Major Bell a storied Northwest pioneer and bravest trapster
Major Bell of Bell Farm at Indian Head shaped early western history as a daring organizer and horseman. He led the Qu Appelle Land and Colonisation Company, faced frost drought and high freight, and later built Whitewood businesses and a famed horse stock, sharing a dramatic escape tale in Chicago during a bribery incident.
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Major Bell
Bell Farm
Rebellion
West
Great Farm
Indian Head
Qu’ Appelle Land and Colonisation Company
General) Ottery
Chicago
Clark Street
Colonel Ottery
Etty
Arry
Parlliament
Dewdney
East Assiniboia
Grenfell
W. White
Q.C
Moosomin
W. W. Macdonald
Fleming
Richardson
Hawkes
Whitewood
W. R. Bell
Macdonald
Ireland
North West Council
Qu’Appelle
Thomas Wesley Jackson
Fort Qu’Appelle
North Territories
Pioneer Merchant Benjamin Limoges Narrated
Benjamin Limoges a French Canadian pioneer merchant of the North West Territories is described as energetic and forceful. He worked as a miner in the mountains and was famed as the strongest man in camp. He was educated refined and noted for dancing before health declined in the early eighties and he pursued business.
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Benjamin Limoges
North West Territories
Alberta Oil Supply in British Hands Drive at AGM
Three eminent British Empire petroleum experts and W. R. Martin travel from Edmonton to Athabasca Landing to inspect Northern Production Company holdings. Shareholders hear the need to keep world oil under British control as a new British amalgamation forms to take over Northern Production interests.
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Edmonton
Athabasca Landing
J. A. Stigand
Bowman
Bartlett
Northern Production Company
W. R. Martin
Martin Phillips Company
Medicine Hat
Pioneer Oil and Gas Drilling Company
Alberta
Mr. Coyne
Northen
British oil trust backed by British born directors proposed
The speaker argued that a new corporation would be British controlled, with only British born directors and no transfer of control outside the empire. He noted wartime oil worries and stated the British government’s indirect interest, aiming to keep oil within the empire. Canadian shareholders listed include Premier Norris of Manitoba, Mayor Gray of Winnipeg, Isaac Pitblado, Harry Whitla, Mrs. Nellie McClung, and Traders Trust Co. vice president.
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Great Britain
Mr. Coyne
Alberta
Premier Norris
Manitoba
Mayor Gray
Winnipeg
Isaac Pitblado
K. C
Harry Whitla
K.C
Nellie McClung
Campbell
Vicepresident Traders Trust Co
Canadian Good Roads Convention in Winnipeg Urges Ocean Road
The seventh annual convention of the Canadian Good Roads Association met in Winnipeg last week. Sir James Atkins, the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, urged building a main trunk road from ocean to ocean to improve westward transportation.
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Canadian Good Roads Association
Winnipeg
James Atkins
Manitoba
Ocean
Mountain Lumbermen Association Holds Calgary Meeting
The Mountain Lumbermen Association met in Calgary and said the market was not encouraging. They arranged to promote lumber distribution in the three western prairie provinces.
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The
Mountain Lumbermen’s Association
Calgary
Prairie Provinces
Automobile fatalities in New York rise in May report
The National Protective Society records 45 people killed by automobiles, five by trolleys and three by wagons in New York City streets during May. Outside the city, 47 fatalities occurred due to automobile accidents in New York State.
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New York City
National Protective Society
New York State
Luxury Tax Rules Shaped for Retail Purchases
A recent ruling from the department of customs and inland revenue outlines luxury tax collection for retailers. Vendors must deliver an itemized invoice including tax and collect the tax from buyers at the point of sale, and cannot advertise that they pay the tax for customers.
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Department of Customs and Inland Revenue
American Wheat Crop Short Despite May Gains
A Washington despatch reports 1920 total wheat production estimated at 781,000,000 bushels, about 160,000,000 bushels below 1919, despite a May uptick of 19,000,000 in winter wheat and a spring crop 68,000,000 bushels above last year. A White House memorial warned of a critical farm period and looming higher food prices due to a near 300,000,000 bushel wheat shortfall and spring weather affecting corn.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
White House
Wilson
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Middleton
North West
Limoges
Assiniboia
Bravery
Comte Henri de Soras
Comte de Beaulincourt
Count de Langle
Comte de Rouffinac
Comte de Joumnillhac
Marquis de Richelieu
Burg
Northwest
Mr. Ben
Britain
GEM Ear Phone Co
Canada
Dept
New York
West 34Th St
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