The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 26 Feb 1926, p. 1

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Frid a y, Faeb. 2 6t h: 4 R . Keefer Seeks to Revise _ « | Niagara Power I reaty To Meet Ontario'sNeed o|VieecLl Un i 5"1 F. n.q}ieeter (Port Arthur), Legis--| + 'lative Secretary for Northern On--| Member _for Porl Arlhur tario, resuming the debate, contin-- | ied with the speech which he had DCCIGI'CS Power Re- begun on Tuesday. He eulogized | %on. Charles McCrea, Minister of| f Mines, whom he thought the people sources Of Onlarlo Are of Northern Ontario regarded "al-- | most affectionately," and as "a Almosl al an Efld, and straight, square shooter.'" He felt c + +' t that the Legislature should be pre-- Rems(on of Exlslmg pared to grant moneys to the De-- l A I partment of Mines which would help W | it keep pace with the development in ater greement $| the North. N ecessary | Refers to Red Lake. -- We m t tieilo enc Hc made a passing reference to the Red Lake gold rush. Red Lake, he LINCOLN MEMBER |'said, was only one small point in a | great, extensive country filled with SPEAKS OF FRUIT 'rossibilities. '"Cattle graze right on T James Bay," he dGeclared. "It is wemnnenevenmmmemcemmenmemes warmer on the shores of Hudson Bay, F . on the average of the year, than on Stripped of the electric atmos-- | the shores of Lake Superior.'" phere which the Ontario Temper-- Prospectors had goned mt(l)d }:eld ance Act discu Lake and had discovered go ol-- a rent! ssion, and that alone, lowing the information given out by |Arparently engenders, the Ontario| Government geologists who inspect-- Legislature yesterday sat through a ed the country. Geologists had years slow--moving continuation of the de--. before reported the lr;rosrl)eclgs dmbt.he bate Porcupine district. eople had been 4 6 c;n the Address, smarten-- prone to scoff. But look, said he, niy, and then not appres. how that district developed. clably, by F. K. Keefer's -- ad-- vocacy of revision of the Niagara power treaty; the occasional sniping --_'lLof Government policy by K. H. i f Kemp (Lincoln), Progressive sharp-- shooter, and the emphatic assurance from M. M. MacBride (Conservative Brant South) that when he went on with his address the first of the week he would have *"something real interesting to tell the House." f

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