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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1941
Page
8
Births and marriages listed for February 1941 with names and places including Toronto, Guelph, Acton. Death notices note Catherine McArthur and Mabel McCutcheon, and memories for John Gibbons with family tributes. Memorial verses in In Memoriam follow.
War Savings Campaign displays brighten shop windows in Acton district and a thermometer in A T Browns window tracks progress. Finishing touches on the Bank of Nova Scotia building move planned for March. No criminal cases this week at Mitton County Court. Justice COP presided.
Fragmentary historic text lists names and duties of officers and utilities figures such as Leconte and Noten Public Utilities Mission Services. Mentions Bell Velepione and Harrop related to street work. References pigeons nuisance and disposal by Chief Harrop.
Obituaries from Acton and Toronto report the death of John Crawshaw dies at his Speyside home after long illness, with funeral at Fairview Cemetery Acton led by Rev. John Riddell. Also noted is Mrs James Hall of 298 Pape Avenue Toronto who died after failing health, leaving two daughters and two sons.
PORONTO Feb 26 Ontario workers may access affordable hospital care under a plan endorsed by the Ontario Hospital Association and the Ontario Medical Association. W T L Sanders of Yoronta named directorate. The plan guarantees standard hospital accommodation for 50 cents monthly for individuals and 1 dollar for a family, with free hospital and doctor choice and no cash deposits on admission.
In Acton and Canada-wide, citizens are urged to support the war effort by lending money through War Savings Certificates. The message calls for regular purchases, emphasizing return with interest and solidarity with servicemen in the fight.
A wartime letter from George Molotart in Acton Ontario describes his training in Portage la Prairie and Portage entry to an air service program. He notes minus twenty degree weather and lax guard duties, and mentions shipments of Fan Paras and hopes for a pilot classification.
The four presidents who steered the Canadian Pacific Railway over sixty years—Lord Mount Stephen Sir William Van Horne Lord Shaughnessy and Sir Edward Beatty—are praised for courage ideals and service. The article notes the company’s founding in 1881 financing challenges and wartime leadership with Shaughnessy expanding rail and ship services and Beatty modernizing during modern era.
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