Prince Rupert Journal
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issued: 2016-04-07
issued: 1911-06-06
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note: Wtt-m • - . /k M New Wellington Coal is the best ROGERS & BUCK Sole Agents Ptinu Mnpttt J WM219U ;"jeb Printing in all Lines VOLUME 1 Published Twice a Week. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1911. Price, Five Cents. No. 10t> CAPITAL TO DEVELOP ELECTRIC POWER HERE Proposition Whereby Outside Interests Organize Supply This City Shows That Men Prominent In Western Canada Company are Deeply Interested. to It is evident that the controlling interests in the Western Canada Power Company are about to turn their attention to Prince Rupert as a field for investment. The Western Power Company is financially a very strong organization, controlling the Stave Lake power proposition neat- Vancouver. Organized some years ago with John Hendry at its head, the control has since passed into the bancs of other financiers. For years the work of developing power on a gigantic scale has been In progress with the view of supplying the neesvs of Vancouver and adjacent territory. The British Columbia Electric Company in Vancouver it is expected will buy power in quantity from this corporation. E. Brutlnel, who Is so prominently identified with the Tsimpsean Company, has now interested the Western Canada Power Company or at least a number of the capitalists identified with that corporation in a proposition looking to developing power for Prince Rupert. Enormous Capita] Fuller details of the proposition now available, indicate the extent to which the scheme is to be carried out. It means that capital to an enormous amount has been provided for the work here, looking to the meeting of tbe demands of a great industrial centre. It will be remembered that when Mr. Brutlnel last visited here it was in company with General Manager Hayward, of the Western Canada Power Company. It is significant that the control in the new company that is to develop power here is Montreal capital, the headquarters of the company being in the same city as the head offices of the Grand Trunk Pacific, so that the f…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Prince Rupert (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0395279
language: English
lat: 54.312778
long: -130.325278
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Prince Rupert, B.C. : O. H. Nelson
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text