Acton Family and Friends Spend Weekend Across Ontario
Local residents and visitors are listed visiting relatives and staying for holidays across Ontario towns and lakeside cottages. Names include Miss Etta Dills, Donna Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, Miss Jean McCaig, Rev A W Fosbury, Cpl Norm Braids, Dirk Van Gooren, Marguerite Kentner, Bernice Reid, Kay Swackhamer, Miss Joyce Gravelle, Miss Shirley Marchmont, Archie Kentner, and many others. Trips extend to Toronto, Mimico, Wasaga Beach, Guelph, Oakville, Winnipeg, and Toronto area homes with church, hospital, and missionary references.
Bride’s June 1876 wedding gowns on display at ROM
Exhibition in the Royal Ontario Museum features the bride’s corded silk wedding dress from June 1876, her bridesmaid dress in blue green silk trimmed with lace, and the going away bottle green silk outfit. The gowns showcase the elaborately boatal style of the era and the three garments are presented with period hats and coats.
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Royal Ontario Museum
Presbyterian Church Service at Willow Street Manse
The Willow Street Presbyterian Church invites attendance at morning and evening services in the Town Hall on Sunday July 3, 1964. Sermon topic is There No Harm in Gilead. The morning and evening speakers are Farr and McPhail respectively. all are welcome.
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Presbyterian Church
Cannds Knox Callecll
Acton
Forbes Thomson
Willow Street
Gileadt
Baptist Church Action Sunday Services Announced
The Baptist Church invites all to worship on Sunday July 22 1944 with Reverend W H L Wallace leading the ministerial service at 11 00 am and again at 7 00 am. Sunday School starts at 12 18 pm and all are welcome.
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C. L. Pool
Stirling
Nobody Takes Night Shift Baby To Factory
A BBC short wave broadcast recounts a wartime anecdote about a worker delayed by family duties. The foreman asks why he arrived late and learns his grandmother must assist at home since she is on a night shift.
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New Zealand
Hobb Miller
BBC
Britain
Hi Foreman
Intent & War Factory
Thief Steals Wallet at St Paul's Anglican Church
Rev FE Bird told police a thief stole his wallet during Sunday morning services at St Pauls Anglican Church in Vancouver.
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Vancouver
FE. Bird
St. Paul's Anglican Church
Berry Picking Adventure and Barnyard Calamity
A first person account recalls a berry picking trip delayed by rain, the group mislaid a pall and kettles, and a daring return to recover berries. An acrobatic helper calf breaks through a rail gap causing chaos, then wanders unhurt as the narrator vents frustration at a misbehaving cow. A garden hack about a fly repellent oil is shared, promising relief from insects in berry patches and on clothing.
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Joan
Aly
Jean
Partner
Allied postwar medical relief plans amid fighter protection shift
The Technical Advisory Committee of the Allied Post-war Requirements Bureau now merged with UNRRA discussed medical needs for liberated Europe including emergency obstetric equipment and tuberculosis and typhus care. A later note mentions Allied fighters with extended protection over distant points, adding to speculative possibilities.
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Allied
Alles
Calais
Weekly War Commentary on Normandy Front Progress
Allied gains in Normandy show a widening beachhead and Cherbourg seizure as forces push inland. Reports describe heavy casualties inflicted on the enemy and continued landings, with Canadian units among the formations engaging in Cuern or Cuern-like battles amid broader Allied offensives in Europe and the Pacific.
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Normandy
Montgomery
Fenent
Eisenhower
Cherbourg
Sudmenty
Stormont
Dulhday
Glengarcy Highlanders
Cornwall
Ont
North Nova Scotis Highlanders
Amherst
N.S
Wyland
Gale
Cuen
How Munro
Sherbrooke Fualtiers
Sherbrooke
Que
Duke of York
Royal Canadian Hussars
Montreal
Lessons from War Shape Postwar National Unity
The text argues that the mobilization during war taught important lessons and that in the postwar period those lessons should guide national practice. It stresses applying wartime organization to support an all-out peace-time effort.
Tojo Dropped as Japanese War Chief in reshuffle
Japan reshuffles top leadership with Gen. Youhijiro Umezu named to succeed Foja as army chief of staff. Prime Minister Tojo retains posts as premier war minister and other ministries. The move follows Admiral Shimachi’s resignation as navy minister amid a crisis mood and warnings of national peril.
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Hideki Tojo
Tokyo
Youhijiro Umezu
Kwantung Army
Foja
Army
Tojo
Sw Permier
Commerce and Industry
Shigetaru Shimachi
Japan
Japacific Base Sparks Imperial Concern
A fragmented note claims the Pacific base stirred Emperor Hirohito to worry and that officials feel tense amid rising strains. The garbled text suggests official alarm about strategic posture and potential actions.
No. 5 ration book being prepared
Ottawa reports No 5 ration book already in preparation though No 4 is recent in circulation. No 5 book will be distributed during October. Deciding contents and printing posed a difficult task and required advance preparation at distribution time.
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Ottawa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Roy
Lambert
Donna Anderson
Toronto
Stoker
Bob Allen
Mrs. R. Wt. Arnold
Wasaga Beach
Jean McCaig of
Mimico
Ethel Pargeter
A. W. Fosbury
Cpl
Norm. Braids
Debert
Hia
Lac
Dirk van Gooren
Babe
Marguerite Kentner
Mrs. Henry Hilts
Bernice Reid
Guelph General Hospital
Law Kay Swackhamer of
Jarvis
Mrs
Arthur Swackhamer
Thomas Golden
Danny
Mrs. W. Marchment
Margaret MacDonald
Nelson F. Moore
Brn
Kenneth Fille
Richmond
Joyce Gravelle
Windsor
Shirley Marchmoent
FE. Kentner
Muriel Wilts
Ballinofad
Archie Kentner
Howard van Wyck
London
Robert Shaw
Guelph
Charles Havens
Milas Noble Anderson
British Guiana
John Harvey
Anne Somerville
Mrs. Ricketts of
Guelph Tapent
Charles Heard
Pte
Grant Allen
Christie Street Hospital
Robert Allen
Frank Howes
Allan
John Lamtb
Edward Rognvaldean
Gondon Rognvaldean
John Rognvaldeon
Fred Parnell
Aurora
Patay Parnell
Chas. ‘Packer
Mildred Hollinger
Winnipeg
John Major
A. J. Buchanan
West Coast
Helen Holmes
Shirley Kentner
Ena van der Grinten
Ruth Munthers
Bunny Anderson
Jean Harris
Rumley Cottage
Oakville
W. J. Hall
Marjorie
SH. McCron
Wally McCron
McCron
Barnsdale
Lake Joseph
Paul McCron
Church of Canada
Adon
Ontario
the Friendly Church
A. Walter Foshbury
Bower Avenue
Howard Graff
North American Life
Ali Baba
40 Thieves
Techn Tandasy
Weno Maria Montez, Jon Hall
Naval
Arabia
George Sanders
Virginia Bruce
Gloria Jean
Patric Knowles
Fox News
Hargrove
Robert Walker
Donny Reed
Mackinac Island
Cinger Farm
Dwendomner
Nasis Panicky
Youssin
Pruasia
Hax
Germany
Vitter
German Woll
Leghorn
Bth
Santas Wuola
Tiber Valley
Citta al Cauteiro
Pacific
Guam
United States Island
Saipan
Moscow
Red Army
Grodno
Bnililes
Brest Litovek
Bialystok
Warsaw
Aleas
Stalin
Odon Galient
Chen
St. Yo
Associated Presh
Don Whitehead
St. Lo
England
Peenemunde
Zinnowitz
Reich
Italy
Sir James Grigg
James
Anthony Eden
Stalagruft
Yast
Park
Erin Y Priday Modernashes Orchestra
Admiraion
Ballard's Meaties
Kam
Clark
Rosme
Bo Boe
Zon
Palmolive Ie
Quaker Gate Bs
Vis
SUCAR
Valencia
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