Provinces Take Charge of Immigration Policy
Saskatchewan Alberta and Manitoba announce control over immigrant volume and character with provinces handling intake from Ottawa while inter provincial talks follow Alberta election. Officials say agreements limit removal across provinces and key details to be finalized at upcoming conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Alberta
George Hoadley
Pra Rie
Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
R. A. Hoey
Hoey
G. Headiey
Ottawa
Dominion
Grain Elevator Burned Silton Saskatchewan
The Pool elevator built in 1912 with 11 000 bushels burned on June 4 after a fire broke out the night before. Estimated loss about 35000 dollars. Fire blamed on spontaneous combustion. Seven empty CPR box cars on loading tracks were moved to safety by manpower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silton
Sask
C.P.R
Prince Stands in for King at Trooping Colors
The Prince of Wales substituted for King George in the Horse Guards parade on the monarchs birthday. He wore the uniform of a colonel of the Welsh Guards while King George aged 65 watched from the Admiralty balcony, appearing fit despite a rheumatic attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Prince of Wales
King George
Horse Guards
Welsh Guards
Admiralty Building
Six-Horse Town Churchill Expands in Manitoba
Churchill on Hudson Bay grows from two to six horses as two more teams arrive from The Pas to join the Jone duo escorted by the Department of Railways and Canals. The Manitoba port town’s dream of a six-horse settlement stands affirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
Man
Hudson Bay
Pas
Department of Railways and Canals
Manitoba
MacDonald Announces Government Rejects Channel Tunnel Plan
Prime Minister MacDonald informed the House of Commons that the government has decided against building the proposed English Channel tunnel. He said a white paper would circulate a formal statement but did not disclose the cabinet’s reasons for the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
MacDonald
House of Commons
Health Insurance System Advocated in Canada
The Canarian Manufacturers' Association urged a state health insurance system to curb sickness related losses, citing a 2360 million annual drain on productive capacity. The report references Britain's commission and shows England Germany and the U S experience with sickness causing the most lost time. The committee offered to cooperate with the government on a thirteen month calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
Canada
Canarian Manufacturers’ Association
Industrial Relations ¢ Committee
Associatio
British Columbia
England
Germany
United States
Industrial Relations Committee
Alberta Wheat Champion Sample Distribuion at Shrine
Five thousand phials of Alberta wheat that won the Chicago Grain Exposition world championship will be given to Shrine visitors in Toronto. Minister George Hoadley arranged the program to showcase Alberta and Canada's agriculture achievements. The wheat comes from Joseph H. B. Smith's farm at Wolf Creek, Alberta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
Alberta
Canada
George Hoadley
Joseph H. B. Smith
Wolf Creek
Alta
Crerar Downplays Hudson Bay Route Insurance Rates
Ottawa minister Hon T A Crerar says insurance rates on Hudson Bay shipping are not urgent. He cites imperial committee findings that rates cannot be fixed until navigation begins and ice breaker and wireless direction tech are evaluated. He estimates European traffic will use the bay route in 14 to 15 months and rejects government insurance take over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Hudson Bay
T. A. Crerar
Imperial Shipping Committee
Mr. Crerar
Grain Broker Sentenced In Winnipeg For Bank Fraud
F. H. Bole a prominent Winnipeg grain man and head of the Electric Elevator Company Limited was sentenced to two years in penitentiary on three counts of obtaining money from the Bank of Montreal by false statements. He pleaded guilty in provincial police court and the three charges totalled 85000. The sentences run concurrently with one year on one charge and two years on each of the other two charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
F. H. Bole
Bank of Montreal
Bole
Electric Elevator Company, Limited
Winnipeg Exchange
Icelanders Leave For Celebration
Prominent members of western Canadian Icelandic communities numbering 150 left Winnipeg on June 3 bound for the millennium Althing celebration to be held in Reykjavik Iceland this month. At the station hundreds of friends and local organization representatives gathered to bid them farewell. The party includes Prof R Beck head of the Scandinavian languages department University of North Dakota and H Westergaard Norwegian vice consul at Estevan Sask.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
Reykjavik
Iceland
R. Beck
University of North Dakota
H. Westergaard
Estevan, Sask
Five New Quebec Senators Appointed in Ottawa
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced five Quebec appointments to the senate following a long cabinet meeting. The appointees include Rodolphe Lemieux E Tobin J F Provost George Parent and L A Wilson, replacing the resigning Louis Lavergne due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Quebec
Senate
Hom
Rodolphe Lemieux
House of Commons
E.tobin
Richmond-Wolfe
J. FE. Prevost
Terrebonne
George Parent
Quebec West
L. A. Wilson
Caudreuil-Soulanges
Prime Minis
Forest Fires Ravage North Ontario Farm Homes
In north western Ontario, forest fires destroyed many farm houses and left over twenty five families homeless totaling about 75 people. Sioux Lookout reported fires under control as crews and volunteers battled the blazes. The Larson area suffered frame house losses and Albert Swain’s mink farm burned with $50 000 in losses. A fatality, pilot Paul Garten, former German ace, is believed to have died when his aircraft crashed into Lake Seseganagra during the fire response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Paul Garten
Western Canada Airways
Allan Water
Ont
Garten
Richtofen
Larson
Lakehead
Canadian National Railway
Albert E. Swain
Canada to Represent at Berlin World Power Conference
Ottawa announces strong Canadian presence at the second world power conference in Berlin June 16 to 23. Dr. Charles Camsell leads delegates including John Murphy F. P. Burden T. H. Hogg G. A. Gaherty J. C. Glassco with a June 18 banquet featuring a telephone radio hookup to Edison's laboratory for a regional Edison address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Berlin
Germany
Charles Camsell
Camsell
John Murphy
Department of Railways and Canals
F. P. Burden
British Columbia
T. H. Hogg
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario
G. A. Gaherty
Calgary Power Company
J. C. Glassco
Winnipeg Hydro-Electric System
E.S.T
London
England
San Francisco
Cal
Thomas Edison
Mr. Edison
New Jersey
Blue Print Carried 175 Miles by Wind From Melita to Brandon
A blueprint travelled over 175 miles carried by strong winds from Melita Manitoba to Assiniboia Saskatchewan where a resident recovered it from the air. A R McDiarmid Ltd received the print back with a note from Assiniboia stating it was picked out of the air during a big blow. The print had been sent to Melita for a bid and was the only copy in existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melita
Mission Hospital in Fort Simpson Damaged by Fire
Flames of unknown origin swept the Roman Catholic Mission Hospital at Fort Simpson on June 4 causing over $50,000 in losses. Sisters in charge saved all patients and a substantial amount of equipment. The building, about twenty years old, was destroyed or seriously damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Simpson
N.W.T
R-100 Arrives in Canada Sparks Massive Prep
Canadian National Railways prepares for the R-100 dirigible landing at St Hubert Air Field near Montreal. Special trains will run from Bonaventure Station to the field, with tracks laid to handle crowds and arrival operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Hubert Air Field
Montreal
England
Canadian National Railways
Bonaventure Station
St. Hubert
Empire Air Expansion Seen By Lord Thomson
Lord Thomson warns Empire airlines will grow rapidly and surpass most regions except the United States. He cites 22 350 miles of regular routes and plans to extend Indian routes to Australia, with Cape to Cairo reaching the Great Lakes by spring 1931. He notes Atlantic airways progress and Canadian cooperation will be essential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
United States
Lord Thomson
Air
House of Lords
Australia
Government of
Cape To
Cairo
Great Lakes
Central Africa
Atlantic Airways
Western
Atlantic
Canada
Blaze Near Hudson Bay Junction Sparks Gas Rush
Prospectors and townspeople rushed to a blazing natural gas well 20 miles south of Hudson Bay Junction Saskatchewan. A CN R digging crew at 300 feet struck escaping gas and ignited it with a match. The flame rises about ten feet as signs of oil appear nearby and claims have been staked in the district. If deepened the well could release a large gas supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Bay Junction
C.N.R
King George Replies to Canadian Birthday Greetings
King George thanks Premier King and Canada for loyal greetings on the anniversary of his birthday. He expresses sincere appreciation for the government and people of Canada and their good wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People of
Canada
Ottawa
Ont
King George
Thomas Given New Position in British Cabinet
London reports Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced in the House of Commons that J. H. Thomas, currently Lord Privy Seal and head of unemployment relief, will become Secretary of State for the Dominions in a newly created post. MacDonald explained the split of the Dominion and Colonial Offices ahead of the imperial conference in September. Thomas previously served as consul secretary in 1924 and is popular with dominion governments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commions
J. H. Thomas
Privy Seal
Dominions
Dominion
British Colonial Office
Dominion and Colonial Office
MacDonald
Imperial Conference
Colonial
Thomas
MacDonalds
Lincon
Subsidy on Western Coal Announced by Dominion Government
Ottawa announces freight rate reductions for Crow's Nest Pass coal from British Columbia and Alberta to Manitoba with a one year subsidy of 1 per ton and a separate 50 cent subsidy for carbonized briquettes and lignite in Saskatchewan. Administration by the Dominion Fuel Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Western
Canada
Charles Stewart
Crow's Nest Pass
British Columbia
Inch
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion Fuel Board
Calgary Man On Committee Ottawa
The War Veterans' Allowance Act Committee announced by Hon. J. H. King includes Walter S. Woods of Calgary as chairman. Also on the panel are Lieut.-Col. Dougall Carmichael from Owen Sound and Major F. J. Garneau of Quebec. Woods previously led the Soldiers' Settlement Board in Calgary. Carmichael served as minister without portfolio in Drury's government, and Garneau works with the Department of Soldiers' Civil Reestablishment in Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
J. H. King
Walter S. Woods
Calgary
Dougall Carmichael
F. J. Garneau
Woods
Soldiers’ Settlement Board
Carmichael
Owen Sound
Drury
Major Garneau
E. B. Garneau
Quebec
Que
Department of Soldiers’ Civil Reestablishment
Made Record Flight Edmonton
The first mail and express flight to Aklavik in the Northwest Territories shattered records. A Commercial Airways Bellanca plane flew 1630 miles from Fort McMurray in 11 hours 5 minutes, ending the winter mail tie up and delivering mail and supplies to the Arctic outpost. Travelers can now reach the Arctic rim in about 14 hours from Edmonton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmonton
Commercial Airways
Aklavik
N.W.T
Mackenzie River
Fort McMurray
McMurray
Arctic Ocean
Earful aid adapts radio for tonal deaf listeners
Julius G. Aeeves, consulting engineer for the New York inventor, demonstrated a radio receiver adjustable to compensate for tonal deafness before the Radio Club of America in Atlantic City New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N.J
Julus G. Aeeves
New York
Radio Club of America
Italy to suspend naval program if France joins talks
Dino Grandi announces Italy willing to suspend its 1930 naval building program pending the outcome of Franco Italian conversations on naval limitation if France agrees to do the same. A diplomatic exchange centers on curbing naval expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
France
Dino Grandi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Regina
J . M. Anderson
Ortens
Prairie
Channel Tunnel
Province of
Port Arthur
Sioux Lookout
W. R
Bill” Hicks
Hicks
U.S
Col
Hanford MacNider
Hoover
World Power
Mission
Needs
Britain
Pensions Board
Minister of Health
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!