Hand Picked Immigration Advocated By Alberta Farmer
A. Bhandro, a prominent Alberta farmer and former legislator, argues for a broad immigration policy based on hand picked entrants. He emphasizes skilled, family accompanied newcomers, assimilation through farming, and warns against deportment of problematic entrants while praising New Canadians who prosper through gradual integration.
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Wein Am Errat
Bukowina
Galicia
A. Bhandro
Alberta
Canada
Great Britain
Experimental Farm Reports Highlight Local Agricultural Insights
A brief survey of Dominion Experimental Farm Superintendent reports shows practical value for farmers. Specific findings include alfalfa seed inoculation trials at Beaverlodge Alberta, recleaned screenings feeding horses at Brandon Manitoba, screenings feeding lambs at Scott Saskatchewan, cheaper steer gains with cheap hay and ensilage corn at Nappan Nova Scotia, and alfalfa seeding without a nurse crop on dry soils at Kapusasing Ontario. Invermere British Columbia sees sunflowers yielding comparably to field corn.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Beaverlodge
Alberta
Brandon
Man
Kapushasing
Ontario
Invermore
British Columbia
Tree Line Advances West Across Canadian Prairies
The tree line has moved hundreds of miles into the prairies as islands and groves appear where none stood. Settlement pauses and prairie fires once hindered growth, but fire suppression and windborne seeds aided by a Dominion nursery program have produced rapid forest expansion from Saskatchewan forests into southern regions.
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United States
Middle West
Canadian Prairies
Mississippi
Red Rivers
Bald Prairie
Saskatchewan
Dominion Forest Nursery Station
Indian Head
Ordinary life and looming peril in modern civilization
The piece reflects on a typical household in the modern age with comforts from typewriters to electric appliances. William Feather urges readers to consider whether such abundance risks undermining the greatest civilization the world has known if ingratitude and excess persist.
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Ana
William Feather
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Canada land offers for settlers amid colonial rhetoric
In discussions on colonization the press and public speakers highlight that Canada remains among the few nations offering agricultural lands on affordable terms for settlers with limited capital. They emphasize democratic self government, a climate deemed acceptable to the white race, and lands located in Canada.
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Canada
Manitoba Farm Loans Board Expands Credit to Farmers
The Manitoba Farm Loans Board says it has lent over 7 million dollars to Manitoba farmers since 1917 and plans a new loan of 500 thousand dollars under the farms loans scheme to be distributed to farmers.
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Manitoba Farm Loans Board
Manitoba
Home merchants boost community prosperity message
A call to shoppers urges buying from local merchants to directly support the prosperity of the community where they live.
Hidden banners of the Knights of the Garter at Windsor
The Dean of Windsor revealed in a Norwich Cathedral sermon that the banners of eight Knights of the Garter removed in May 1915 remain hidden at Windsor. Only Sir Henry Burke and Sir Alfred Scott Gatty’s custodian know the exact hiding place, intended to wait for the King’s request. The banners are safe and could lie unseen for hundreds of years, their fate uncertain.
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Knights of the Garter
St George's Chapel
Windsor
Norwich
Henry Farnham Burke
Sir Alfred Scott Gatty
Alfred Scott Gatty
Sir Henry Burke
Sir Alfred
British Land Legion proposal for colonizing Canada
F. Wade, Agent General for British Columbia, presents a plan to form a British Land Legion. Members would wear uniforms, serve three years of farm work under semi military discipline, then receive 100 acres of land. They would gain Dominion farming experience and be eligible for a Federal Government loan to finance the land.
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British Land Legion
Canada
F. ©. Wade
British Columbia
Legion
Sunflowers for Silage Aid Expands in Alberta
Alberta Department of Agriculture will distribute sunflower seed to settlers for cash or on credit. A similar program for corn seed indicates Alberta may be considered a corn growing area.
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Alberta Department of Agriculture
Alberta
Tuberculosis Urged to Protect Coast Indian Communities
F F Barton secretary of the Columbian Coast Anglican Mission warns that without action tuberculosis will wipe out Indians of Alert Bay and nearby reserves. He calls for a tuberculosis hospital to be established by the Federal Department of Indian Affairs.
Apparition Warned Hatfield Before Rescue at Sea
The tale recounts Captain George A. Hatfield of Parrsboro Nova Scotia awakening to a warning from a spectral visitor aboard the J T Smith in 1876. Following the vision he steered toward the Florida coast and found the sinking American schooner D Talbot, rescuing Captain Amesbury his wife and child and crew. The rescue earned Hatfield a gold watch inscribed by the US president.
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Antigonish County
Caledonia Millis
Franklin W. Prince
New York
American Society of Physical Research
George A. Hatfield
Parreboro
N.S
Hatfield
Cienfuegos
Cubs
J. T. Smith
Doston
Florida
United States
D. Talbot
Amesbury
Dspds Smith
Parrsboro
Bb. Talbot
Mining boom announced for British Columbia worth twenty million
British Columbia mining engineer K. A. Haggen states that this year will see twenty million dollars in new mining and industrial development in the province. Australian capital enters the field for the first time with three new British companies investing substantial funds.
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K. A. Haggen
British Columbia
Rural districts seen as longest lifespans claim
A pair of reports contrasts livestock market gains with urban longevity. Rural life is linked to longer life by Dr John Brownlee, noting higher life expectancy for rural males at ages 15, 40, and 55, and suggesting premature aging in towns.
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John Brownlee
British Medical Research Council
The
Lancet
Brownlee
Fighting the Stem Sawfly Threat to Saskatchewan Wheat
Saskatchewan's M P Tullis warns farmers of heavy losses from the western wheat stem sawfly over the past four to five years. He urges deep plowing of stubble, immune crops like oats and flax, and cooperative fieldwork to prevent infestation along field edges and after harvest.
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Saskatchewan
M. P. Tullis
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Tullis
Premier Greenfield Urges East West Unity in Canada
Hon. Herbert Greenfield Premier of Alberta addressed the Canadian Club in Montreal urging closer knowledge and unity between Canada’s east and west. He defended western farmers against jealously and denied American domination in the west. A separate note reports BC potatoes, 500 tons shipped to Cuba from Vancouver area.
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Greenfield
Canada
Canadian Club
Montreal
Herbert Greenfield
Alberta
Dominion
West
British Columbia
Cuba
Vancouver City
Forgotten Canadian Authors Spotlight in Ottawa Journal
The Ottawa Journal urges readers to rediscover native writers from Haliburton to de Mille and Twain. It questions current familiarity with Haliburton works like Sam Slick and The Old Judge and highlights Helena's Household and Innocents Abroad as notable reads.
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Haliburton
Sam Slick
Clockmaker
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
British North America
Ottoléwa
James de Mille
Helena
Rome
Mark Twain
Ottawa
Alberta Game Act amendments curb big game limits
New amendments to the Game Act would limit big game hunting in Alberta. A hunter may kill one mountain sheep or mountain goat instead of two, and a special license may be issued to hunt big game in Rockies forest reserves only in September and October, with a $2.50 resident tax and a $25 non resident tax.
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Alberta
Rockies
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Knights of Garter
B.C
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Toronto
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Calgary
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