Canada at War The Nav Bain Halifax tour reveals navy strength
Editors tour Halifax as Royal Canadian Navy expands. Convoy work, training at King's College and dockyard highlighted. Destroyers and corvettes in action, depth charges and smoke screens demonstrated. Navy growth from 13 to 250 ships, 1,300 to 23,000 personnel. Women support via canteens, hospitals rise. officials praise leadership and effort.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Halifax
Atlantic
King's College
Officers’ Training Establishment
Admiralty House
His Majesty
Prairies
Dunkirk
Commodore Jones
Britain
Royal-Canadian—Navy
H.M.C.S. Fineer
English Channel
Quebec Dorkyard
Ontario
Canada
J. P. Connolly
V.D
Royal Naval
Week at Ottawa details new wartime purchase limits
The War Prices and Trade Board imposed tighter instalment and borrowing rules to curb civilian spending, with minimum down payments and one year terms. Canada aims to delay nonessential purchases to support the war effort while boosting shipbuilding and munitions output, including tanks for Russia and the Fort Ville Marie launch. Prime Minister Mackenzie King also visited a large cartridge plant as amendments broaden postponement powers for essential war industry workers.
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Isley Eaid
Tigley
Howe
Canada
Russia
Angus
Montreal
Fort
Ville Marie
H. R. MacMillan
Wartime Merchant Shipping Ltd
Fort Ville -Marie
Britain
Mackenzie King
Dominion
Quebec
Storing Garden Vegetables For Winter Freezing Risks
Ottawa reports advice from the Dominion Department of Agriculture on storing vegetables for winter. Recommendations cover basement root-cellars with insulated, vented rooms and earth floors, keeping beets carrots parsnips and cabbage near freezing with high humidity, onion storage just above freezing and dry, cabbage and celery packed in moist sand or roots attached, gourds squash and pumpkins kept dry at around two degrees, and careful handling to prevent bruising and disease.
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Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Clover tops harvested by new machine tops hand pickers
A University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy team unveiled a tractor drawn rotary rake that harvests red clover blossoms at 600 rpm and four miles an hour, yielding four tons daily versus six pounds by hand pickers. The device aims to speed up medicinal plant gathering.
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Chicago
University of Minols College of Pharmacy
United States
Canada
Ontario expert advises on vegetable storage temperatures
George Rush, vegetable specialist of the Ontario Department of Agriculture, says vegetables for winter use should be heat stored on a sand floor at about three degrees above freezing.
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Toronto
George Rush
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Wartime Girl Attend Surrendered Duty Sign-Up
Sgt A F Buffin of the Grenadier Guards persuaded 64 girls to join war work after recalling a close call in action. He showed his shoulder wound and warned of facing Germans with an empty rifle, urging them to enlist.
Hog Outlook 1941 42 from Canadian Agricultural Review
The Current Review of Agricultural Conditions in Canada notes, from the June 1 livestock survey, that the 1941 spring pig crop is similar to 1940, so fall hog marketings may be near last year. Sows farrowing in the fall are up about 7 percent, with actual breeding increases possibly higher due to rising prices. First half 1941 42 slaughterings (Oct March) may match 3.6 million, with a rise expected April to Sept 1942.
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Canada
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