Terminus Works Advance on Hudson Bay Railway
Work on the Hudson Bay Railway terminals began last Thursday east of town with clearing and grading on the main line to the First Street crossing. Weather permitting, fall work continues, and next spring will add round houses and machine shops. $75,000 budgets set for a new station with completion by January 1, 1915 and total next year expenditures of $500,000 by the Department of Railways. Assistant chief engineer J. P. Gordon departed for Winnipeg. ties and steel progress push toward Mile 100 before winter halts work.
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Department of Railways
le Pas
Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay Railway
C.N. R
First St
J. P. Gordon
Winnipeg
Wireless station sites chosen for Hudson Bay route
About fifty Halifax men sent to Port Nelson for Hudson Bay Railway work returned, citing unwillingness to unload at night. No further ships will be sent to Hudson Bay this year, two remaining will sail back. Boethie crew report few ice and favorable navigation. wireless stations will be set along the route with landward links to Le Pas and Newfoundland.
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Port Nelson
Hudson Bay Railway
Halifax
Serence
Liudson Bay
Railways and Canals Department
Boethie
Canadian Wireless Service
Tis
Atlantic Coast
le Pas
Newfoundland
G. J. Desbarats
Naval Service Department
Government Naval Yard
Hudson Bay
Ottawa denounces Port Nelson harbor tale as false
Hon. F Cochrane, minister of railways and canals, calls the sensational Port Nelson harbor mismanagement report wholly untrue. He says there is scarcely a word of truth and expresses pride in the year’s accomplishments amid abnormal pioneer conditions.
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Ottawa
Ont
Port Nelson Harbor
F Cochrane
Premier Taking A Rest
Ottawa reports the strain of a year’s work has affected Prime Minister R L Borden and he has left for a two week holiday in the South to recover his health.
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Ottawa
R. L. Borden
Dublin Strike Still Unsettled
Dublin on November 3 reports a prolonged labor strike causing widespread hunger and homelessness. The strike costs merchants and manufacturers about $400,000 weekly and the city about $1,000 daily for extra police, with little prospect of settlement.
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Dublin
Denominational Census Set for Saskatchewan Province
A denominational census will be taken in Saskatchewan on November 16. Rural mail delivery is expanding for farmers within a 40 mile radius of Brandon. Halloween pranks blamed for fires at Castor Alberta stables and bores. The steamship Manchester Commerce hit an iceberg near Belle Isle Strait and needed repairs in St John Newfoundland. Mrs Rothechild of Montreal died when car wheels severed her head. Brakeman O Loonam of Fort William Ontario died after being run over by freight cars, leaving a wife and four children. The British War Office plans remount contracts with Alberta breeders for cavalry. Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario end joint street railway management and each governs its own section.
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Fort William
Ontario
O. Loonam
Port Arthur
Ont
Canadian Northern Railway Announces Annual Excursions
The Canadian Northern Railway unveils its yearly excursion program to Eastern Canada the Old Country and the United States. Passenger department pamphlets with full trip details are available from CN agents on request.
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Canadian Northern Railway
Canada
Old Country
United States
Canadian Northern
Sask River Dredging Plan for Prairie Waterway
The board of trade urges immediate government steps to make navigation on the Saskatchewan River from Edmonton to Le Pas practical and economical, citing gold deposits along the river and a proposed dredging scheme by Roughsedge and Ramsay with Ottawa backing to create a wide channel and a profitable dividend guarantee.
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Board of Trade
Saskatchewan River
Edmonton
le Pas
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Dominion
North Battleford
Roughsedge and
Ramsay
Ottawa
Pugsley
Prince Albert
Chemel
Awards to Canadian Heroes in Carnegie Honours
Pittsburg announces Carnegie hero awards to Canadians Bert T. Yates Cornwall Ont bronze medal and 2000 for education after saving three boys from drowning at Mille Roches 1909 Lynn F Wilcox Pennant Sask bronze medal and 1000 for saving Leroy A Keller from suffocation in a well at Pennant 1911 To widow of R Frederick Dayton Battle River Alta silver medal and pension 25 a month Dayton died saving William Kilpatrick from suffocation in a well at Viking Alta 1912.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie
Bert T. Yates
Cornwall
Ont
Yates
Mille Roches
Lynn F. Wilcox
Pennant
Sask
Leroy A. Keller
Pennant, Sask
R. Frederick Dayton
Battle River
Alto
Dayton
William Kilpatrick
Viking
Alta
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Bay Road
Straits
Mr. Cochrane
Province of
Cit
Brandon
May
Hallowe’en
Castor
Manchester
Belle Isle Straits
St. John’s, Mld
British War Office
National Breeders’ Association of
Alberta
Cavalry
Army
Botton
Pas Annex
DE Tremaudan & CO
Herald
Fischer
T!! Armstrong Trading CO. Limited
First Street
Edwards Ave
Coats
the Lake Lumber Co
Railway Avenue
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