Sterling silver thumb spoon, awarded to Kindersley Lidstone, son of Mr. I. T. Lidstone, buyer of crockery H.B.C. store at Kamloops, British Columbia. This fine baby was born on the day of the 250th Anniversary Celebration at Kamloops and was named for Governor Sir Robert Kindersley by special arrangement. _Third Prize_-- Sterling and ivory bell rattle, awarded to Kathleen Flora Gould, daughter of Mr. Gould, of H.B.C. Edmonton Store. [Illustration: Presenting a Bevy of Fine Babies WHOSE FATHERS ARE MEMBERS OF H.B.C. Staffs Catherine Mary Bartleman WINNIPEG Age 9½ Months--Wt. 22 Lbs. Margaret Rhoda Milne KAMLOOPS B.C. Age 7 Months--Wt. 19 Lbs. 1ST. PRIZE Betty Iris Everitt WINNIPEG Age 9 Months--Weight 27 Lbs. Margaret Mitchell EDMONTON Age 12 Months--Wt. 20 Lbs. Frank Richard Rogers WINNIPEG Aged 2 months--Wt. 9¾ Lbs. Stanley Philip Oakes THE PAS Age 13 Months 3RD. PRIZE Kathleen Flora Gould EDMONTON Age 3½ Months--Weight 18 lbs. Lilian Jessie Blake WINNIPEG Age 2 Months--Wt. 11¾ Lbs. 2ND. PRIZE Kindersley Lidstone KAMLOOPS B.C. Age 8 Months--Wt. 22½ Lbs. Margaret L. Coulter WINNIPEG Age 9½ Months--Wt. 18½ Lbs. Elfreda Grace Sewell VANCOUVER Age 7½ Months--Weight 19 Lbs. Mary Geraldine Wilmot FORT WILLIAM Age 5½ Months Sydney Roy Upton VANCOUVER Age 9 Months--Wt. 20 Lbs. James Arthur Hillman WINNIPEG Age 11 Months--Wt. 23 Lbs. Edward Ross Thompson LETHBRIDGE Age 7 Months--Weight 22 Lbs. Wallace Beatty MacDonald CALGARY Age 12 Months--Weight 27 Lbs. Gwynne Shapter CALGARY Age 16 Months--Wt. 27 Lbs. William E. Andrews VANCOUVER Age 9 Months Bernard Philip Jones WINNIPEG Age 18 Months--Wt. 25 Lbs. Bonnie Gibson CALGARY Age 16 Months--Wt. 35 Lbs.] ================================================== H.B.C. Helped Settlers Remain on Land During "Lean Years" _Liberal and Constructive Policy of Company in Disposal of Its Farm Land Estate in Canada Has Obtained Agriculturists for the West and Kept Them_ PROBABLY no institution or organization in Canada has done more towards pioneering and paving the way for settlement than the Hudson's Bay Company. From the very beginning, when the first white settlers began to arrive, agricultural lands were made available for settlement by the Company in the Red River Valley, and as the demand increased, prairie lands were surveyed into regular townships, and lands accruing to the Company were made available for sale at reasonable prices, and every inducement and encouragement given to agriculturists to settle thereon.