Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1912-02-24
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note: Mona Cafe J. J. BRADFORD,T_Yofri««r Home Cooking at ReasonablePrices Try Hokartized Electric Cut Coffee JO cents Ib. 1307 Broad St. The Week A British eolnmbia Newspaper and Review* Rrtllshtd at Victoria, B. 6. HALL If WALKER Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coal 1232 Gov't St. Telephone 83 Vol. 10. No. 8 Tenth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912 Tenth Year . One Dollar Per Annum 1 VHE RAILWAY POLICY —The Railway Policy of Premier McBride is dealt with at considerable ength elsewhere in this issue. It is only ■Jecessary therefore in commenting upon it emphasize one or two of its salient fea- jres. The first of these is, that the Pro- Iincial Government has completed its first •ansaction in railway construction with the r. T. P. who will utilize the Howe Sound id Fort George Railway for direct com- Iunication with Vancouver. This excellent rangemeht is due largely to the fairness id ability of Mr. D'Arcy Tate, the G. T. P. licitor, and should be the foreruner of any other satisfactory agreements. Fort Iaorge will now become one of the great ntral cities of British Columbia, where thin less than two years two transcon- tental railways will converge. Indeed, art George will ultimately be the metro- J)lis of Northern B. C. The railway now Infracted for is but an instalment of a eace River country railway, and no one |tn tell what the effect of giving easy access that great agricultural section of the Irovince will mean. The second outstand- lg feature of the Railway Policy is the lort cut from the Kootenay and Boundary Duntries to the Coast and the substitution |f the Crow's Nest and Kettle Valley lines .r the Rocky Mountain section of the C. R. as the direct route to Vancouver and' ictoria. This would have been accom- lished ten years ago but for the folly of ie Dominion Government in allowing the reat Northern to obtain control of the -V. & E. charter. But better late than ilever, and there is no doubt that the commercial development clue to the linking up …
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: 10.14288/1.0344227
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