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...four loyal Prime Ministers had just been gratified by the first Coronation ceremony (see col. 3) in history which featured separate oaths by the King for each Dominion. And King George had received them all at Buckingham Palace with equal deference (see cut). Colleague Baldwin was now anxious to capitalize that equality by letting them share his biggest headache: Britain's $7,500,000,000 bill for Rearmament...
Premier Pattullo. still immaculate but with a bigger girth, announced exultantly last week that British Columbia had closed a deal with the Dominion Government to take over Yukon Territory. As soon as British Columbia's Legislature signs on the dotted line, that province with an area of 573,331 sq. mi. will become, next to Quebec, the largest in Canada, more than ten times as big as New York State. From maps of Canada will disappear the colorful Yukon Territory, made famous by the discovery of gold in 1896 and the hairy-chested poems of Robert William Service...
...separate political unit soon after the first gleam of gold appeared in the Klondike rapids of the Yukon River, Yukon is at present administered by a federal government Comptroller and a Territorial Council of three. Yukon's sole representative in the Dominion Parliament since October. 1935 has been Mrs. George Black, a dashing woman who left Chicago to join the gold rush of 1898. She exploded angrily last week when Premier Pattullo announced his acquisition, expressed "surprise" that no statement had been made "either in Parliament or by the Prime Minister...
...means reluctant was the Dominion to surrender control of the Yukon, which has cost it nearly eleven million dollars for its development with almost no direct return to Ottawa. Cheerfully the Government consented to make an annual grant to British Columbia of $125,000 for five years to help meet the expense of taking over...
British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...