Week
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contributor: W. Blakemore
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1912-03-02
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note: Iwallace&clarke \Brokers and Financial Agents ^^J Real Estate, B. C. Lands [ Timber, Coal and Iron felephone 471 620 Yattt Street :- Victoria, B.C. The A British Colombia Newspaper and Review. Pablishtd at Victoria, B. C. HALL Sf WALKER Agents Wellington Colliery Company's Coal 1232 Gov't St. Telephone 83 /ol. 10. No. 9. Tenth Year THE WEEK, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912 Tenth Year One Dollar Per Annum VICTORIA'S DAY—It is natural that there should be some criticism of the McBride Railway Policy. Assured- Jit is not perfect, but such criticism as emanated from the political opponents he Government has only tended to em- size its general excellence. Fault may found not so much with what is pro- :d as with what is omitted. There are critics who do not endorse the con- ction of every mile of railway con- ted for. The fault found is that there still gaps to be filled in and districts e reached which some pessimists pro- ] to believe are being sidetracked. And most wonderful of all, there are in |oria some "knockers" who argue that ^ouver is getting all the best of the ; that the new construction contracted an Vancouver Island is only a sop to the Island quiet; that it leads to no- fe, and does not ensure the completion railway system which would link up J connect our lines with the mainland [with the transcontinental systems there- This kind of talk has been heard at I street corners ever since the details of Policy were announced. The masterly Dsition of the Premier, delivered at the |ual meeting of the Victoria Conserva- Association on Thursday night, and Ipnted on the last page of the current e, is a complete and irrefutable answer ilich critics. Mr. McBride shows, first ill, that when his Railway Policy was mated two years ago it contemplated ries of steps which would be taken one me until the whole was completed. The step of six hundred miles of C. N. R. fctruction was a considerable instalment, second step now announced is a prompt logical sequence. It fits in naturally…
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: 10.14288/1.0344458
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