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Calgary Herald

28 Mar 1903

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The Great Convention at Moose Jaw.

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maintaining the highest scale of Canadian wages, the supremacy of the Canadian workshop, and the development of the enormous natural resources of the Dominion. That our party should steadily strive to obtain a mutual protective tariff within the Empire, and the future growth of Canada requires a fixed and definite policy of national development, which can only be successfully carried into effect by the Canadian party which first recognized the possibilities of the Canadian West, and adopted a national policy for the upbuilding and establishment of native industries, the development of our natural resources and the providing of employment for our own people.
Officers Eelected.
A Territorial Conservative association was organized with the following officers:
Honorary president, F. W. G. Haultain.
President, Thos. Tweed, Medicine Hat.
First vice president, Dr. T. C. Spence, Prince Albert.
Second vice president, W. C. Ives, Lethbridge.
Executive Committee.
R. B. Bennett, M. L. A., Calgary, for Alberta.
Dr. Creamer, Qu'Appelle, for Eastern Assiniboia.
G. M. Annable, M. L. A., Moose Jaw, for Western Assiniboia.
Thos. McKay, M. L. A., Prince Albert, for Saskatchewan.


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