Alberta farmers seek wives in Ireland for companionship
An Alberta farming colony hires an agent to travel to Ireland in search of suitable wives. They hope a touch of greenery will brighten the lonely prairies and ease their sense of isolation.
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Newspaper
Ontario Georgetown Herald
Location
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 01, 1925
Page
4
An Alberta farming colony hires an agent to travel to Ireland in search of suitable wives. They hope a touch of greenery will brighten the lonely prairies and ease their sense of isolation.
A thirty day all expense tour from Toronto begins July 9 traveling west through Western Canada to Jasper Prince Rupert and Vancouver then south via Yellowstone Salt Lake City Estes Chicago back to Toronto. Led by A E Bryson and Martin Kerr with openings for teachers and the public.
Obituary notes Henry E. Suckling longtime Canadian Pacific Railway treasurer dies in Atlantic City after months of illness born in Gibraltar in 1861. Other items include J Mitchell the renowned wheat grower returning from a British Isles tour, Ontario mining output forecast near 76 million dollars, a new English Silver Trophy for Canadian clubs, Mount Logan expedition from Vancouver, Manitoba agricultural value at 164.3 million dollars, Wolfe shield to be returned to Quebec, pianist Ethel Loginska in Englewood critique, snowshoe horses in the Canadian Rockies, Trail Riders pow wow, motion camera innovations by Burton S Moore, and CP Rail dominance in western grain handling for 1924.
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