Labour Congress Elects Watters Victoria President
J C Watters of Victoria was elected president of the Dominion Trades Congress by a majority of thirty. Ban croft becomes vice president. The congress rejects forming a Canadian labor party and plans next annual convention at Guelph. Debate covers social reform and wages amid calls for economic equality to curb social ills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Watters
Victoria
Dominion Trades Congress
Bancroft
Labor Party
Guelph
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Congress
Canada
Draper
Laws
Promotion Made at Hudsons Bay Company Lands Commission Post
J A Thomson of Victoria is named land commissioner for the Hudsons Bay Company based in Winnipeg. He has long directed BC fur trading and steamship operations, and will oversee vast land holdings while continuing to serve the western frontier heritage he helped mold.
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Hudson’s Bay Company
Canada
J. A. Thompson
Victoria
Winnipeg
Gentlemen Adventurers
Thomson
Fort Liard
Hudson's Bay
British Columbia Fur Trading District
Hudson's Bay Steamship Service
Hudson's Bay Lands
British Columbia
Hudson’s Bay
Lord Strathcona
British Isles
Orkney Islands
C. C. Chipman
Burbidge
Harrod's
Great London Stores
West
Hudson's Bay Company
Notices of land sale and lease applications in Skeena district
A long list of noticees including Harry Martin from Vancouver and others in Vancouver Chicago and Masset seeks land purchases or leases. Descriptions cover Lot 993 Lot 991 Lot 992 Lot 8982 and Lakelse Lake shore parcels with 320 to 820 acres, posted dates in July August 1911. Also water and liquor licenses and tender invites with locations Prince Rupert Copper River and Skeena River districts.
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Andrew Christian Skjelbred
Prince Rupert
B. C
Lake Lakelse
Skeena Land Division
Coast District
Christian Skjelbred, Prince Rupert
B. G
Copper City Hotel
Copper River
Skeena District
Copper City
Harvey Crhhch
New Diesel Vessel Launch Triggers Cargo Trade Shake-Up
A new oil carrying ship built in an English yard sails to Canada under its own power. Reported to revolutionize Great Lakes trade, the 241 foot vessel features a Diesel engine, 42 ½ foot beam, 14 foot draught and burns about 13 4 tons of crude oil daily.
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Canadian Great Lakes
Atlantic
Allan Orr Land Claim Notice in Queen Charlotte Islands
Allan Orr of Masset British Columbia a carpenter takes notice of a parcel in Skeena Land District District of Queen Charlotte Islands described as three and one half miles north and one mile west from the northwest corner of Lot 992 with 640 acres bounded west east 80 chains and south. George 8 Mayer Agent
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Skeena
Queen Charlotte Islands
Eliza Sutherland
Blair
Nebraska
Point Commencement
Liza Sutherland
George S. Mayer
Aimee Merrill
Masset
B. C
George 8
Mayer
Harry Martin
Vancouver
George 8. Mayer
Burton Vivian Brewer
Queen —.Carlotte Islands
Edgar J. Young
Vancouver B. C
Margaret Merrill
Chicago
Illinois
U.S.A
Arthur W. Nelson
Frank Gray
Blair, Nebrasaka
Wirt A.stevens
Wirta
Stevens
Christina Orr
Dilen Ives
Point of
Ellen Ives
Joseph ©. Merrill
Ain River
Joseph C. Merrill
Norman Hurst
CG. Verne Brewer
C. Verne Brewer
John Henry
William Robert Little
Mason
Fred Jackson
Fred. Jackson
Stanley Holbrook
Patrick O'Don C
Skeena Lands District
Cassiar
Marion McDiarmid
London
Ontario
Kitwancool River
Kitwancool Lake
Daniel McDonald
Skeena Land District
Coast
Philip T. Chesley
Prince Rupert
Shames River
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Range 5
Coast District
Province of
British Columbia
Skeena River
Allan Orr
Carpenter
Land notice describing Turner parcel in Lakelse Valley
TAK NOTICE that T M Turner of Lakelse Valley, farmer, commences at a post on the Omineca Hazelton right of way adjoining Lot 618 N B corner, then west 17 chains to Lot 8996 corner, then north 20 chains, proceeding along the right of way to the starting point.
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Skeena
Also Mentioned on This Page
Labor Congress
Calgary
United States
McVentie
The
Journal
J. A. Thomson
J. L. Parker
Prince Rupert Ian
Frederick Peters, K
Haul
L. D
Crown and Bridge
Helgerson Bk
Nickerson-Roerig Company
J. W. Potter
Law-Butler Building
H.gordon Munro
Nicholson Lailey
Prince Rupert, B. C. P. O
Haynor Bros
W. B. Clayton
Westenhaver
Orme’s
District of Coast
Alice Munro
Lakelse Lake
Lakelse
GT Anghy
Holbrook
Patrick O'Connor
William H. Hargrave
WM. Mahlon Davis
Supt. of Water Works
D. G. Stewart
H. C. Breckenridge
T. M. Turner
John Kirkaldy
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