Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1910-11-05
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note: DYKE'S LILLy BLOOM I Flesh and White—50c for Theatres, Balls and Parties fTerry's Drug Store Fokt and Douglas The A British Columbia Review, Published at Vietoria, B. 6. In to'dy'yp Ass, ^7 !9io VIII. ^o.39 ) THE WEEK, SATURDAY NOVEMBEE 5, 1910 HALL & WALKER Agents WELLIN6T0N COLLIERY COMPANY'S COAL Government St Telephone SS ne Dollar Pkh Annum PROBLEM ish Columbia is growing at a rate I is astonishing all close observers, i growth is not entirely satisfactory. a 'homely illustration, it is like the of a boy whose head is too big for lly. To-day one-half the white pop- c;i thi! Province is in Vancouver to-third of the remainder is in Vic- 1f the other towns of the Provide taken into acconut it will be I that n very inconsiderable popula- left for thc purely country dis- Iluring the past year probably not ban 20,000 persons have been add- he population of the towns and cit- lis doubtful if 1,000 have been add- |'lie strictly agricultural population. an unhealthy condition of affairs, |may not occasion much i neon ven i- long 'lis building operations, maiming industries and other occupations ■ cities are able to assimilate the in- numbers, but the moment there is k in general activity and prosperity such cheeks are inevitable—the lu of providing for, and even feed- 1 surplus population of the cities ■iconic a serious problem, rendered Imoiv serious because the cost of liv- Isii hisb. Iliad a taste of this In the* fall of Ivbei] the financial panic paralysed llustries of the Slates and tempor- Ifi'ecrei! our owu. At tbat time tliere cveral thousand men parading the of Vancouver iu search of work lough the condition was less acute li Eastern cities, it none tbe less ob- t is easy to realise how much Iniattcrs will be in the future dur- I'l'iods of industrial depression, be- here will be so many more idle [to provide for. In Victoria the dif- was not so great, although it will lioinberod that during tbe winter of |)S, special work had to be provided • civic authorities …
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: 10.14288/1.0344118
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : ""The Week"" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text