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I A Canadian Press flashback Western Manitoba's Own Daily Newspaper BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1964 I JAMES NELSON OJ) lu, f'ai an a nm A 140 OTTAWA hundred years ago this month--slightly more'th'an Uiree years before Confederation Canada didn't its western to be. Some wauled it just west' of the others in the foot- mils of- the Rockies, and the ambitious wanted it to extend clear to the Pacific Coast; There were conflicting claims to the vast reaches between the Great Lakes and the Pacific. Most of the land was left to the buffalo and the Indians--and a few hardy settlers. With Iheir minds already set on some form 'of union with the Atlantic provinces, the united provinces of Canada East and Canada West--now Quebec and Ontario --began to covet the lands held by the Hudson's Bay Company. In the spring of 1864, this appeared in the throne speech opening the new legislative ses- sion in the old Canadian capital al Quebec City: "The condition of the vast region lying on the northwest of the settled portions of the province is daily becoming a question of great interest.

"A definition 61 boundary is a desirable preliminary to further proceedings with respect to the vnst tracts of land in that quarter belonging to Canada, but not yet brought under the action of our political and municipal system." In the debate that followed, AVilliam MeDougall, commissioner of Crown lanifs, said the first thing to be done was to determine whether the Red River territory, where the Selkirk settlers -had made their start at colonization in 1812, belonged "to Canada or to some other country." Five years later MeDougall became lieutenant-governor of Rupert's Land and the new Northwest Territories. The first move towards civil government of the Canadian West was made in 1853 when the British government decided to make Vancouver Island a Crown colony and in 1859 when it revoked the Hudson's Bay Company licence to exclusive trade in British Columbia, As far as the interior 'prairie lands' were concerned, the British government was prepared to extend the company's licence for another 21 years, offered to have the Privy Council arbitrate the conflicting claims of Canada and the company to the border. But pressures were mounting in Canada for jurisdiction over the West. In 1856, the president of the Executive Council and agriculture i i in the Tache Macdonald government --who glorified hi the name of Philip Michael Matthew Scott Vankoughnet said Canada should press for its western boundary on the Pacific Ocean. With the establishment of the new Crown Colony on the West Coast, Canada proposed that a direct line of communication "by railway or otherwise" be established through the Red Jliver and Saskatchewan tcrri- lories to the Freser Kiver and Vancouver I a Canada asked the Hudson's Bay Company, for road and telegraph rights through the territory.

The request wasn't 'happily received. "The Rel River and Saskatchewan 'valleys, though' hot in themselves fur-bearing districts, are the-sources from whence tlie main supplies of winter food are procured for the northern posts from the produce o'f the buffalo said Alexander Grant Dallas, the resident governor of the company for Rupert's "A a i of settlements through valleys would not only deprive the company of the above vital resources but would indirectly, in many other ways, so interfere with their northern trade as to render it no longer worth prosecuting on a.n ox- tended scale." In the meantime, Capt. John Paliiser had been sent out to explore the prairies and foothills and to assess their worth for the British government. While passages of his reports spoke glowingly of the abundance of fish, rich pastures of natural hay, arnpie timber, and areas readily available for settlement in the Red, Assiniboine and North Saskatchewan river valleys, the report was not encouraging. "There would be no immediate advantage commensurate with the required of capital" in building a transpor-, tation thoroughfare across the country, he said.

"The knowledge of the country on thg whole would never lead me to advocate a line of communication from Canada across the continent to the exclusively through British territory. "The time now has far gone News Publisher Wins Monopoly Charge Case OTTAWA (CP)-The restric-, ted in September, 1962, to the I Scene, and in any event this live trade practices commission commission by D. H. W. Henry, was i by James fiirppfor nf nrifl v-n ni.nni.«,.

has cleared a subsidiary of Thomson Newspapers Limited of a formal allegation that it drove a weekly newspaper out of business in Sudbury through illegal monopolistic practices. director of investigation and research under the Combines Investigation Act. Says the commission's report, in part: "In our opinion, it is doubtful editor. In addition, the said it was never in the commission's, that the Sudbury Sun would have maHp j-n? i--LI -n i report, made public Tuesday by Justice Minister Favreau, was the 11-month career in 1962 of a labor-orientated weekly, the Sudbury published by Northland Publishers Limited. It was unprofitable from the start and stopped publication in November, 1962.

The Sudbury Sun started operations about the same time as the'Sudbury" Scene, a maga- fared much better without the competition of the Sudbury Scene. It is very unlikely that its paid circulation would have been higher, for the two weeklies were not aimed at the same clientele "However, the Sudbury Scene was to some extent able to attract advertising which otherwise might have gone to the Sun. Without being a zine type weekly directed decisive factor, this competition mainly at women- readers and hoH hy Sault to Sudbury Press i i a Thomson Newspapers subsidiary which also publishes the daily Sudbury Star. the Meakes, the Star's managing commission established that the Sudbury Scene was launched only to cause the Sudbury's Sun's downfall. Perhaps the news about the launching of The Sun had hastened The Scene's appearance, "but.

can we blame anyone who has decided to launch a new business for choosing to do so at the most propitious moment?" And it was not shown that the Sudbury Scene operated at a loss for the purpose of eliminating the rival Sun, the commission, said. Free distribution was often the best way for a advertising probably has-! new periodical to recruit read- tened the disappearance of thejers and get maximum advertis- by for affecting such an object and the unfortunate choice of an astronomical boundary line 'the 49th parallel, established bv treaty with the United States in 1849) has completely isolated the central American possessions of Great Britain from Canada in the east, and also almost debarred them from any eligible from the toast on the west." But the reluctance of the Hudson's Bay Company to have its hunting grounds corrupted by settlement and the discouragement voiced by Paliiser did not daunt Edward Watkin, a British railwayman who already had become interested in linking the Atlantic provinces with Canada by rail. He saw the potentials of telegraph and transport links between Canada and the far west. Watkin negotiated the transfer of Hudson's Bay Company land to the Crown, and reconstructed the company into a new one plans for colonization and development. His was the At- lantic and Pacific Transit and Telegraph Company, and later he claimed a share of credit for Confederation itself.

It was then that the provincial government of Canada ba- gan to move. It couldn't help Watkin with finances out of its own limited treasury, and it was qualmish about the boundary sn-d territorial jurisdiction Jems involved. So, 100 years ago this month, an official appeal was on its way to London from Canada seeking "some speedy, inexpensive and mutually satisfactory plan" to settle the western border question. In 1369, five years later and two years after Confederation, Canada acquired the land for and large land grants deeded back to the company, thus freeing it as historia'ii George M. Wrong has the burden of governing a region where turbulent forces were soon to cause rebellion." latter." ing revenues.

Souve Wanfs Independent Ministry deoai'Ltisnt nf fnrpctrv I. research and market-'ketirig of forest oroducLs department of forestry and! There had been no firm state rural development' is going to operate as an independent unit free of agriculture department Forestry Minister Maurice Sauve indicated today. Mr. Sauve, scheduled to a over the new portfolio when it is created, described it as "an autonomous new department which would have either one or two deputy ministers, one for ment however, on whether the in are be der the wing of. the agriculture minister or as an independent 1 The remarks were contained on I in a text of to the unit.

Speaking to the annual ing of the British Columbia! Lumber Manufacturers' Association, Mr. Sauve reaffirmed lhat his new portfolio will include direction of the Agricul- 1 Vlii VJ- UlC "Kl torestryjmd other for rural tural Rehabilitation and Devel- Act (ARDA), the Mari- MAURICE SAUVE nc strings Coins In Circulation January WASHINGTON (AP Mil- development." He listed some of the responsibilities to be taken over by the department and said they were "activities which were formerly the direct responsibility of the minister of agriculture." Plans to set up the new department were announced in by It Prime Minister At this, point, the commission ACCEPTS WORD lions of half-dollars bearing the 1 government's previous plan to likeness of John F. Kennedy, went )lave two ministers of agricul- nto pirpulatinn Tnpcrlov "iKrniini, I 7 nut pwu.iv, niv 15 WORD i. 1 said the competition between he accepted- the- tte treasury in Washington -and the two weeklies was in word of Sault to SlK Vr banks weekly newspaper formal on news-stands at 10 cents copy, though some free distributions were made. It had a maximum advertising rate of 17 cents a line.

The Scene, on the other hand, was "distributed free of Sault to Sudbnry Press sd that the Sudbury Scene was "conceived as a profitable business" and enabled the company to make better, more efficient use of its staff and equipment. Even in its first or commodity. until July, 1963, when it began! DOESN'T SHOW PRACTICES paid distribution. Its top adver- "Leaving this purely legal tising rate was 12 cents a line question aside, the evidence paid distribution. Its top advertising rate was 12 cents a line but' in most cases the charge was nine cents.

MADE ALLEGATION After complaints were made to the justice department, a formal allegation that Sault to Sudbury Press Limited was using establishment of another ing was a service, not a commodity. Therefore there was some doubt whether the act would apply in such a case because the act defines monop- clll veu lts 1 Ll an arhde The Scene had made a contribution to the company's plant overhead expenses. "For all these reasons, the commission concludes that the Sault to Sudbury Press Limited must not be held responsible for the disappearance of the weekly Sudbury Sun," the commission concludes. Mr. Favreau made no comment in releasing the report, other than to state that "the usual consideration would be given the question of what fur- jther steps ought to be taken." ianks across the United States.

Twenty-six million of the new dollars already are available for distribution and about! 65,000,000 more will be circu-f swept across streets, sidewalks lated before the end ot the anci Jav here today -as fire- Unless Congress changes the i a hulside residents i fought in pouring ram to save aw the mint witt turn them out threatened home! and cars. for 25 years or longer. does not demonstrate that the Sault to Sudbury Press-Limited did have resource to rep.vehen- sible monopolistic practices." The commission noted that Henry never alleged that Sault to Sudbury Press ever a monopoly position to prevent I tried to force customers who paper in the area was submit- to advertise also in the Sudbury' wanted to. advertise in The Star rpt, A "vincii in me vjjeuuaie area me sir The 50-cent piece wul replace warned motorists Sundav night i fireman, he Benjamm Franklin half-dol-jto avoid areas where a series' mmte from A ril W48; major brush fires denuded HAM SHOOT THURSDAY, MARCH 26th GAMES BEGIN 7:30 P.M. PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM? Read Ann Landers ON PAGE 18 nto circulation Tuesday through time Marshland Rehabilitation Act and the program for freight assistance and storage costs on, western feed grains shipped to eastern Canada and British Jumbia.

The rookie Quebec who joined the cabinet Feb. 3, also assured his audience thatj federal forestry programs will not be subdued by the expan-: sion of his portfolio. TrOUDieS In LOS LOS ANGELES (AP)--Rivers cars were having trouble stay' 1 brown mud topped with i ing mud-slick roads. from recent brusn fires, 1 "It's like trying to drive a car oh a slippery dance floor," they said. "Mud is coming down one street, going through the houses and moving parked cars "down the street," said a Glendale Firemen in the Glendale area til the end of last year.

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