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and expanded it to eight pages as a weekly, covering world news and little local news. Wade's activities on the Board of Trade and a group known as the 10,000 Club (which like others of its time sought to promote growth in the city to a population of 10,000), Wade engaged in an advertising campaign
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and the newspaper espoused Liberal politics. In the same year he was appointed doctor for the Provincial Home for men and the local jail, and in 1899 he was appointed coroner and in 1900 elected vice-president of the Kamloops Liberal Association and also elected to the
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Wade died in 1929 leaving his wife Emma and son M. Leighton; another son, Daryl Fred, had died in 1920 after operating as an auto mechanic in Kamloops from 1912 and serving in the war from 1916 onwards to its completion. M. Leighton earned a from
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displays this trait. He possessed every scrap of evidence on the Overlanders that was to be had in diaries and correspondence and by word of mouth. The book is very meticulous and a fascinating work."
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and was involved in construction of the Mt. Olie power plant near Kamloops in 1913 and later supervised construction of hydroelectric development at Adams Lake, also becoming superintendent of the
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in 1912 and was elected alderman in 1913, retiring from the position and touring Europe briefly in 1914, returning to serve as a member of the medical board examining new recruits for the
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in the 1920s, he was able to interview many veterans of the province's early gold rush, including many of the more famous names in the history of the
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with the party surveying the Qu'Appelle, Regina, Moose Jaw and Swift Current area. In the fall of that year he returned to school at the
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to Wade, who continued publishing it as a small paper covering only local and district news. In 1910, he tied the paper into a
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General Hospital, finishing in 1883. He returned to England for a short visit, then upon re-entry to Canada at
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to draw industries to the city, promoting ventures such as a tourist hotel, steamboat service on the
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in 1930 and from 1934 onwards was in charge of the Kamloops area highway department.
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area near his brother Edmund Wade, practicing there until 1884. He hired on with
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by Mark Sweeten Wade (Inland Sentinel Print., 1907) (click link to read on-line)
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Mackenzie of Canada: The Life and Adventurers of Alexander Mackenzie, Discoverer
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and returning to Canada in 1882 was hired as a medical officer for the
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was the first biography ever published on the famous explorer. His
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in the Kamloops area for that railway's expansion of a line to the
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in 1892 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer of the province by
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and due to most such appointments in the province being from
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registered as a medical practitioner and took land in the
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on November 23, 1858. His parents were John Wade of
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During his lifetime Wade wrote two books other than
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Index

British Columbia
Kamloops Home for Men
Cariboo Road
Cariboo Gold Rush
Overlanders of 1862 led by Thomas McMicking
Alexander Mackenzie
Sunderland
County Durham
England
Stockton-on-Tees
Barnard Castle
Durham University
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Canadian Pacific Railway survey
University of Toronto
Victoria, B.C.
Surrey
Andrew Onderdonk
Canadian Pacific Railway
Spences Bridge
Savona
James Bottrell Uren
Clinton
San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
smallpox epidemic
Premier
Theodore Davie
Kamloops
ear, nose and throat specialist

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