Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1907-04-06
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note: \ Kingston! Smith & Co. jj E Stock and General AUCTIONEERS Commission and Real Estate Agents. 860 Granville, Vancouver. i^ojtojupjuiULJUJUU'UUUUUUU^ The Week A British Columbia Review, Published at Victoria and Vancouver B. 6. Stewart Williams R. C. Janion WILLIAMS & JANION AUCTIONEERS COMMISSION AMD REAL ESTATE A6ENTS S< FOBT ST. VICTORIA, I. C. ,jUUUaJuloj^.o(JUJUUUUULa.'c IVOL. IV. No. IO THE WEEK, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1907 One Dollar Per Annum The Editor's Review Of Current Topics. After hearing the splen- Ihe Hour did address of Commis- JAnd the Man. sioner Coombes at the Canadian Club luncheon |m Wednesday last, one could hardly fail io realize that in a very important respect lie is the man of the hour. Britisli Colombia is confronted with a difficult problem ; she needs population and she needs pour. The Commissioner hit the nail on he head Avhen he said that the Province (night possess a perfect climate, magnificent resources and unsurpassed attractions, but.what it needed was people. For [fty years the Government of this Pro- ince has been attempting to attract people, ;nd in spite of the splendid progress of ,ie last ten years, can hardly be said to ,'ave succeeded. A Province containing loughly one million square miles which [an only boast of a population of 250,000, r one to every four miles, after half a jentury of Colonization, can hardly be laid to have succeeded. Indeed it is little jhort of marvellous that with so sparse population such remarkable develop- lents of natural resources should have ieen effected. It would not have been [urprising if the burdens of taxation and nancial burdens generally imposed by lis work of development had proved to le heavier than could be borne. But, as 'remier McBride very sapiently remarked, that which had done in the past i-ould not do in the future. Conditions ad altered, the Province had launched pon a gigantic scale of development, and mid not go ahead without more men, men colonize, men to labour for those who …
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0344064
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text