Romance of the Royal North West Mounted Police on the Plains
A historical overview celebrates the Royal North West Mounted Police shaping Western Canada from Indigenous lands to farming communities. It highlights key episodes across vast regions, notable officers, and standoffs with outlaws like Dutch Henry, illustrating the force’s feared reputation and gradual suppression of lawlessness through the Arctic to the Pacific.
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Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Western
Canada
Royal North West Mounted Police
Mounted Police
Ontario
Pacific Ocean
Arctic
Regina
Arctic Circle
Prairies
India
Fort Swan River
United States
Martin
Fort Qu’Appelle
A. Stewart
Fort Qu’Apelle
Esty
Gavine
An I
Fort Ntktenen
Fitzgerald
Henry
West
Major Stewart
Mr. Stewart
Royal North-West Mounted Police
Prairie
Salmon Pack Expected Along Skeena River
Salmon canneries near Prince Rupert British Columbia prepare for a busy season as Grand Trunk Pacific officials report huge quantities of tin plate carried north by coasting boats Prince Rupert and Prince George. Workers will soon engage in making cans to hold the vast sockeye catches.
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Skeena River
Prince Rupert
British Columbia
Grand Trunk Pacific
Prince George
Real Need Senator Choquette Seeks Criminal Photo Law
In the upper house a bill from Senator Choquette would bar publication of pictures of criminals or suspects in newspapers. The speaker argues the focus should be on protecting respectable citizens from harm and exposure.
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Choquette
Britain's Naval Strength in White Paper Compared
A parliamentary white paper outlines Britain’s naval superiority amid rival powers. It lists ships already built and under construction across battleships cruisers and submarines, showing Britain leading in numbers and future builds against Germany France Russia Italy Austria and others.
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Rg Cncomanng
Great Tain
Europe
Baulit
Great Britain
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Russia
Haly
Walgaf
Russian
Taly
Vesstig
Big Oil Search Near Edmonton North Alberta Prospect
British capital eyes a petroleum search along the Athabasca River six miles north of Edmonton. A $2,000,000 fund is reportedly on view to fund a thorough search if negotiations succeed. The minister of the interior has extended lease rental terms for townships 70 to 74, ranges 23 to 26 west of the fourth meridian, between Moose and Island Lakes about 50 miles north of Athabasca Landing and 100 miles north of Edmonton, with preliminary geological surveys indicating good prospects.
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Athabasca
Edmonton
Canada Gazette
Alberta
Moose
Island Lakes
Athabasca Landing
Canadian Aviation Company Formed in Toronto
The Canadian Aviation Company Limited of Toronto is incorporated with capital stock of 50000 dollars. It will sell monoplanes bi planes flying boats and all kinds of air carriages. It will also supply pilots teach beginners exhibitions operate garages hire trade and manufacture related to aviation. Archibald Dean is the leading director.
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Canadian Aviation Company, Limited
Toronto
Ois
Wmn
Archibald Dean
Condensing Electricity Demonstrated by Madrid Electrician
Signor Iglesiac of Madrid demonstrated an apparatus for condensing and using atmospheric electricity, lighting and extinguishing fifteen bulbs at six hundred yards. Experts saw great potential for cheap industrial current. William Marconi previously lit a bulb six miles away by wireless current from a 100 horsepower engine.
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Signor Iglesiac
Madrid
William Marconi
German Methods in English Coalfields at Doncaster Pit
The Doncaster district’s newest colliery will use German methods and wind and sinking innovations. A contract worth nearly £200,000 is awarded to a German firm and all machinery will be imported from Germany. Central baths at the pithead will be provided as part of the German system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English
Doncaster
Nearey
Germany
Push for Congo Reform to Ease Burden on Belgian Colony
Parliament nudges gradual changes in the Congo as a future Belgian colony. Proposals include endorsing past and future debts, granting greater administrative autonomy, transferring colonial government to Boma for district oversight, establishing a regular yearly budget, and reorganizing judicial power to grant police authority to colonial agents.
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Africa
Leopold
Congo
Belgium
Boma
Alberta Mills Dominate Orient Flour Exports
Medicine Hat Calgary and Lethbridge mills lead Alberta in supplying the Orient flour trade. Medicine Hat shipped 100000 sacks plus 29000 sacks from Medicine Hat Milling Co weighing 49 pounds each. Ellison Milling of Lethbridge ranks as largest exporter to Japan and China, with Medicine Hat close second. Western Milling Calgary and Robin Hood Mills Calgary Moose Jaw also major exporters. Canada’s flour exports to Germany more than doubled in six years, rising from 1962740 barrels valued at 8500000 in 1908 to about 4478000 barrels worth near 20000000 in the past fiscal year. New annexes to Fort William CPR elevator and Grand Trunk Pacific elevator were being completed, with Stewart Co of Chicago holding contracts.
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Medicine Hat
Calgary
Lethbridge
Alberta
Medicine Hat Milling Co
Ellison Milling Company
Japan
China
Western Milling Company
Robin Hood Mills
Moose Jaw
Canada
Germany
Canadian Pacific Railway
Fort William
Grand Trunk Pacific
No Wireless For The Arctic Regions
The Canadian wireless service will not back a proposal by Explorer Stefansson to erect a government station in the Arctic. Herschel Island would be 2,000 miles from the nearest station, and small ships have ranges around 100 miles. Port Nelson has proven effective, with Esquimault to Honolulu and even Pacific to Japan contact. Plans include three more stations in Hudson Bay and Straits, with a trans Atlantic Polson system likely next summer.
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Fir
Port Nelson
Department of the Paral Service
Canada
Stefannson
Arctic
Stefanumson
Herschel Island
Karluk
Department
Pas
Pacific
Esquimault
Honolulu
Japan
Port Arthur
Atlantic
Hudson Bay
Straits
Mancel Island
Hudson Straits
Ash Inlet
Button Islands
Old British Warships Sold by Auction
Four superannuated British war ships were sold by auction to the highest bidder. The Renown, famed as a training ship and once the fastest ironclad, realized £39,000. Other vessels sold included the Resolution £35,650 Forte £18,500 and Medea £10,375. Scylla failed to meet reserve with a top bid of £11,800.
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Portsmouth
Mediterranean
Fisher
Lord Fisher
India
Resolution
Vulgar Habit of Smoking in Public Through Time
A compact reminiscence notes how public smoking grew popular while earlier figures like Mr Gladstone and Frederic Harrison disliked or avoided it. It recalls Gladstone’s rare one cigarette hosting King Edward, then the Prince of Wales, illustrating evolving social norms toward smoking in public spaces.
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Mr. Gladstone
Edward
Prince of Wales
Frederic Harrison
T.P
Museum of Peace plans 25 million New York exposition
A New York association discussed erecting a 25 million dollar group of buildings for a peace arts exposition. The plan aims to establish permanent memorials of the century of peace following the 1814 Ghent treaty. Directors include Jacob H. Schiff Elbert H. Gary Robert E. Peary Melville E. Stone and Theodore N. Vail.
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New York
New York City
Association For
Ghent
Jacob H. Schiff
Elbert H. Gary
Robert E. Peary
Melville E. Stone
Theodore N. Vail
Fishing claim grows from 1887 Canadian seizure
Old fishing claim seeking up to 50000 dollars arose from the 1887 seizure by Canada of Gloucester schooners Argo naut and Jonas H. French and their seines. Hearings were held in Washington before the British American pecuniary claims commission. The dispute centered on whether the boats stayed inside the three mile limit off Nova Scotia or drifted beyond.
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Canada
Gloucester
Argonaut
Jonas H. French
Washington
Pecuniary Claims Commission
Nova Scotia
Homestead map edition aids Manitoba prairie land view
The twelfth Homestead map for Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta is being prepared by Ottawa’s Department of Interior railway lands branch. The maps show land entries and quarter section status as of January 1 1914 with colors illustrating availability. Manitoba sheet soon available free distribution while Saskatchewan and Alberta sheets follow. contact details for copies are given.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewah
F. C. C. Lynch
Department of the Interior
Missionary Hero Bishop Stringer of the Yukon
Bishop Stringer, a noted Church of England figure in Canada, led Arctic missions on Herschel Island with his wife and their son Herschel. After Bishop Bompas’s death in 1906 he succeeded him, serving across a 200000 square mile Yukon diocese from Dawson to Carcross, overseeing a major government school for Indian children and preaching to whites and Indians alike.
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Bishop Stringer
Yukon
Church of England
Canada
Herschel Island
Arctic Ocean
Stringer
Herschel
Bompas
White Horse
Dawson
Carcross
Charing Cross Busy Depot With Four Rail Lines
The rebuilt Charing Cross station in London is praised as the world’s busiest traffic hub. Four rail systems run one above another, with Bakerloo at bottom and Southeastern and Chatham at top, handling an estimated 15 million passengers yearly across 26 lines and routes.
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Charing Cross
London
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Bakerloo
Hampstead
District Railway
Southeastern
Chatham
Trafic
Charing Cross Station
Maderick
London Electric Railways
Woman Engineer Barred by Saskatchewan Law
Mrs Victor Garnist, a twenty year licensed Minnesota engineer, applied to Regina to obtain a license to run her husband’s traction engine but was refused because Saskatchewan law limits engineers to males over 18. She argues many women in the province could become engineers if allowed.
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Victor Garnist
Minnesota
Regina
Saskatchewan
Emigration push to lure British women to Canada
The British Women's Emigration association held its annual meeting in London urging British women to move to Canada as the bishop of Yukon notes a large male surplus there. The group promotes educated, adaptable women for roles as servants teachers and nurses under matron care with hostels in London and British Columbia.
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Yukon
Canada
United States
British Women’s Emigration Association
Madsson House
London
British i
Columbia
Dominions
Regina City Plans Horse Breeding Operation
Regina will expand from oats for horses to full live stock farming. The city owns about 100 horses used by fire department street cleaning and health department. City commissioners propose feeding 400 acres to oats this year with 300 acres threshed in fall and the rest fed as green sheaves. A future plan includes larger scale farming and a dedicated manager. Horses will be bred raised and fed with all kinds of feed produced.
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Regina
Inca Mummy Brought by Taylor to Halifax Exhibit
Has Ancient Inca mummy T G Taylor of Halifax and Chili brought a 2000 year old figure from Chile where he supervised a railroad cut. The squatting, under foot tall mummy will be loaned to the Provincial Museum at Halifax. Museum official notes Inca art of reducing body size after death. Remaining skeletons found during construction measure about eighteen inches high.
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T. G. Taylor
Halifax
Chili
Taylor
Antifagasta
Chill
British Columbia halibut exports trial shipments reach Britain
J E B Ray Canadian trade commissioner in Birmingham reports two months ago Grimsby imported frozen halibut from British Columbia. He notes a general impression that trial shipments will be imported by fish merchants in large consuming centres and several Birmingham firms wish to correspond with reliable exporters to arrange further deals.
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Britain
J. EB. Ray
Birmingham
British Columbia
Grimsby
Mr. Ray
Chinese egg shipments spark trans-Pacific trade bid
After China egg shipments increased, attention turned to trade growth. The Canadian Pacific Railway and Royal Mail Steam Packet have been bringing large consignments from China, prompting talk of CP adding refrigeration equipment on its trans-Pacific liners to win the business.
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China
Canadian Pacific Railway
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Canadian Pacific Ig
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Romance OF the Riders OF the Plains
Dicking
BIG Oil Search
Canadian Aviation
Albert
Department OF Naval Service
Stefansson
Museum OF Peace
New London
G. L. Bevar
Page Croft
Pern
B.C
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