Alberta University Spearheads Pure Seed Education Plan
Alberta University outlines a seed organization to supply known origin and quality seed to farmers. During the winter season 27 centers formed Local Seed Improve ment squads with about 20 men each, planting and harvesting near 2000 bushels of seed. By 1921 up to 730,000 bushels of seed may be registered, improving yields and grain grades provincewide.
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Universo 7 Art of Alberta
Giseth Wien
Cicaro
Thas
University
Fervices
Department of
Seagwest
Universy
Beld Hucbandry
Cold Storage Plant At Hardy Bay Northern Vancouver Island
Hardy Bay on Vancouver Island hosts a new cold storage and fish company plant to process about 100 tons weekly. It aims to store fish including black cod gray cod red cod rock cod herring pilchards smelts and shellfish plus crabs shrimps and clams. The facility will employ about 28 men and serves halibut boats nearby for bait and ice.
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Vancouver Island
Hardy Bay Cold Storage and Fish Co. Ltd
Hardy Bay
British Columbia
Delay in Prohibition Order Delays Date of Enactment
The government has not yet received complete returns from the four provinces that voted on October 25 to prohibit liquor imports. Final figures from far northern Saskatchewan and Alberta are delaying gazetting. Until all results are received and published there will be no official date for when the verdict becomes effective.
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Saskatchewan
Alberta
Sound Philosophy Hanford Lennox Gordon Dies at 83
Lawyer and Indian fighter Hanford Lennox Gordon, brigadier general, died aged 83. His will limits funeral costs to 100 dollars and directs burial in the poorest clothes. He leaves a 50,000 dollar estate to three children and other relatives and friends. The will cites a Chinese proverb on giving water to the living.
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Hanford Lennox Gordon
Los Angeles
The Control of Natural Resources Debate Reopens
The article discusses transfers of natural resources to western provinces. It notes repeated discussions with no resolved solution and quotes well informed circles claiming settlement is needed between Eastern and Western provinces. It mentions the Dominion Government not opposing transfer but resisting increased subsidies, and reports of possible legal action seen as unlikely to succeed.
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Dominion
Ottawa
How Canada Grows Population of Nine Millions
Canada plans a Dominion census next June with a staff of 13,000 to collect vital statistics. The population is estimated between eight and three-quarters and nine million, based on current bureau estimates. Registries may lag rural areas, and emigration data are lacking. Authorities aim to fix these gaps through closer cooperation between immigration and statistics bureaus.
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Dominion
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Department of Immigration
Bureau of Statistics
Pipe of Peace Valued at $2,000 Presented to Commons
A British House of Commons member donated a unique ineerebaum pipe worth two thousand dollars. Carved in 1871 to symbolize post Franco Prussian War peace, the bowl features Queen Victoria Napoleon III the Duke of Argyle Mr Gladstone Mr Bright and representations of French and Prussian soldiers.
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House of Commons
Queen Victoria
Napoleon III
Duke of Argyl
Gladstone
Bright
Saskatchewan Estimates Passed by Legislature in Session
Supplementary estimates for the year ending April 20, 1921 total 2,055,689 with the telephones department receiving the largest share of 500,000 for construction and other works.
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Saskatchewan
Department of Telephones
Herring Landings in Britain Reach Vast Season Total
The herring forms the chief fishery of the British Isles and about 2,200,000,000 herrings are landed in Britain during a single season according to estimates.
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British Isles
Britain
Conservation Of Bird Life In Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture calls for views from provincial ministers on bird life and conservation. It highlights the value of birds in pest control, notes crop protection losses from grasshopper outbreaks, and promotes school programs to foster bird protection, migratory bird treaties, and stricter game laws to sustain wildlife resources.
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Dorinzen
Department of the Latekier
Ainisters of Agriculture
Dren. C. Ab Frarisuon
Daskat- Cudam
Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture
Canmedas
Wien
Saskatchewan
Rouleau
Bud Tire
Deatihg Nore
Canaua
Man deceives wife more openly than neighbors notice
A man fools his wife about his actions a good deal less than she fools the neighbors about them. The remark contrasts private behavior with public perception, highlighting domestic slyness versus outside ignorance.
Irrigation Drive Targets Southern Alberta Lands
A new district joins Southern Alberta communities seeking irrigation. Farmers from Caringay near Lethbridge voted to irrigate land along the Little Bow River. If surveys show feasibility and funding, surveys will proceed and more districts may follow. About three quarters of a million acres could be irrigated if plans succeed.
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Alberta
de Sorte
Fammers
Carimangay
Lethbridge
Wheat Country
Little Bow River
Alberta Irrigation District Act
Shipping Beef to U S A report from Inveremere
A Inveremere BC report notes cattle shipments begin as eastern quota tions stay low. Major shippers team with others to trial prime steers to Spokane where US exchange boosts returns. Spokane market reachable in about thirty hours via Lake Windsomer/CP line. A large first class beef shipment could open a new profitable southern BC market for farmers and stockmen.
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Inveremere
British Columbia
Spokade
United States Exchange
Spokane
Lake Winderemer
Canadian Pacific Railway
Queen of My Heart nets record $200000 in a year
A song titled Queen of My Heart reportedly earned $200000 in a single year, the largest sum cited for any song. Other profitable works include Writing Profitable Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back, The Man Who Broke the Bank of Monte Carlo, The Rowdy Dowdy Boys, and Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay.
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Bank of
Monte Carlo
Hill 60 Sold for Hotel Site at Ypres Salient
Hill 60 near the Ypres salient has been sold to an English company that plans a hotel on the site for visitors. The hill now remains only a wreck after mines and constant bombardments from April 1915 through the war's end.
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Hill 60
Ypres Salient
Prairie Provinces to Produce Billions of Bushels of Wheat
C Price Green, Canadian National Railways commissioner, spoke at an American Chemical Society meeting in Detroit predicting the prairie provinces will soon yield over a billion bushels of wheat. He said Canada’s vast agricultural lands, aided by CN railways, fuel industrial progress with chemical exports surging during WWI and grain remaining a key export. He noted Canada supplies halfless of the world white paper demand and discussed coal shortages, cheap power, and hydrogen as a future substitute.
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Auilion
Prairie
Canada
C. Price-Green
Department of Resources
Canadian National Railways
American Chemical Society
Detroit
America
United States
Mr. Price- Green
Ian
Leo
Canida
Ghese
Mountain Highway Now Completed
The Banff to Lake Louise auto highway along the Canadian Pacific line is finished with a new bridge over Pipestone Creek near Lake Louise station. The work, begun during wartime by interned enemy aliens, was completed by the Parks Department and Dominion Government, and the road will reopen next spring to allow tourists access to the Canadian Rockies.
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Pipestone Creek
Lake Louise Station
Canadian Rockies
Pacifec
Banff To
Lake Louise
North America
Parks Department
Dominion
Danish Chief of Police Invents Burglary Trap
A Danish police chief invents a burglar trapping device housed in a small box. It connects to a door or window and wires to the telephone. When a burglar enters, a lamp at the exchange lights and the police receive an immediate alarm. Cutting alarm wires also signals the operator.
King's Postage Privileges
The King of England pays no postage, saving about a quarter of 2 million business letters yearly. Heads of tall kingdoms and republics enjoy similar privileges.
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England
Busi ness Man Called Fortune Hunter
A quotation declares that any man engaged in business is a fortune hunter, framing business activity as pursuit of wealth. The remark implies a skeptical view of entrepreneurial aims and hints at moral judgment.
Existence of Great Oil Field Established
Geologist Charles F. Law asserts a confirmed oil field in the Mackenzie River region, predicting a future output of millions of barrels yearly. Law, who has directed wells in Peace River and conducted a north country survey, says the deposits promise not only quantity but high quality oil worth about three times California’s.
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Mackenzie River
Charles F. Law
Pacific Coast
Law
Lord Rhondda
Peace River District
North Country
California
Cheaper Production In Canada Says US Loses Out
The New York Herald editorial argues the United States is being undercut globally by Canada and others due to high wage scales and low labor efficiency. It warns US farmers and exporters must cut costs or lose export markets, noting Canadian wheat undercuts US prices in Chicago and European markets.
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The
New York Herald
United States
Canada
England
Germany
Holland
Japan
the Herald
Chicago
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Rishing Grounds
W. ON
Robert W. Service
Red Cross
U.S
Prairie Provinces
Banff
McKenzie River
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