http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373710
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1913-12-13
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note: TheWeek A British Columbia Newspaper and Review. •^ol. XI, No. 42--Eleventh Year b Victoria, B.C., Canada, Dec. 13, 1913 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year fl Land Policy for British Columbia N November 19th, 1910, the writer of this article submitted a resolution to thc Conservative Convention at Nelson which carried unanimously. The preamble and resolution was as Hows:— "Whereas the development of the agricultural industry of the Province not keeping pace with lhe increase of population and the growth of other iduslries, and ♦ "Whereas the permanent prosperity of any country depends upon the kllivnlion of lhe soil, and the local production of lhc necessaries of ,jfc, and * "Whereas llie present tendency in British Columbia is to Hock to the 'ties, which may in the near future present a serious problem, as affecting ■ie cost of living1 and the providing of cheap food for Ihe people: "Bo it resolved that the time lias arrived when it is desirable to take ome steps to assure the placing of a larger number of permanent settlers ,'pon tbe land, and the Government is requested to lake this mntter under ; serious consideration and to undertake the work of colonization with people of our own race." KEPT IN THE BACKGROUND •!■' During the three years that have intervened many things have ■ ;iened and public attention has been engrossed with the bringing . railways, the construction of breakwaters, docks and piers and lie prosecution of other public works which have so contributed to the b-velopment of British Columbia that the urgency of tlio matter dealt vith in these resolutions has been less insistent. In spite, however, f-1' other distractions it has never receded far into the background, Itud there has not been a month in these three years in which the tjulic press has not, either in its correspondence or editorial columns, , diced the demand for more land cultivation. It is probably true to lay that there has not been a month in which the Government has not fciied thn «1i"..*l»…
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