Canada Must Use Natural Wealth to Grow Population
The piece argues half the Maritime provinces lose population as workers flee to the west and New England. It calls for using forests fisheries and minerals to create jobs, keep manufacturing domestic, and boost a self reliant economy with pulpwood to pulp mills at home. It includes a U S pulp wood cost example to illustrate labor value and potential population gains.
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Maritime Provinces
Quebec
Great West
Lake Superior
Rocky Mountains
United States
United States Committee On
Adirondacks
Watertown
Niagara
Canada
Ad Patek
Otto
New Brunswick
Immigrant Influx Projections Discussed in Ottawa
Commissioner W D Scott told the commons agriculture committee that Canada could see up to 200000 immigrants this year with last year totaling 146908 a 44 percent drop from the prior year. He noted 70000 hoped from the United States and said medical checks were cursory at embarkation for assisted arrivals.
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Ottawa
W. D. Scott
Commission of Immigration
Commons Agriculture Committee
Canada
Alphonse Verville
Maisonneuve
Scott
Gang Plank
Naval Conference Warmly Approved
The Royal Colonial Institute approved the gallant offers of colonial governments to provide battleships and join naval defence. Premier Rasquith proposed an imperial defence conference. Sir Joseph Ward of New Zealand pledged cooperation, and London circles discuss a likely early conference.
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London
Royal Colonial Institute
Rasquith
New Zealand
Joseph Ward
House of Commons
Plan To Signal Mars By Mirrors Proposed In France
Prof W H Pickering outlines a Mars signalling plan using mirrors. Camille Flammarion endorses feasibility and July as ideal timing. He notes practical hurdles but says they are surmountable if 10 000 000 dollars are provided.
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Mars
Paris
Camille Flammarion
Pickering
Germany Seeks Treaty Over Canada-German Tariff War
Berlin chamber of commerce reports worsening trade with Canada amid tariff war. Imports fell from 481,667 to 346,865 pounds and exports from 1,451,422 to 995,196 pounds in 1907, boosting Germany in talks with traders and agriculturists as consul-general Lang observes.
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Germany
London
Berlin Chamber of Commerce
Canada
Lang
Tornado Devastates Cleveland Nine Dead Missing Italian Named
A Cleveland tornado death toll reaches nine including Jos. Vessala, Mrs. Olive Phalen, Jos. Conwell, Clarence Troutman, Aurthur Niedblaski, Louis Petron, Harry Bender, J. R. Woodworth and an unidentified Italian. Estimated city losses near five million with about ten thousand left unemployed.
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Cleveland
Jos. Vessala
Olive Phalen
Jos. Conwell
Clarence Troutman
Aurthur Niedblaski
Louis Petron
Harry Bender
J. R. Woodworth
Imperial Proposals in Melbourne Report on Military Authority
General Hoad states in his Melbourne report that imperial staff schemes remove British authorities from military decisions while the minister of defence for Australia is left unnamed and uncertain.
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Melbourne
Hoad
Imperial General Staff
Minister of Defence
Australia
Missionary Call and First Paul Saul As Paul in Cyprus
Sunday School lesson on Acts thirteen framing Barnabas and Saul’s separation by the Holy Ghost. They travel from Antioch to Salamis and Paphos, where Saul becomes Paul and defeats a false prophet, leading to a deputy’s conversion. The text stresses ministering to the Lord, separation for divine work, and the dangers of false doctrine.
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Prem Asocistica
Barnabas
Saul
Antioch
Jerusalem
Jobn Mark
Sam Ili
Earth
Heaven
Salamis
Cyprus
Isa
Paphos
Paul
God
Jesus Christ
Notable Attractions in Winnipeg Walker Theatre Season
Winnipeg theatregoers await a Metropolitan lineup at the Walker Theatre featuring Clyde Fitch’s Girls and The Right of Way with stars Theodore Roberts and Gay Standing. The Merry Widow by Henry W Savage comes with Edith Miller and Nazimova in English and Russian productions. Lillian Russell debuts in Wildfire while Hedda Gabler and The Servant in the House headline a sym bolical program. The Gingerbread Man closes the note with a popular musical spectacle.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Walker
Clyde Fitch
Sam S
Lee Schubert
Ufler
Gilbert Parker
Theodore Roberts
Gay
Franz
Edith Miller
England
Miss Miller
Edward
Nazimova
Nazee-mo-va
London
New York
Hedda Gabler
Charles Rann Kennedy
Copper Discovery Near Portage Lake
A valuable copper vein was found during Transcontinental railway construction near Portage Lake northwest of Sturgeon Lake. Workers uncovered the rich vein in a rock cut and H. J. Mac Kenzie filed the mining claim with Port Arthur's mining recorder.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Portage Lake
Sturgeon Lake
H. J. MacKenzie
Mining Recorder
Montreal spared from Great Lakes strike impact
Thos. Rob secretary of the Shipping Federation says the American sailors and engineers strike on the Great Lakes cannot affect Montreal. He notes the Lake Carriers' association mainly ore transporters, while most Canadian vessels carry grain.
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Canada
Montreal
Thos. Rob
The
Shipping Federation
Great Lakes
Lake Carriers’ Association
Pope Opposes Suffrage Asserts Women Cannot Be Equal
In Rome the pope rebuked a delegation from the Union of Italian Catholic Ladies saying women can never be man's equal and thus cannot have political rights. He added that few women wish to legislate and those who do would be eccentric.
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Rome
Union
American steamer shelled by Canadian gunboat then seized
The American fishing steamer Charles Levi Woodbury was shelled near Vancouver Island by the Canadian Kestrel, forced to heave to, and boarded by officers who took control. Captain Sinclair surrendered after fire damaged sails and mast. Captain Newcombe of the Kestrel calls it a clear case against the Yankee schooner.
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Vancouver
Canada
Charles Levi Woodbury
Woodbury
Vancouver Island
Sinclair
Keatres
Newcombe
Prevent Gambling in Options Proposed in Illinois Bill
Springfield, Ill. a bill by G H Wilson of Quincy would make gambling in options a penitentiary offense. Corners in wheat and provisions would be forbidden and speculators barred from manipulating bread prices while leaving legitimate trading intact. Violation could bring one to fourteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
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Springfield
G. H. Wilson
Quincy
House of Representatives
Board
Stock Exchange
Free Canadian Cattle Debate Reaches Parliament
At a London conference of the Free Importation of Canadian Cattle Association and MPs, ex-Baillie Watson of Glasgow blamed Irish members as the barrier. MP J W Cleland said governments would avoid the issue as non political. W M Henderson called Ireland’s attitude absurd citing animal diseases. A parliamentary committee was proposed to advance the movement.
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London
Association For the Free
Baillie Watson
Glasgow
J. W. Cleland
M P
W. M. Henderson
Ireland
Ottawa moves to create new labor portfolio
In Ottawa a bill to establish a new portfolio of labor will be introduced in the Commons by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. W. L. Mackenzie King, named minister of the new department, is in China on a mission at an international opium conference and will travel back to Ottawa mid next month.
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Ottawa
Commons
Wilfrid Laurier
W. L. Mackenzie King
China
Canada
Prosperous Alberta Shaped by Strong Livestock Exports
Alberta's 1908 livestock shipments included 11 416 horses valued at 1 255 760 and 53 520 cattle plus 34 589 butcher's cattle and 5 570 feed cattle valued at 4 220 000. Population and production figures show 175 000 range horses 750 000 cattle 145 000 sheep with 25 000 cattle on feed awaiting shipment. Sheep and hog shipments in 25 402 and 48 163 hogs valued at 128 900 and 433 467. Wheat yield averaged 30 bushels per acre and these data underscore Alberta's prosperity.
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Alberta
Caleery
Alta
House of Prosperity
Advice To Emigrants From London Lecture
Professor W L Grant of Oxford spoke at the Imperial Colonial club on An Englishman in Canada. He said Canadians were shedding the old idea of remittance and about 9 percent of emigrants did well. Failures were mainly Londoners who moved to towns and caused locals to view English as unemployables. The emigrant should avoid boastfulness and study the new country.
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London
Imperial Colonial Club
W. L. Grant
Oxford
Canada
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