On Jan. 15, 1914, Governor General William Patrick Albert (pictured above) delivered his throne speech to set out Prime Minister Borden’s plan for the country in the third session of Canada’s 12th Parliament.
The governor general spoke of the government’s success in passing the Agricultural Instruction Act in 1913, which granted provinces funding for the purposes of “aiding and advancing the farming industry by instruction in agriculture…”
He also mentioned that construction of a federally owned grain terminal in Port Arthur, now Thunder Bay, Ont., was complete.