Pacific Cable expands land line Auckland to Vancouver to Montreal
The Pacific Cable Company will install three thousand miles of land line from Vancouver to Montreal to improve Canadian dispatches to the Mother Country. New Wheatstone machines will relay at White River Winnipeg Calgary and Vancouver boosting speed. London executives Baxendale Milward and Carr head the project with operations across Canada and Sydney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Cable Company
Vancouver
Montreal
C.P.R. Company
Tio Cable
Carr
London
Milward
Banfield Station
Sydney
Cable
C.P.R
White River
Winnipeg
Calgary
Messrs. Baxendale
Baxendale
Canso
Atlantic
Power project eyed for Bulkley river falls
An English company led by Sir Ernest Shackleton plans a large power plant at the Bulkley river falls in Moricetown. A report by an engineer will come within a month and, if favorable, work will start after securing legal rights. The Morice falls development could cost around a million dollars and supply cheap electricity to mines smelters and industry. The falls lie twenty eight miles from Hazelton.
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Ernest Shackelton
Bulkley River
Moricetown
Omineca Herald
Moricetown Falls
Hazelton
Furs Scarce As Rabbit Plague Reduces Hudsons Bay Trade
Receipts of furs from interior posts of the Hudsons Bay Company are very light this year with practically no lynx reported. The Omineca Herald notes the cause as a rabbit plague four years earlier, which decimated rabbit populations and is only slowly recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson's Bay Company
Omineca Herald
Tsimpsean Lodge Installs Officers in Vancouver A F and A M
Institute Local Lodge No. 58 in Tsimpsean was instituted Saturday night with D G M Frank J Burd and G W Burke of Vancouver assisting. Officers installed include W M F W Dowling S W M M Stephens J W A J Jorris treasurer D G Stewart secretary F T Bowness D D A W Hoge J D D M Moore D of C W T Thompson chaplain W Manson organist P Kauffman I G G R Lawle L S G L Peck J S Dr McNeill Tyler J M Munnis.
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Tsimpsean Lodge
A. F
IA. M
D. G. M. Frank J. Burd
Vancouver
G. W. Burke
W.M
F. W. Dowling
S.W
M. M. Stephens
J.W
A. J. Jorris
D. G. Stewart
F. T. Bowness
Dominion line extension to reach coast land with Kitsumkalum route
Prince Rupert residents back a Dominion telegraph extension along the Portland Canal to Observatory Inlet and then Kitsumkalum, linking to mining properties and canneries. J T Phelan, returning from inspection, will report to authorities and begin work after preliminaries. Construction crews and more stations expand service as delays and forest hazards challenge the pioneer line.
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Dominion Government
Oortland Canal
Kitsumkalum
Naas Valley
Observatory Inlet
Prince Rupert
J. T. Phelan
Vancouver
Portland
Maple Bay
Phelan
Hazelton
Fort George
Upper Fraser
Phat
Municipal Committee Roles and Names Listed
The passage lists mayor and alderman names and committee assignments. Fred Stork serves as mayor with various aldermen including Mobley Hilditch Lynch Barrow Naden Pattullo and others assigned to Finance Streets Works Fire and Water Light and Telephone Health Relief License and Police and Police.
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Fred Stork
F. H. Mobley
A. A. McIntyre
T. D. Pattullo
W. P. Lynch
A. R. M. Barrow
W. W. Smith
J. H. Hilditch
G. R. Naden
Ald
Pattullo
Smith
Hilditch
aAld
Lynch
Barrow
Mobley
Naden
Prince Rupert By law Debt Vote Set For August Eight
The Municipal Council of Prince Rupert fixes Monday August 8 1910 at City Hall as the vote date to approve a 40000 debenture loan to acquire the Prince Rupert Telephone Company assets. Polls open 9 am to 7 pm with Ernest A Woods as Returning Officer. By law authorizes twenty year debt and annual rate levies to cover interest and sinking fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Prince Rupert
City of Prince Rupert
Ujion
Ernest A. Woods
Prince Rupert Council Enacts 40000 Debenture Plan
The bylaw sets a forty thousand dollar debt for twenty years from August 12 1910 with debentures payable by rising annual rates to cover interest and a sinking fund. Debentures may be issued in currency sterling or gold and payable at major banks in Prince Rupert Montreal London and New York.
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Wilerieas
City of
Prince Rupert
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Montreal
Canada
London
England
New York
U.S. A
B.C
Toronto
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Rupert
Dissolution of Partnership at Seal Cove Mill
The partnership between Arthur F Rowe and F E Cowell at the B C Tie and Timber saw mill site in Seal Cove Prince Rupert B C is dissolved. Rowe collects all accounts and pays only labor costs since plant installation. Dated July 9 1910.
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Arthur F. Rowe
F. E. Cowell
B. C. Tie & Timber Company
Seal Cove
Prince Rupert
B.C
A. F. Rowe
Arthur F, Rowe
Fred Becowell
Prince Rupert Council Plans Nays Cove Avenue Roadway
The Municipal Council of Prince Rupert intends a sixteen foot plank roadway on Nays Cove Avenue from Sixth Avenue to Kelliher Street with grading to sub grade. It will assess final costs on benefited property and the lands proposed for assessment are filed for inspection. The estimated cost is TM 1 400,00. City Clerk Ernest A Woods dated July 22.
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Municipal Corporation of the
City of
Prince Rupert
Nays Cove Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Kelliher Street
Immanuel and
Kelliher
Prince Ripert
A.D
Wrnest A, Woods
General Steamship and Railway Agent Prince Rupert
General Steamship and Railway Agent in Prince Rupert British Columbia office handles bookings freight and passenger arrangements for connections across coastal routes and inland rail lines. Represents major shipping lines and railway partners coordinating schedules prices and cargo tracking for regional clients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Steamship and Railway Agent
Prince Rupert, B.C
Princess Beatrice Monday 1 PM schedule note
A brief item notes Princess Beatrice has a standing engagement every Monday at 1 p.m. with no further details provided about location or purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Beatrice
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W. F. Carpenter
Second Avenue
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Rupert City Realty & Information Bureau, Ltd
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Coast District
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Victoria
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Canadian Pacific Bay
Seattle
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Princess Royal
Union Steamship Ci’y of B.C. Ltd
Stewart City
Haynor Bros
W. B. Clayton
Westenhaver Block
Orme's Drug Store
Hall, L. D
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Civil Engineer
Exchange Block
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Thompson Hardware Co
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