1908 in Canada

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1908
in
Canada

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Events from the year 1908 in Canada.

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Historical documents[edit]

Mackenzie King and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt discuss Japanese immigration[2]

To get people from "countries whose climatic conditions promise a suitable class of settlers," Canada pays bonuses to agents[3]

Testimonials for service Salvation Army provides for immigrants to Canada[4]

Lecturer describes largely American and mostly male immigration to Canada[5]

Cabinet doubles spending-money amount required of jobless, hostless immigrants[6]

Visiting agricultural tour reports on Canadian wages and cost of living[7]

Visiting agriculturalist thinks Maritimes agriculture has much unmet potential[8]

Visiting agriculturalist says Quebec's new Macdonald College will shake up "the worst farmers in Canada"[9]

Visiting agriculturalist finds splendid fruit-growing potential in BC's Kootenay and Okanagan valleys[10]

Government horticulturist W.T. Macoun advocates growing stands of trees on farms despite older farmers' antipathy toward them[11]

Speaker celebrates Quebec City tercentenary, praising founders and their spirit[12]

Brandon College principal supports right to separate religious university education[13]

Fort McMurray fur trader introduces visitors to her Indigenous friends [14]

Alberta rustlers convicted, one for rustling and one for perjury (Note: anti-Mormon comments)[15]

Edmonton Board of Trade's guide to road and pack trail route to Finlay River, B.C.[16]

Midwife blows cayenne pepper into woman's nose to induce sneezing and quick delivery of baby [17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
  2. ^ Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1908 (January 25), pgs. 6-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
  3. ^ "Canadian Immigration" (April 29, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 323-4. Accessed 12 October 2020
  4. ^ "Appendix II; Voices from the West" The Surplus (1909), pgs. 80-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
  5. ^ L.P. Gravel, Canada; Its History; Its Resources; Its Development (1908), pgs. 21-3. Accessed 11 February 2020
  6. ^ Order in Council (September 11, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
  7. ^ "Cost of Living" Report of the Scottish Commission on Agriculture to Canada (1908), pgs. 179-86. Accessed 11 February 2020
  8. ^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; The Maritime Provinces" Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 11 February 2020
  9. ^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; Quebec and Ontario," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pg. 20. Accessed 11 February 2020
  10. ^ R.B. Greig, "Agriculture in Canada; British Columbia," Canada as It Appeared to Scotch Agriculturalists, pgs. 23-4. Accessed 11 February 2020
  11. ^ "Growing of Forest Trees in Plantations[....]" (May 7, 1908), Report of the [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization[...]1907-8, pgs. 281-2. Accessed 12 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1004_1_1/305?r=0&s=1 (scroll down to Experiments with Forest Trees)
  12. ^ Adélard Turgeon, The Tercentenary of Quebec (July 29, 1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
  13. ^ Archibald P. McDiarmid, The Right and Expediency of Independence in University Education (1908). Accessed 11 February 2020
  14. ^ Agnes Deans Cameron, The New North; Being Some Account of a Woman's Journey through Canada to the Arctic (1909), pgs. 84-7. Accessed 11 February 2020
  15. ^ R. Burton Deane, Mounted Police Life in Canada; A Record of Thirty-one Years' Service (1916), pgs. 292-8. Accessed 11 February 2020
  16. ^ Report of(...)the Edmonton Board of Trade on the Transportation Facilities(...)to the Peace, Finlay, and MacKenzie River Basins (June 29, 1908; unpaginated). Accessed 11 February 2020
  17. ^ Wilfred Abram Bigelow, Forceps, Fin & Feather: The Memoirs of Dr. W.A. Bigelow (1970), pg. 52 (quoted in Whitney L. Wood, Birth Pangs: Maternity, Medicine, and Feminine Delicacy in English Canada, 1867-1950 pgs. 81-2). Accessed 25 January 2020