The Prospector
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-06-27
issued: 1912-04-27
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note: T.ll.rnry r,e&. Asscm. Sept. 5.-13. For Perfect DIAMONDS You Should See WILSON THI! JKWici.t'.u f0$pt£\0t. -ll? Newspaper ' in the /i Kooten^sr "Prospector" $2.00 Per Year VOL. 18 UKANBROOK, B.C , SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 27th 1912 No: 17 Cranbrook-'The Star City of the Kootenays' Winning Slogan in Our Recent Contest In another part of this issue can be seen some of the other titles given to Cranbrook All are agreed that Cranbrook has a big future, and that it's influence will be felt in the Development of the District "Other Towns their Horns are Blowing, We have blown no horn — But Still We're Growing" Panama Canal and B. C. The Kootenays as a Pleasure Resort "The Panama Cnnal means more to British Columbia than any oth-;r part of tbe Pacific coast. "I tbink tbat tbe chain of lakes you have here in the Kootenay are destined to take the place of Switzerland with the American travelling public. You have all that they have in Switzerland, and you have it on n thousand times larger scale. "Your province is just being born— and it is being born very rapidly. Your resources of the interior are ho varied tbat it seems to me that you ought to bnve a section most surely destined to a perpetual prosperity." In these three statements W. H, Hatawny, a Ban Francisco financier, wbo in here in connection with some legal business, last nidi* expressed his opinion of British Columbia, which he has visited frequently during the past ten years and in which he has large interests. Mr. Hatha- wny, , is a member of the Flying Legion, nn organization of prominent business men in the Golden Gate City, which will this summer visit Hritisb Columbia, and is a leading memoer of the executive of the great World's fair which m ii'.' will mark Han Franciecoe's celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. FIFTY MILLIONAIRES COMING The Flying Legion, for whose visit to this province this snmmer Mr. Hathaway hns heen making arrange roents at Victoria and Vancouver, ls made up of prominent busine…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cranbrook (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0083075
language: English
lat: 49.5080556
long: -115.746944
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cranbrook, B.C. : A.B. Grace
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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