Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-03-03
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper aad Review Vol. XIV, No. 38—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, March 3rd, 1917 5c. a copy $2.00 a year The First Liberal Parliament THE flrst Liberal Parliament of British Columbia was opened on Thursday with the usual ceremony. The chief interest of the occasion centered in-the Address from the Throne, which was far lengthier and more detailed than usual. It foreshadows an Electoral Bill, which is expected to enable women to exercise the suffrage without delay. It provides for a Provincial memorial to the gallant men of British Columbia who may sacrifice their lives in the present War, the same to be erected on the old Court House site in the City of Vancouver, not in the capital. It promises legislation to develop agriculture and some aid to the Mining Industry. It prepares the Public for an abandonment of Government Aid to the Shipping Industry. It promises to place the Civil Service on a more satisfactory basis, presumably for the "purpose of abolishing patronage, although that plank of the Liberal Platform, the most prominent in the Electoral campaign is not specifically mentioned in the Address. The Address concludes with a rather florid paragraph in which it is stated that "Both the moral tenets and the material economy of the whole world are in process of rapid evolution. In the face of seeming contradictions emerging from the world-embracing conflict of established convictions and practices, the all-surviving principle of human brotherhood revives and takes on new form and fresh vitality." Probably the exact meaning of this rather complicated passage will be made clear in the Eeply to the Address. There is on every hand a disposition to give the Brewster administration a fair field and no favour and the time to tell how closely it follows the lines of its pre-election pledges will be when the details of the proposed Legislation are known. The Passing of the Jitney THE severe weather of the last few weeks has finally admi…
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: 10.14288/1.0374072
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