Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1910-09-10
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note: Kji imaa mm 'flesh and White—50c Ior Theatres, Balls and Parties Terry's Drug Store Fort anh Doughs The WeeL ^\. Legislative fl British Columbia Review, Published at Victoria, B. 6. si HALL & WALKER Agents WELLINGTON COLLIERY COMPANY'S COAL |32 Government St. Telephone 83 rOL. VII. NO THE WEEK, SATUEDAT, SEPTEMBER 10, 1910 qOnb^ollae Pee Annum IE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC IMr. Smitliers, Mr. C. M. Hays, and fr large attendant party, have visited ftoria, Prince Rupert and the Western of the Skeena river, and have gone lit, and it is not an unfair paraphrase of J situation to say that they have "shaken I dust from off their feet as a testimony" linst the Government of British Colum- j and all its Avorks. A close student of |T. P. affairs must realize that a crisis heen reached, and to understand the |is thoroughly it is necessary to go back years, to the time Avhen Mr. C. W. Irse told Premier McBride that unless [got a land grant for building across Itish Columbia, he would build when it led him and not before. Mr. McBride him to go to OttaAva. He went, his shadow has never since darkened |doors of the Government offices in Vic- la. He Avas succeeded by a much wiser shrewder man in Mr. William Wain- »ht, who abandoned the autocratic posi- assumed by Mr. Morse and found Mr. McBride was reasonable, intent ■ on protecting the interests of the Pro- he. Consequently, Mr. Wainwright nothing about a land grant, and noth- about a modification of the clause Ich prohibits the employment of bntal labour. He confined himself to [discussion of important detail business |3ting wharves, terminals and transport- In facilities, and Avith the able assist- |) of Mr. D'Arcy Tate, the Company's Mor, Avas able to carry all his negotia- [8 to a successful issue. But still the lie of actually constructing the G. T. P. Ilritish Columbia made little or no pro- Is. After six years the Company has I constructed 50 iniles of railway, ami Smitjiers and Mr. Hays have left Itoria with the definite stateme…
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: 10.14288/1.0344192
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