Excerpt from Speech by the Hon. William R. Ross, K. C., Before the Victoria Board of Trade: April 11, 1913 When people come here from the Middle West and from Ontario. Where the country is level and the conditions uniform. They are apt to wonder why they cannot to into the Lands Office and find out exactly where they can get a section or quarter section to pre-empt, with full particulars, and they say that when that is not available that it is the duty of the Government to have all such information on tap. They write letters to the papers or complain to their friends. And their complaints are echoed for political purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.