage Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Urban Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Portage Institutions
Superintendent of Insurance
Portage Mutual
Mutual Life Assurance Company OF Canada
Fred King
Beulah
G. B. Shoup
1St Street
Brandon
Mutual Insurance
Hamiota Sheet Metal Works
Venti
Work Shop
E Co
A. G. Brown
Imperial LumberYards Ti
A. Kerr
Mgr
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