WETASKIWIN 



G23U 



WEYMAN 



WETASKIWIN, we las' ki win, a city in the 

 central part of Alberta, forty-two miles south 

 of Edmonton, 152 miles north of Calgary and 

 326 miles northwest of Saskatoon. Wetaskiwin 

 is the junction point of the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway and the Calgary- 

 Edmonton branch, and is the natural shipping 

 point for a prosperous farming center. Its 

 grain elevators have a capacity of more than 

 200.000 bushels. Population in 1911, 2,411, an 

 increase of 338 per cent over 1901; in 1916 it 

 was 2,048. 



Wetaskiwin's chief manufactures are flour, 

 butter, tents and mattresses. Natural gas and 

 coal are found in the vicinity, and there is also 

 a large supply of brick clay. The city owns 

 and operates its waterworks and electric-light- 

 ing system. The word Wetaskiwin means 

 peace hilk, and was originally applied to the 

 hills west of the city. The town was founded 

 about 1893 and was incorporated in 1905. The 

 population is chiefly Canadian, but there is a 

 considerable percentage of Scotch and Scandi- 

 navians. 



WETH'ERALD, AGNES ETHELWYN (1857- 

 ), a Canadian poet, novelist and journalist, 

 also known by her pen name of BELLE THIS- 

 TLEWAITE. She was bora at Rockwood, Ontario, 

 and was educated at Friends' Schools in On- 

 tario and in New York. Some of Miss Wether- 

 aid's poems, especially those signed Belle This- 

 tlewaite, have appeared in Saint Nicholas 

 Magazine. She has also been a frequent con- 

 tributor to other periodicals, was at one time 

 editor of the woman's department of the To- 

 ronto Globe, and was on the staff of the Ladies' 

 Home Journal. The Algonquin Maiden is her 

 principal work of fiction. Her poems have 

 been published in several volumes, under these 

 tiths: The House of the Trees; Tangled in 

 Stars; The Radiant Road; The Last Robin. 



WEYBURN, wa'hnrn, a city in Southern 

 Saskatchewan. The Souris River, which flows 

 through Weyburn, is not navigable, but ample 

 transportation facilities are provided by several 

 branches of the Canadian Pacific and by one 

 branch of the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail 

 Weyburn is fifty-three miles northwest of 

 Estcvan and ninety-one miles southeast of 

 Moose Jaw. It is about 500 miles east of Leth- 

 bridge, tl -.MS of the Weyburn- 1.< -ill- 



bridge branch of the Canadian Pacific, tl,.- 

 shortest route between Winnipeg and the Pa- 

 cific coast. The city was found* d in 1901, and 

 was named for the "wee burn" <>m:dl river) on 

 which it is situati 03 incorporated in 



1912, and at the same time adopted the com- 

 mission form of government. Population in 

 1911, 2,210; in 1916, 3,054. 



Weyburn's six elevators and large flour mill 

 indicate the chief product of the farms in the 

 vicinity. Weyburn also has soap works, an iron 

 foundry, a sash, door and glass factory, various 

 other industrial establishments and a large 

 wholesale trade. It has a customhouse and 

 Dominion lands office, and it is the center of a 

 judicial district. The city owns all of its 

 public utilities as well as a number of beautiful 

 parks, among the latter being Reservoir (160 

 acres), City (forty acres), and Exhibition Park 

 (twenty acres). Among the noteworthy build- 

 ings in Weyburn are a collegiate institute, built 

 in 1912 at a cost of $85,000; a public hospital, 

 completed in 1913 at the same cost; McKin- 

 non's departmental store (1911, $150,000); and 

 the Weyburn Security Bank (1911), the home 

 office of this chartered barik. This is the only 

 chartered bank whose home office is west of 

 'Winnipeg, and with two exceptions the only 

 one whose home office is neither in Quebec nor 

 Ontario. 



WEYLER, wa'ler, NICOLAU VALEHIANO, Mar- 

 quis of Teneriffe (1839- ), a Spanish general 

 whose governorship of Cuba was marked by ex- 

 treme harshness and cruelty. He was born at 

 Palma, on the island of Majorca, was educated 

 in Granada, and rose through tin* military 

 ranks until he became lieutenant-general in 

 1878. During the American War of Secession 

 he was military attacHc of the Spanish legation 

 in Washington, and he accompanied General 

 Sheridan in a number of cavalry raids. In 1868 

 he was ordered to Cuba, where he served for 

 ten years under Balmaceda. He was appointed 

 governor-general of the Canary Islands in 1879, 

 became captain-general of the Philippines in 

 1889, and afterward was made provincial | 

 ernor of Catalonia, Spain. 



In 1896 Weyler succeeded Martinez Campos 

 as governor of Cuba, and from the hmmnmn 

 he ruled with extreme cruelty. His methods 

 aroused indignation in the United States, and 

 in 1897 the Spanish government recalled him. 

 For a time he was Minister of War in the 

 Cabinets of Sagasta and Montero Rio*, and 

 I it < i lu- was made captain-general of Catalonia. 



WEYMAN, tm'rwm, STNM (1855- 



), an Kni;li>li novelist, born at Ludlow, 



Shropshire. He waa a student at Shrewsbury 



School and at Oxford, and was adnutt, d to th, 



-si. He practiced until 1890, when his 



fir-t romance. The House of the Wolf, ap- 



