Grain Growers Press for Hudson Bay Railway Completion
The Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association calls on the Saskatchewan Government to urge the Federal Government to immediately complete the Hudson's Bay Railway. If Ottawa delays, they seek Manitoba and Alberta cooperation to push the project as a western undertaking. The convention also raised membership dues and debated governance rules.
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Mooee Jaw
Saskatchewan
Hudson’s Bay
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association
Provincial Legislature From Being Members of the Central Board
Association
Hudson's Bay Railway
George Langley
Langley
Ottawa
St Lawrence Deep Waterways Promised Wheat Shipment Savings
D W McLachlan of the Department of Railways and Canals told the Engineering Institute of Canada that the St Lawrence deep waterways project could cut costs by 50 cents to 2.50 per ton or 15 to 7 cents per bushel of wheat. He cited rising traffic on the Panama and Sault Canals and emphasized higher 1922 lake rates versus ocean rates, using a 100 ton mile basis for comparison.
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Ottawa
St. Lawrence Deep Waterways
D. W. McLachlan
Department of Railways and Canals
Engineering Institute of Canada
Panama and
Sault Canals
Canada
Europe
Fort William
Buffalo
Norman P. Clement Launches for Great Lakes Grain Trade
The steamer Norman P. Clement, part of a 10 ship order by the Eastern Steamship Company, was launched at John Samuel White and Company yards in East Cowes England. The vessel is rated at 2,500 tons dead weight and will operate in the grain carrying trade on the Great Lakes.
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East Cowes
Eng
Norman P. Clement
Eastern Steamship Company
Great Lakes
Messrs. John Samuel White and Company
Ask For Changes In Pension Board Winnipeg
A petition to purge the Board of Pension Commissioners and the Department of Soldiers' Civil Reestablishment of derelict officials will be presented at the next Federal Parliament session by the Dominion Veterans' Alliance. The plea cites the Royal Commission inquiry findings and demands action to protect dependents of deceased former service men.
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Winnipeg
Board of Pension Commissioners
Department of Soldiers
Royal Commission
Dominion Veterans’ Alliance
Taxation Debate Highlights Canadian Manufacturing Meeting
A Western Canada representative group joined about 200 delegates in Hamilton to discuss high taxation and remedies. President C. Howard Smith of Montreal urged reductions, citing excess overhead and overbuilt government, and urged scientifically adjusted tariffs and immigration as steps to ease tax pressure on industry.
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Hamilton
Ont
Western Canada
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
C. Howard Smith
Montreal
Midway Rights Awarded At Western Canada Fairs
Johnny J. Jones secures the Western Canada Class A fairs midway contract after a lengthy session of the Western Canada Exhibition Association. Gale Brooke of Minneapolis retains the grandstand refreshment concession and platform attractions will be booked from Wirth Hamid of New York.
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Saskatoon
Johnny J. Jones
Western Canada Exhibition Association
Gale Brooke
Minneapolis
Wirth Hamid
New York
Ottawa Plans Transnational Review Of St. Lawrence Project
After a Cabinet meeting Premier King said a message would be sent to Washington at once. The plan may include proposing an international board of engineers to study all aspects of the St. Lawrence power project.
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Ottawa
King
St. Lawrence
Washington
Board of Engineers
Russia Mourns Four Dead Premier
From Siberian villages to Crimean towns, Russia mourns Lenine as the premier dies. Messages rally about his name and policy, urging citizens to carry on his work.
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Russia
Moscow
Siberia
Crimea
Lenine
Premier Greenfield denies liquor board resign plan
Edmonton Premier Greenfield emphatically denied a local report that he would resign the premiership to chair the proposed liquor commission. The story cited O. L McPherson then speaker of the legislature and former Edmonton mayor D M Duggan as other board members.
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Edmonton
Alta
Liquor Commission
O. L McPherson
D. M. Duggan
Greenfield
Montreal Clothing Workers Locked Out Over Pay Cut
A lockout of about 1500 Montreal men’s clothing workers by the Clothing Contractors’ Association followed the workers’ rejection of a pay reduction. It has shut down 90 contract shops and 25 to 40 smaller inside shops in the industry.
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Montreal
Clothing Contractors’ Association
Jewish Colonization Association Pushes Emigration to Canada
London reports the Jewish Colonization Association accelerates emigration from Rumania with 300 refugees set to depart for Canada, as per the Canadian Press Association.
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London
Jewish Colonization Association
Rumania
Canada
Canadian Press Association
Cannot Compete With Canada Winnipeg Grain Costs
United States Grain Commission chairman L H Boyd said after touring Canada that the US could not compete in grain production. He noted Canada can produce cheaper grain and with higher quality, and that Canadian land is more fertile for crops, a finding the commission sees as crucial for Canadian farmers.
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Winnipeg
United States
Canada
L.H. Boyd
Board of Grain Commissioners
Boyd
Chicago
Saskatchewan Grain Growers say provincial politics not practicable
The Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association reports that using its machinery for provincial political action is not practicable at its current growth stage. The board notes a province wide feeling that the 1922 convention decision to allow members in any provincial constituency to use association machinery for nominating and electing a member has caused issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan Grain Growers Association
Canada protests U.S. Alaska route annexation claims
Canada asks the British Embassy in Washington to be kept posted on U.S. Shenandoah flights to the Arctic regions. Ottawa contends vast adjacent areas are Canadian by exploration and proximity and would resist any move by the United States to claim sovereignty.
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Canada
Worth
U.S
Ottawa
Washington
United States
Shenandoah
Arctic
Decline In Employment Ottawa January Report
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows a January decline in employment across reporting firms, with 57,581 fewer workers, a 7.2 percent drop. This followed a larger decrease of 72,000 last year, about nine percent of payroll.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dodd's Kidney Pills Praised by Mrs Laflamme
Mrs C H Laflamme of Bridgeville Quebec endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills after relief from kidney trouble. She says the pills boosted her health where other remedies failed and recommends them to friends amid claims of worldwide use and availability from druggists and The Dodds Medicine Co Toronto.
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C. H. Laflamme
Bridgeville
Que
Dodd
Dodd's Medicine Co., Ltd
Toronto
Alberta Wheat Pool May Pay Interim Sum
R O Gorman says trustees consider an interim payment to members of the Alberta Co-Operative Wheat Producers Limited before spring work begins. No definite action yet.
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Calgary
Alta
Alberta Co-Operative Wheat Producers. Limited
R. O. Gorman
Story of Canada Will Be Told at Exhibition
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics prepares diagrams tracing Canadian activity from the 1605 settlement to a 1941 census population of 8,788,483. Sent to England for the British Empire Exhibition, the charts promise a readable panorama under the motto He Who Runs May Read.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
England
National Relief Petition for Home Bank Losses Readied
A national committee representing Home Bank of Canada depositors urged government relief. They argued the monetary loss was a national responsibility and should be borne by the country, and met with a sympathetic hearing as the cabinet promised to present feasible proposals to Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Home Bank of Canada
Home Bank
Labor Party Promises Aid To Agriculture And Housing
London reports Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald plans immediate inquiry into UK agricultural conditions and pursues a bold housing policy. Emigration schemes likely receive qualified approval while ministerial salary cuts face weak support from extreme Clyde MPs. Lord Haldane, now lord chancellor, will focus on imperial defense matters.
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London
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Baldwin
Labor Party
United Kingdom
Clyde
Robert Smillie
Lord Haldane
Optimism Abroad Boosted by Mixed Farming in Winnipeg
Col. H. A. Mullins told a Rotary Club luncheon in Winnipeg that Western Canada’s shift to mixed farming brings confidence and progress. He stressed cattle raising, feeding, and finishing as key for farmers today and offered to arrange winter farm visits and cattle pictures to illustrate success.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Col. H. A. Mullins
Rotary Club
Col. Mullins
Motion filed in Legislature for farm products marketing committee
W Sanford Evans Conservative member for Winnipeg filed a motion in the Legislature to appoint a select committee to study conditions methods and agencies for marketing farm products with power to summon persons papers and records and report opinions to the House periodically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
W. Sanford Evans
Farmers urged to back federal field in railway and grain route push
Hon. J A Maharg president of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers told the annual convention that farmers should stay in the federal political field. He stressed completion of the Hudson Bay Railway and development of the Pacific coast grain route and minimized concern about provincial politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Maharg
Saskatchewan Grain Growers
Maharg
Up To Labor Party London
The Daily Herald warns that the British Labour movement enters its most difficult era as Labour leaders shift from critics of Tory and Liberal governments to those under scrutiny themselves. The paper notes leaders are now targets of criticism and must justify public confidence.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Harbor Board Aims to Reserve Elevator Bins for Farmers
Vancouver harbor officials plan to reserve bins in local elevators to allow farmers to ship directly rather than via company elevators. R. E. Beattie of the Harbor Board says farmers must move wheat into Vancouver on par with other Canadian ports and secure drafts against loading bills to fund operations, else the port cannot function effectively.
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Harbor Board
Vancouver
R. E. Beattie
Canada
Mr. Beattie
Canada seeks new domestic fuel sources amid anthracite shortage
Ottawa officials warn delaying substitutes for Canadian anthracite risks exhaustion and price rises. Dr. Charles Camsell outlines plans, including Alberta coal by product coke, Welsh anthracite, peat, and greater hardwood usage, to diversify fuel supplies for the provinces.
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Ottawa
Charles Camsell
Engineering Institute of Canada
Camsell
Canada
Vancouver Island
California
Mexico
Peru
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia
United States
Canada May Resume Trade With Soviets
Ottawa notes that British recognition of the Soviet Government may affect Canada Russia trade ties. Canada participates in a British Russia trade pact but has not sent official emissaries to Russia. Former Canadian trade commissioner office in Russia closed since the revolution. L D Wilgress oversees Russia from Hamburg.
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Ottawa
Russia
Great Britain
Canada
L.D. Wilgress
Hamburg
London
Indian Veterans Form Progressive Soldier Class on Reserves
Ottawa reports more than 3000 returned Indian soldiers form a new class on reserves nationwide. They have broadened experience and are unlikely to revert to ancestral primitive life. They enjoy rights under the Soldier Settlement Act administered by the Indian Department under special authority.
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Ottawa
Department of Indian Affairs
Indian Department
Ryan Free From Lashes After Life Sentence
The Ottawa report says Norman Red Ryan's life term at Kingston was announced with no corporal punishment. Solicitor General E J McMurray stated the 30 lash sentence was remitted, arguing a life sentence is enough punishment without the lash.
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Ottawa
Norman “Red” Ryan
Kingston Penitentiary
E. J. McMurray
McMurray
Montreal engineer president condemns flippant use of term
Walter J. Francis of Montreal, newly elected president of the Engineering Institute of Canada, told a Ottawa banquet that defining the term engineer is difficult. He cited 118 varieties of engineers and noted a man once advertised himself as a hot dog engineer, urging more careful usage.
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Ottawa
Walter J. Francis
Montreal
Engineering Institute of Canada
Death of Hon Geo R Coldwell Brandon
Hon George Robson Coldwell former Manitoba minister of education in the Roblin administration dies. Born in Durham Ontario in 1858.
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Hon. Geo. R. Coldwell
Brandon
George Robson Coldwell
Manitoba
Roblin
Durham
Ont
This Article Will Interest Every Mother
Toronto readers praise Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a major aid in motherhood. A Toronto mother of six credits the remedy with relief from suffering during previous pregnancies and a smooth postnatal recovery, noting a healthy grandchild and restored strength.
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Toronto
Ont
Dr. Pierce
Henry McDonald
Wilmot Avenue
Beldysbanek Pierce
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