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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1937
Page
2
The Sault Star notes a million dollars is allotted for the Montreal River lower falls power plant amid larger district sums. It compares the figure to antique savings and historic costs to illustrate the scale of the investment.
Nearly one million more visitors entered Canada from the United States in the first half of 1937 than in the same period of 1936. Immigration figures show 6,374,339 arrivals versus 5,409,331. The note cites vast highway networks, scenic regions from the Maritimes to the Rockies, and Canada’s twenty National Parks as major tourist draws.
A Better Policy endorses permanent road and bridge work in towns. Brock Street bridge will get a cement covering. Rockwood shows success with hard surfaced streets and dust abatement. Acton council weighs more hard surfaced roads with a pay as you go approach. A low cost material is visible near Hornby on the seventh line.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics puts 1937 Canadian wheat production at 188,101,000 bushels, below 1936's peak. Spring wheat reaches 220,218,000 bushels. fall wheat 10,102,000. Oat crop 282,065,000. barley 87,781,000. flaxseed sharply reduced due to Saskatchewan drought. Ontario up over a million tons, Quebec and prairie provinces down. Main hay and clover at 13,087,000 tons.
The St Marys Journal Argus notes the provinces move to reduce traffic deaths targets bicyclists riding two abreast and on one wheel. Officials expect the check up to curb dangerous cycling for riders and all highway users.
The editorial notes gratitude for immunity from infantile paralysis, new auto markers, lower prices, and highway work on the Middle Road providing local jobs. It cites Canada’s July electric output and butter production, warns of a level crossing accident, promotes home improvement funds, and salutes Editor E A Harris’s 38 years at the Burlington Gazette.
A farmer details a disrupted routine as holidays end and threshing looms. The narrator juggles meal planning for ten, a missing song, and a late trip to Lloyds of London with family, while a threshing delay shapes the day’s chaos and relief.
Fragmentary wartime prose recounts relief after a tense moment. A speaker notes the crowd’s fatigue and gratitude that a loved one did not miss a beat, recalling years of performance and resilience amid loss.
Canada’s 1936 fisheries totaled 30,164,618 dollars, up 14 percent from 1935, with inland fisheries at 6,213,861 and sea fisheries at 23,951,067. Salmon, lobster, and cod dominated, accounting for 65 percent of the total, while British Columbia led in value, followed by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The 1936 catch reached 11,088,270 hundredweight valued at landing 22,083,742 dollars, against 9,532,016 cwt worth 20,755,787 in 1935.
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