The Princeton Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Pilkington, L.
issued: 2022-07-12
issued: 1921-02-11
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note: HH|P b===^i ?SH? THE PRINCETON ^Twenty-second Year—No. 12 PRINCETON, B C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY JJ, I92J. PER YBAR : Sa.50 Cash Single Copy 5c. Hope=Princeton Route Has Been Selected Is The Statement of Unofficial |lj|i| Report Coming From Vancouver A report from Vancouver states: It has now been practically decided that the Hope-Princeton route will be selected by the Provincial Government as. the path to be followed by the proposed Trans-Provincial Highway. Announcement to this effect is expected at the forthcoming session of tihe Legislature, probably in connection with an appropriation in the estimates for a start on the work. Thus ends a controversy which is almost as old as British Columbia. Owing to the series of mountain ranges which divide the Province into valleys the road system of the Coast and the interior are not com nected. Not only automobile tour- i its, but the various branches of industry in the Province have long felt this to be a handicap and there has been a persistent agitation for the Government to build the connecting links necessary to bring the various parts of the Province into road connection. By far the most important of the missing links is that; between the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan or #ry belt. Two routes have been urged with great force, one following the old Cariboo trail through tae Fraser Canyon, a route now appropriated by the Canadian National Railway, the other following the equally tortuous course of the Kettle Valley Railway from Hope to Princeton. The advocates of each route have been the residents of the districts which would be served. Good Roads Associations and other bodies interested in the problem in the ab.v.ract have contented themselves with pressing the principle of a road and letting the Government take the responsibility of deciding which of the alternative routes it should follow. So rstrenuous has been the agitation from both quarters that the Government has had much difficulty in reaching a decision. Hon. Dr…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1929-12-26). Damaged edges
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton, B.C.
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0416210
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
type: Text