McBride Portrayed as Ruler of British Columbia in London
Tay Pay T P O Connor departs to Victoria and sketches Premier Richard McBride as a massive, cross cultural figure with Irish roots and democratic charm. The piece notes his political mastery, nine years in office, 38 of 42 legislature supporters, and plan for a British Columbian University while staying devoted to his province.
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T. P. O’connor
M. P
London Daily Chronicle
Richard McBride
British Columbia
England
Tay Pay
Victoria
Vancouver
Venice
McBride
Emerald Isle
New World
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier
Dominion
France
Mr. McBride
Old World
Ireland
William Orange
Canadian Pacific
British Empire
British Columbian University
Parliament House
Ottawa
Parliament Buildings Victoria Add Library Block Tenders Open
Plans for a new central library block at Parliament Buildings in Victoria were unveiled. Tenders must be filed by August 15 for the addition designed by F M Rattenbury with J Griffiths supervising. The project costs are estimated near 250000 dollars and aims to create an ultra modern Dominion public library.
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Victoria
Superior Street
Public Works Department
J. ©. Griffiths
F. M. Rattenbury
British Columbia
Dominion of Canada
Forest Fire Waste A Call To Careful Campfire Use In BC
An appeal from the Provincial Lands Department urges strict fire prevention in timbered areas. It cites 1184 fires last season causing vast timber losses and deaths, urging campers to clear around camps, extinguish fires fully, avoid leaving smouldering material, and never build fires near logs or dry debris. It argues forests support the economy and tax revenue, and asks public vigilance to cut waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provincial Lands Department
British Columbia
British Emigration Rise at Imperial Conference
Mr John Burns announced at the Imperial Conference that total emigrants from Great Britain in 1911 would reach about 300 000, with 230 000 or near 77 percent going to the Empire. He noted 1906 and 1910 totals and a 28 000 rise in the first four months of 1911, chiefly to Australia and New Zealand, signaling a strong imperial migration trend.
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John Burns
Great Britain
Burns
Australia
New Zealand
Emigration Limits Debated For Empire Population Balance
A conference discussed GB emigration limits noting about 300 000 yearly outflow with 80 percent destined for other parts of the empire. It warned the UK’s birth rate could not sustain such loss, urging Dominions to accept surplus without draining the home country’s population.
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United Kingdom
Scotland
Ireland
Great Britain
Recipes for Orange Cake Marmalade Cake and Wine Biscuit
Old newspaper style cooking notes detail Orange Cake using 3 eggs 8 eggs total, butter, flour and orange rind with baking powder. Marmalade Cake mixes marmalade with flour sugar butter eggs and milk baked in tins. Wine Biscuit combines Vienna flour butter sugar and eggs formed into portions baked with flavoring and toppings.
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Vienna
Tea Biscuit And Short Bread Recipes From A 1911 Note
A fragment lists Tea Biscuit and Short Bread ingredient methods with butter sugar almonds and lemon essence. It then shifts to a land notice from Skeena District, Coast Range, declaring T M Turner of Lakelse Valley intends to purchase lands along a specified right of way, dated June 14, 1911, with agent John Kirkaldy.
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Skeena Land District
Coast—Range
T. M. Turner
Lakelse Valley
Omineca & Hazelton
N. B
John Kirkaldy
Vancouver capitalists eye sugar beet plant near Quesnel
Mr. W. F. Dunphy of Vancouver led a party including Joseph Reiming of Oxnard and his nephew, plus Dr. Mellahod, to Quesnel to inspect the district for investments. They praised the soil and water, and saw strong potential for a sugar beet factory near the Fraser and Quesnel rivers.
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Quesnel
W. F. Dunphy
Vancouver
Messrs
Joseph Reimng
Oxnard Gcal
Joseph Reiming
Mellahod
Oxnard Cal
Dunphy
Fraser
Be a paying proposition here for sugar factory plans
Dr Mellahad notes herb study and finds ginseng locally though his attempts to grow it failed. He and two others plan to return to arrange building a sugar factory here, a move Quesnel citizens will hope comes to fruition.
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Mellahad
China
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Dick” McBride
Parliament Buildings
Ation
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch Brewery
St. Louis, Mo
the North British Columbia Liquor Co., Limited
Prince Rupert, B.C
the Canadian OF Commerce
Arabia
Ustrali
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Mund Walke
Alexander
Crete
Cuba
Egypt
Faroe Islands
Finland
Formosa
Nerai
Fr'dh Cochin
Germany
Christie
R. C.\ LAIRD
Greece Halland
Ll.d. D.C.L
General Mana
Malta
Mandht
Mexico
Erling
RES
Norway
Panama
South Africa
Seven Straits Settlement
Ien
Switzerland
Torken
United States
Uruguay
Siam West Indies
Nee Rup
Aneh
Mantel
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