Census Tells Population Of Eskimos In Hudson Bay Lands
A census bulletin reports about six hundred Eskimos on the east coast of Hudson Bay with reliable names but uncertain ages. It covers the Churchill district, Melville Peninsula, Baffin Island, and Port Burwell. Observers describe harsh living conditions, cultural practices, and economic misunderstandings in the Arctic communities.
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Census Bulletin
Canada
Ungava
Hudson Bay
Churchill District
Dominion
R. J. Renison
Moosonee
Courtlandt Starnes
Fort Churchill
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Fort Churchil
Melville Peninsula
Melville Peninsula. Mr. Stearnes
Sergt
Hayter
Jami M. Fabien Vanasse
Arctic
Bernier
Baffin Island
Kilkenek
Port Burwell
Hudson Straits
Esskimee
Pensions for Widows Support Widows and Children in New York
A New York commission of inquiry urges a sweeping pension system for widows with children. It lauds widows for keeping families intact and law abiding, notes many mothers must work, and estimates 56000 neglected children. It proposes $500000 to enable indigent widows to live comfortably at home.
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Commission of Inquiry
New York
Cldren
Lady Survivor of Lucknow Dies in Edinburgh at 85
Mrs. Eliza beth Anderson died in Edinburgh in her 85th year as one of the few surviving ladies from the Lucknow siege. Her husband Dr. Thomas Anderson served as a medical officer in India and was stationed at Delhi. She recalled being in the taikhana cellar used by Europeans to escape heat, beneath the room where Sir Henry Lawrence died.
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Edinburgh
Elizabeth Anderson
Lucknow
Anderson
Thomas Anderson
India
Delhi
Wered City
Sir Henry Lawrence
Cold Storage Eggs Import Figures For Canada
Canada imported 13,000,000 dozen eggs in one year. British Columbia accounted for five and a half million dozen of the total.
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Canada
British Columbia
Railway Fire Protection Efforts Improve Across Provinces
A report notes Dominion and provincial cooperation in railway fire protection, with two lumbermen cooperatives safeguarding nearly 14 million acres in Quebec. Railways reduce fire risk by clearing debris, maintaining spark arresters, deploying patrols, and training staff. most serious May fires began away from rail lines, often tied to slash-jarring by settlers.
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Quebec
Railway Commission
C. L
Reducing Strength of Permanent Units in Canada
The minister of militia plans to cut the two permanent force units the engineer corps and army service corps to a smaller, workable size. Colonel Sam Hughes aims to reduce them from their ten year old, inflated strength. The army service corps now numbers about 150 and the engineering corps about 300, with transfers to other corps guaranteed by military law.
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Engineer Corps
Army Service Corps
Minister of Militia
Sam Hughes
Canadian Army Service Corps
Engineering Corps
Fox color varieties in Ungava Arctic region
Explorer Low notes a 1887 Moose river fox litter with seven cubs showing red cross black and silver colors. Northern Ungava yields white Arctic foxes rare south of Lake Michikamau, along Hudson Bay coast near James Bay. Blue fox more scarce than white. single furs fetch over $2,000 and select Ungava live foxes sell for $5,000 to $10,000 each.
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Low
Moose River
Ungava
Quebec
Lake Michikamau
Nichican
Hudson Bay
James Bay
Neglected Pacific Herring Industry Yields Missed Boon
Observers warn British Columbia's coast harbors from Nanaimo to Prince Rupert host vast herring shoals year round. Despite this potential, investment centers on salmon packing, leaving other fisheries underdeveloped as canneries idle much of the year and labor scarce during peak seasons.
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British Columbia
Nanaimo
Pender
Prince Rupert
Quatsiac Sound
Freser
Immigration act revision proposed to strengthen penalties
The Canadian Immigration act, already granting broad powers, is to be revised next session. Proposals include penalties on ship owners for Hindus brought to Canada and a new rule making the ship itself subject to sale. Other points aim to stiffen the law to better define who may be admitted and who may be rejected.
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Canada
Japan
Gurdit Singh
Displaying Whale Bones in Ottawa Showpiece
In Ottawa at Queen and O Connor streets a whale skeleton hangs on a clothes line. Fins, front feet, and vertebrae are strung along an iron pipe beside the apominion fisheries exhibit building. The whale, forty five feet long, recently swam in the North Atlantic and will take the summer to assemble and mount.
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Queen and
O’connor
Ottawa
North Atlantc
Electric Snow A Fierce Antarctic Expedition Tale
Dr Mawson recounted his 1911 18 Antarctic expedition at the Royal Geographical Society. He described landing on Arelie Land south of Australia where winds tore at loose objects and snow drifts buried the hut leaving only a roof edge visible. Nighttime ice charged with electricity made objects glow blue.
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Mawson
Royal Geographical Society
Arelie Land
Australia
Opposition to a standard railway fence by Dominion commission
A C Cartwright argues against the Dominion railway commission prescribing a general fence standard. The board’s engineering department notes wide variation among railways. Grand Trunk Pacific uses five wires with a top board while Grand Trunk and Canadian Northern employ seven or ten wires in different configurations. Canadian Pacific varies between five wires for livestock and seven on level ground, with a bottom wire six inches from the ground.
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Dominion Railway Commission
A.C Cartwright
Grand Trunk Pacific
Grand Trunk Railway
Canadian Pacific
A Silent World Predicted at Rubber Congress
Sir Henry Blake presided at the rubber congress in Islington's Agricultural Hall and forecast a future where rubber replaces wood for street pavements and even church and building coverings. He cited 1913 rubber output of 108,440 tons versus 5,400 tons in 1908, underscoring surging production.
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Henry Blake
Agricullural
Islington
Insects cost Canada 50 million yearly crops loss urged protection
Canada faces at least fifty million dollars yearly in crop damage from insects, per the Agricultural Gazette. The department of agriculture urges protecting ins sect-killing birds. Investigations show woodpeckers rely 65 percent on insects, flycatchers 6 percent, wrens 55 percent of their annual diet. Birds also eat weed seeds.
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Canada
Agricultural Gazette
Department of Agriculture
Canadians Like Sugar in Food Use Across Nations
Canadians consume nearly 70 pounds of sugar per person annually while Italy's per capita intake is about eleven pounds, highlighting stark differences in dietary habits and nutrition patterns between the two countries.
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Italy
Yukon railway to follow new lines to Behring Sea
Dr Alfred Thompson MP predicts a Canadian North BC to Yukon to Alaska rail link. A Grand Trunk Pacific BC route through northern BC to Yukon would connect Vancouver to the Behring Sea, opening vast territory and boosting BC trade. He cites US Alaska plans and Yukon gold output of about 6 million dollars this year.
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British Columbia
Yukon
Vancouver
Behring Sea Ty
Alaska
Canadian Northern Pacific
Grand Trunk Pacific Railways
Alfred Thompson
Canada
Grand Trunk Pacific
United States
Sydney
C.B
Behring Sea
Dr. Thompson
Franklin K. Lane
Washington
Richard McBride
Yukon Territory
Pulpwood Consumption Rise Highlights Canadian Industry
Canada’s pulp and paper sector grows as 1913 reports show 48 firms operating 65 mills, producing over a million cords of pulpwood and 800,000 tons of pulp. Groundwood dominates, Quebec leads, and British Columbia climbs to third as spruce remains key despite rising eastern balsam fir and BC hemlock usage.
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Canada
Forestry Branch
Interior Department
Quebec
British Columbia
United States
Surviving Chillianwalla veterans marked by birthdays
General de Berry of Rochester, one of three survivors of the Chillianwalla battle, has just celebrated his first birthday. The other survivors are Drum Major John Harvey of Manchester, age 82, and W. D. H. Baillie of Wellington, New Zealand, nearly 90. The 1849 battle on January 13 turned Sikh war later leading to Punjab annexation. The 24th Foot, now the South Wales Borderers, bore the brunt, taking bayonets and 20 guns. de Berry was mentioned in despatches for extraordinary courage.
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de Berry
Chillianwalla
Rochester
John Harvey
Manchester
W. D. H. Baillie
Wellington
New Zealand
India
Punjab
24Th Foot
South Wales Borderers
Quebec Civil Code Anomaly Cited In Separation Case
In Montreal Justice Demers of the superior court addressed a queer civil law anomaly. Virginia Bradley Giroux sued her husband for separation. It emerged the defendant is her second husband and brother of her first husband. The judge ruled she cannot obtain separation and that the marriage is null and void under Quebec civil code provisions.
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Quebec
Montreal
Justice Demers
Superior Court
Joseph Giroux
Virginia Bradley
Fearless women divers of Japan work in icy waters
The shellfish divers of Toba, Japan, are mainly women who perform strenuous underwater labor. A visitor recalls two divers leaping overboard in cold seas, swimming to the boat with shellfish and seaweed, then returning to dive repeatedly. The process includes distinctive breathing sounds as preparation, and after dives the divers are warmed by a nearby fire on the neighboring island.
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Japan
Toba
W D. Cameron
Far East
Welsh Coal Shippers Fear For Future Amid American Trade Gains
The American coal trade is cutting into Welsh dominance in the Mediterranean market. Cardiff reports 109000 tons of coal ordered by Italian state railways for six months, totaling 300000 tons this year, while Egyptian state railways also buy more from the United States. Despite Welsh miners working at full capacity, cheaper American shipments now reach French and Spanish ports, raising concerns over long term steadiness of Welsh orders and future capacity.
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Mediterranean
South Wales
Cardiff
Wales
America
Archduke Francis Ferdinand’s American Tip Framed Note
Archduke Francis Ferdinand valued a Swiss hundred franc banknote given as a tip by an American. An accomplished alpinist and hunter, he often roughs it at his Blumbachtal shooting lodge. He guided three lost Americans past the Bernina pass, who later paid him with the banknote he had framed.
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Francis Ferdinand
Archduke
Blumbachtal
Tyrolese Alps
Bernina Pass
Danish schooner Hans Egede brings Rasmussen home with meteor stone
The Danish government schooner Hans Egede docked in Lerwick with Knud Rasmussen aboard after a 1200 mile sledge journey from Greenland. He reported a 19,000 pound meteorite worth half a million pounds sterling found during his trip. The stone will go to Copenhagen, while Rasmussen and four Eskimo men and one Eskimo woman travel as passengers.
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Hans Egede
Lerwick Harbor
Greenland
Copenhagen
Knud Rasmussen
Rasmussen
Earl Grey Explains Dominion Building Scheme at Aldwych
Earl Grey told the Dominion Royal commission that no one connected with the plan to erect an imperial building on the Aldwych site sought personal gain. He said the structure would display Dominion produce rather than serve as a market. The commission resumes in London in November after a visit to Canada.
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Earl Grey
Dominion
Royal Commission
Aldwych
London
Canada
Tree Planting in France Watershed Program Cost
France has spent 35.009 million dollars on a watershed tree planting program. This effort targets major streams to strengthen flood control and soil conservation, with government and regional agencies coordinating reforestation on priority basins.
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France
Vast Prairie West Homestead Openings Reach 27 Million Acres
The article notes 174 706 homesteads spread across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with 27 952 960 acres available for free entry. It highlights proximity to the Canadian Northern Railway with 142 262 homesteads tributary to it. Many lots border timber and water, suited to mixed farming, and could raise Dominion revenue of about 1 747 060 dollars from fees. The population impact could exceed one million.
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Prairie West
Canadian West
Mani
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Oak Point
Dominion
Winnk
Canadian Northern Railway
Canadian Northern West
West
Panama Will Increase Trade Through S S Flood Report
A report to the department of trades and commerce says the Panama canal will let BC lumber exporters compete with the West Indies. It notes misgivings about Douglas fir and western pine vs Eastern Canada and US pitch pine, and plans to send lumber samples to Trinidad Jamaica British Guiana and northern islands for comparison to guide early post canal trade.
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Department of Trades and Commerce
Panama Canal
British Columbia
West Indies
Tropics
Canada
United States
Trade Department of
Trinidad
Jamaica
British Guiana
Islands
Government buys cattle for Saskatchewan farmers
The Saskatchewan live stock branch has purchased over 200 head of cattle this season for distribution to farmers across Regina Lloydminster Duval North Battleford and Lumsden. The cattle are pure bred males and high grade females. The livestock policy aids mixed farming and farmers report rising cattle numbers as settlers see the branch's value.
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Saskatchewan Livestock Branch
Regina
Lloydminster
Duval
North Hatteford
Lumsden
Cale
Saskatchewan
Repcarte
Dutch Government Invites Taxations for Peace Conference Delegates
The Dutch government has invited taxations to join the second peace conference to appoint delegates for a convention. The proposed committee would meet at The Hague to frame a definite program for the third conference. The date cited is June 1, 19m.
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KH Jp
The
Hague
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