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Newspaper
Penticton Press
Location
Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
2
The Penticton Press reports on a weekly plan to bring immigrants to Penticton British Columbia. They aim to settle the extensive vacant arable lands surrounding the town, importing a full quota to cultivate the region.
The budget highlights fruit industry expansion with about three million trees planted last year, pushing BC orchard area above one hundred thousand acres. The Natal Act is ruled ultra vires by Chief Justice Hunter, complicating potential appeals and underscoring ongoing political tensions between Ottawa and the province over immigration policies and the Orientals question.
Finance Minister Tatlow presents a budget speech highlighting agriculture imports for 1907 totaling over four million dollars, the need for more farmers and free land surveys, and notes a government plan to survey lands. The 1906 7 Senate select committee report on Canada’s north cites rich mineral and agricultural potential in Ungava Keewatin and the Mackenzie basin.
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