Romance of the Riders of the Plains in Western Canada
A historical overview credits the Royal North-West Mounted Police with transforming Western Canada from a hunting ground to farming, detailing frontier feats by Mounties. Notable episodes include Sergeant Martin at Regina, 125 mile escort to a reserve, and outlaw Dutch Henry’s capture by Stewart alongside a U.S. marshal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Plains
Rouse Northwest Mounted Police
Western
Canada
Royal North-West Mounted Police
Scarlet Riders of
Plains
Col. Ross
Mounted Police
Ontario
Pacific Ocean
Arctic
Law &S
Regina
Arctic Circle
Prairies
Fort Swan River
United States
Martin
Fort Qu’Appelle
A. Stewart
Fort Qu’Apelle
Gavine
Fitzgerald
Henry
West
Seret
Major Stewart
Stewart
Salmon Pack Expected for Busy Prince Rupert Season
Salmon canneries along the Skeena river near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, prepare for a busy season as Grand Trunk Pacific transports tin plate north to supply can production. Sockeye runs are not expected to peak until early June, but 1914 is anticipated to be the best in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eena
Prince Rupert
Ottawa Citizens Calls for Law on Obscene News Images
The Ottawa Citizens argue against publishing photographs of criminals and ceremonies that could inflame violence. They contend a broader law is needed to stop images of respectable citizens from inspiring murder in victims' hearts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choquette
Ottawa
Britain's Naval Superiority in Dickinson Return
The Dickinson return shows Britain leading in battleships with 58 built versus 35 for Germany and 21 for France. Britain also holds large cruiser counts at 47 built and 65 light cruisers, while other powers trail. Building figures place Britain at 14 battleships and 20 light cruisers underway, ahead of rivals in multiple classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Russia
Russ
Russian
British capital eyes petroleum prospect near Athabasca River
The Canada Gazette reports a $2,000,000 British search for oil in North Alberta. The minister of the interior extends lease rental time for townships 70 to 74 and ranges 23 to 26 west of the fourth meridian. The tract lies between Moose and Island Lakes, about 50 miles north of Athabasca Landing and 100 miles north of Edmonton, with preliminary surveys indicating good prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athabasca
Edmonton
Canada Gazette
Alberta
Moose
Island Lakes
Athabasca Landing
Canadian Aviation Company formed to sell aircraft and teach flying
The Canadian Aviation Company Limited of Toronto is federally incorporated with capital of $50,000. Wm Archibald Dean leads as director. The firm plans to sell monoplanes and flying boats, provide pilots and instructors, operate garages, exhibitions, and other aviation services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Aviation Company, Limited
Toronto
Archibald Dean
Condensing Electricity Demonstrated by Madrid Electrician
Signor Iglesiac an electrician of Madrid gave a successful demonstration of an apparatus he invented for condensing and utilizing atmospheric electricity. He lit and extinguished fifteen bulbs at six hundred yards. Experts say the discovery could lower industrial current production costs. William Marconi earlier lit a bulb six miles away via wireless current from a 100 horsepower engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor Iglesiac
Madrid
William Marconi
German Methods In English Coalfields At Doncaster
A new coal colliery in the Doncaster district is described as a German undertaking. An Essen firm won the machinery contract near £200,000 and all equipment will come from Germany. The shaft will use German freezing methods, a model mining village will be created, and central baths for miners will be provided at the pithead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English
Doncaster
Essen
Germany
Congo Reforms Move Toward Greater Autonomy Under King Albert
Reforms urged by King Albert are being phased in as Belgium plans to back past and future Congo debts and grant the colony more autonomy. The government would move colonial administration to Boma to streamline district governance and establish a regular yearly budget. Judicial power would be reorganized to give colonial agents police authority similar to British colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Albert
Africa
Belgium
Leopold
Boma
Flour exports from Alberta mills power orient trade
Alberta mills in Medicine Hat Calgary and Lethbridge ship large flour loads to the Orient with Medicine Hat 29 000 sacks and Ogilvie mill 100 000 sacks weighing 49 pounds each Ellison in Lethbridge leads exports to Japan and China The Western Milling Calgary Robin Hood Calgary and Moose Jaw also export heavily Canada’s flour exports to Germany doubled in six years with 1908 at 1 962 740 barrels worth 8 5 million and last year near 20 million Fort William and Grand Trunk Pacific elevator annexes under construction Stewart Company of Chicago holds contracts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Lethbridge
Alberta
Ogilvie
Medicine Hat Milling Co
Ellison Milling Company
Japan
China
Western Milling Company
Robin Hood Mills
Moose Jaw
Canada
Germany
Canadian Pacific Railway
Fort William
Grand Trunk Pacific Elevator
Stewart Company of
Chicago
Old British warships sold at auction including Renown
Four superannuated British warships went to auction led by the battleship Renown once famed as the fleet’s fastest vessel. Renown brought £39,000, with Resolution £35,650 Forte £18,500 and Medea £10,875. Scylla failed to meet reserve with £11,800 top offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Mediterranean
Fisher
India
Resolution
Forte
Vulgar Habit of Smoking Noted in Public
The piece recalls how smoking in public once was frowned on, citing Gladstone who smoked only once for King Edward VII, and Frederic Harrison who avoids carriages with smokers, reflecting changing social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Edward
Prince of Wales
Frederic Harrison
T.P
Arctic wireless limited by practicality despite Port Nelson success
Canada’s naval service doubts Arctic wireless feasibility though Port Nelson station operates well. Herschel Island proposed by Stefansson would struggle with distance and mountainous terrain. Port Nelson, Esquimault and other stations show strong cross ocean links, with new towers enduring extreme cold as plans grow for three more stations in Hudson Bay and Straits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Nelson
Department of the Naval Service
Canada
Explorer Stefannson
Arctic
Stefannson
Herschel Island
Karluk
Department
Pas
Pacific
Esquimault
Honolulu
Japan
Port Arthur
Atlantic
Hudson Bay
Straits
Mancel Island
Hudson Straits
Ash Inlet
Button Islands
Museum of Peace aims to build New York arts complex
The group plans a $25,000,000 collection of buildings in New York City to exhibit aviation and gardening subjects and establish permanent memorials of the 1814 Ghent treaty era. Directors include Jacob H. Schiff Elbert H. Gary Robert E. Peary Melville E. Stone and Theodore N. Vail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Association For
City of
New York
Ghent
Jacob H. Schiff
Elbert H. Gary
Robert E. Peary
Melville E. Stone
Theodore N. Vail
Gloucester Fishermen Seek $50,000 from 1887 Seizure
The British American pecuniary claims commission in Washington heard claims totaling $50,000 arising from Canada’s 1887 seizure of Gloucester schooners Argo Naut and Jonas H French with their seines. The defense contends the boats drifted beyond the three mile limit off Nova Scotia while the fishermen claim they operated inside the limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Gloucester
Argonaut
Jonas H. French
Washington
Homestead map edition aids settlers in three prairie provinces
The twelfth edition of the Homestead map, prepared by Ottawa’s Department of the Interior railway lands branch, outlines land status through January 1, 1914 across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. It shows quarters, reserves, timber berths, grazing leases, post offices, railways and more, with Manitoba’s sheet now available free upon request to F. C. C. Lynch.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Railway Lands
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
F. C. C. Lynch
Department of the Interior
Missionary Hero Bishop Stringer of the Yukon
The article profiles Bishop Stringer, a key Church of England figure in Canada. He served as Eskimo missionary on Herschel Island, later succeeding Bishop Bompas in 1906, and oversees a Yukon diocese spanning 200000 square miles with communities in Dawson Whitehorse and Carecross. He supports hundreds of whites and Indians, including a government school for Indian children.
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Bishop Stringer
Yukon
Church of England
Canada
Herschel Island
Arctic Ocean
Stringer
Herschell Island
White Horse
Dawson
Carecross
Charing Cross Busiest Depot in World Traffic
Four rail systems stack at Charing Cross London after two and a half years of reconstruction. The Bakerloo, Hampstead, District and Southeastern and Chatham lines share a single point. About 900000 trains and 15000000 passengers yearly expected across 26 routes, per Secretary Maderick.
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Charing Cross
London
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Bakerloo
Hampstead
District Railway
Southeastern
Chatham
Charing Cross Station
Maderick
London Electric Railways
Woman Refused Engineering License in Regina
Mrs Victor Garnist, twenty years a licensed engineer in Minnesota, applied in Regina to obtain a license to operate her husband's traction engine. Saskatchewan law restricts engineers to males over 18, so she was denied. She asserts many women in the province would become engineers if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Garnist
Minnesota
Regina
Saskatchewan
British Women Emigration Push Highlights Canada Shortage
At the British Women's Emigration Association annual meeting in London the Bishop of Yukon cites Canada’s gender imbalance with 700,000 to 800,000 more men than women. They emphasize sending educated, adaptable women to Canada and the Dominions, with hostels in London and British Columbia and 16,000+ women shipped since 1884.
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Yukon
Canada
United States
British Women’s Emigration Association
Mansion House
London
British Columbia
Association
Dominions
G. L. Bever
Page Croft
Regina Plans Horse Breeding Farm Expansion
Regina city officials announce plans to expand beyond oats and enter live stock farming. The city owns about 100 horses used by the fire department street cleaning and health services and will breed horses for future needs. They will feed 406 acres to oats this year with ~300 acres harvested in fall and the rest fed as green sheaves.
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Regina
Inca Mummy Brought by T G Taylor for Halifax Exhibit
Halifax based T G Taylor reports obtaining a 2000 year old Inca mummy in Chili while supervising a railroad cut. He will loan the squatting figure under a foot tall to the Provincial Museum in Halifax. A Chili museum official notes Inca art of reducing body size after death.
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T. G. Taylor
Halifax
N.S
Chili
Taylor
Antifagasta
BC Fish Export Report From Canadian Commissioner
J. Be Ray, a Canadian trade commissioner in Birmingham, notes two months ago Grimsby fish merchants successfully imported frozen halibut from British Columbia. He says trial shipments may be imported by merchants in large consuming centres and that Birmingham firms seek correspondence with reliable exporters for next season.
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J. BE. Ray
Birmingham
British Columbia
Grimsby
Mr. Ray
China Egg Trade Links Canada Pacific Ships to China
After Chinese egg shipments rise via Canadian Pacific steamers and Royal Mail liners, experts urge expanding trade. A refrigeration system on trans-Pacific liners could boost bid for the business and stimulate new routes.
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China
Canadian Pacific Railway
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Canadian Pacific
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Romance OF the Riders OF the Plains
Britain
Dickinson
BIG Oil Search
Canadian Aviation
Department OF Naval Service
Stefansson
Museum OF Peace
Homestead
New London
Pratrier
Regina Headquarters
Ccity
B.C. Fist. Export
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