War Orphans Find Refuge in England
About 600 Jewish war orphans from Auschwitz and Theresienstadt find temporary care in England under UNRRA as they wait for potential adoption. They live in hostels, attend a village school, and receive nightly baths, personal belongings, and care while authorities determine future steps and possible family connections overseas.
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England
Lingfield
Surrey
Auschwitz
Havensbruck
Dechau
Gelsen
UNRRA
Judith
Hax
Tanja
Vicki
Fritz
U.tzz
Vdenka
Magda
Battle- Fhelds
Campa
Theresienstadt
Czechoslovakia
Unrraa
America
Paleatirf
Plow Recounts Pioneer Days in Winnipeg Exhibit
A 1 year old plow with Strathness in Orkney and lineage to James Clouston of Selkirk is shown at the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. It traveled from Scotland to New York in 1860, then by barge up the Mississippi to Winnipeg, finally settling in Selkirk before its exhibit.
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Winnipeg
Stramness
Orkney Islands
Scottland
Selkirk
Here
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
James Clouston
Mr. Clouston
Scotland
New York
Selkirk District
Beoufault building hit by truck then bus crash in Quebec
In St Georges Quebec a building housing La Banque Canadienne Nationale suffered heavy damage after a truck crashed into its front followed by an autobus skidding into the main entrance. Windows were smashed and the structure seriously damaged.
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ST. Georges
Que
la Banque Canadienne Nationale
Beauce
Canada’s food effort dominates Ottawa week of recess
Ottawa week centers on world food crisis with Parliament in recess. Canada plans 5 million bushels oats and 2.5 million bushels No 4 wheat for overseas relief. Labour shortages persist on the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec, with farm wages rising.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Prices Board
Mackenzie King
Labor Department
Chaiman Donald Gordon
Jte
Gordon
Unerla
King
Canada
Oata
Cabinet
Wheat Board
Prairien
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Maritime Provinces
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Orphans to Visit Quebec Province This Summer
Plans under way to bring 50 to 100 French war orphans aged 7 to 11 to Quebec province for the summer. The children will largely come from the Caen district where Canadian troops distinguished themselves in the last war.
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Quebec
Quebec Province
Caen
Cedar bird houses still hard to get
In Montreal the Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds notes a continuing shortage of cedar bird houses from British Columbia. Members report no cedar houses in local shops, only beyk and scrap wood options, while guidance stresses rough inner walls for bird safety.
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Montreal
Province of
Quebec
Theodore Lambert
National Parks Bureau
Guinea Pigs Aid African Medicos In Sleeping Sickness Drive
Four consignments of experimental guinea pigs flown to Freetown for use in a campaign against sleeping sickness. Guinea pigs inoculated with a ticking sickness virus and infected flies shipped to the UK for testing at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The effort targets Nigeria Uganda Kenya and other territories where maketie fly ravages humans and cattle.
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Freetown
Sierra Leone
Rithh Overseas Airways Corporation
Nigeria
Uganda
Kenya
Africa
United Kingdom
Liverpool School of _ Tropical
New Wheat Variety Gets Final Tests
Ottawa reports a new wheat variety, lab code HUT. 1841, shows superior yield and leaf rust resistance in Manitoba three-year trials versus Regent Thatcher and others. Developed at Winnipeg Dominion Laboratory of Cereal Breeding from Regent X Vancouver cross, it awaits final quality tests and reflects Canada’s plant breeding advances.
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Ottawa
Dominion Agricultural
Manitoba
Regent
Thatcher
Hut
Dominion Laboratory
Winnipeg
Agriculture Department
Canada
Prairie
Vanguard
Ajax
Pigeons Make Weekly Jaunt From Ashford
In Ashford Kent a railway porter opened a wooden conte on the sabway platform as a cloud of pigeons fluttered skyward bound for Margate fifty miles away Every Sunday JOA Rasmden of Margate sends its pageants by rail to different towns with instructions they be released on arrival He always gets them back said a railway official
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Ashford
Kent
England
Margate
Joa Rasmden
Raib
Southern Railway
Poultry by Grade Set for Montreal and Quebec City
Montreal and Quebec City will enforce dressing poultry by grade starting April 3. The Dominion and Provincial Departments of Agriculture will regulate retail sales to ensure graded products with a grade stamp. Higher quality producers receive better payment, boosting care in preparation and benefiting both farmers and shoppers.
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Montreal
Quebec City
Domlinlon
Departments of Agriculture
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Charlottetown
Summerside
Quebec
Dominion
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Kiewater
Caades
Db Terre Laure
Montreal Auteriers Association
Lavare
Practical Tent: Australian Tries Enlistment Despite Bad Feet
An Australian man attempted to enlist but was refused for bad feet. He returned the next day with a stubborn gag about walking far to get there and not wanting to walk back, highlighting his persistence in the face of rejection.
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le Dent Exdgson
Canadian Press
Llingstone
Fort Erie, Ont
National Employment Service
George Bond
Medicos
Montreal-Quebec
Earl van Norman Mala Stivest
Asien
A. Floyd Smith
Quebec Street
West Guelph
Milton Welding
Milton
Miss Allan
Arthur
Guelph
Canadian Government Travel Bureau
Dnaat OF Trade & Commerce
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