Trans-Canada Pipe Lines gains pace across prairie spreads
The Trans-Canada Pipe Lines project from Alberta to eastern Canada advances at about two miles per day. Williams Bros. runs the Deveron to Manitoba border spread from Grenfell with 360 workers and a $60,000 weekly payroll. James G. Jester leads the operation under T EL Davis with 21 three quarter ton pickups, seven buses, heavy trucks, welders, ditching machines and other equipment. The Windthorst Independent notes the large scale effort as the most extensive since CPR steel laid in 1852.
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Trans-Canada
Alberta
Canada
Mannix Limited
Pease
Deveron
Williams Bros
Manitoba
Grenfell
CPR
Willams Bros
James G. Jester
Georgia
USA
T EL Davis
M. ©. Thornp
Bon
Music in the Sturgis Unit explores school music program
B Hafsteinn outlines the Sturgis School Unit No 45 music plan with local bands, core aims, and administrative structure. He details unit associations, board responsibilities, instrument ownership, classroom music integration, and the path to widespread, sustained student involvement in music education.
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Sturgis School Unit No
B. Hafsteinn
Sturgis Unit
Nuna
Sturgis
Unit Board
Unit
Ees Ile
Ae Lan
Central Board
R. Staples
Saskatchewan
Department of Education
Ontario Rural Hydro to Build Area Office and Warehouse
Sinclair Supply Co of Vankleek Hill wins contract to erect Rural Hydro Area Office and warehouse on Queen Street for over $50,000. Project aims for late fall completion. firm has built three local residences and owns land for several more homes.
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Sinclair Suply Co., Ltd
Yanklee Hill
Hydro
Queen St
Vankleek Hill
Proverb on Talkers and Steam Warns of Inaction
A short verse warns that talkers abound while action stalls like steam whistling but never turning the wheel. The poem uses metaphor to urge decisive work over idle chatter.
Summer adventure in Canada draws many to far northern work
The article notes university students volunteering across Canada in the eastern Arctic at Frobisher Bay and Eskimo settlements. It highlights Mines and Technical Surveys sending 76 Arctic survey parties for 200 new maps, army engineers surveying wilderness, medical teams aboard the C D Howe ship conducting health exams, and thousands of holidaymakers seeking outdoor life in parks.
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Frobisher Bay
Arctic
Canada
Mines and Technical Surveys Department
Army
Ottawa
C. D. Howe
Ellesmere Island
DEW
Winkler, Man
Pernation Restaurant Opens With Liquor License at Selkirk
The Pernation Restaurant in Selkirk opens its doors at noon on Wednesday July 31 under Norman Scherza management. The revamped former Selkirk Frozen Food Locker features soft lighting plush carpeting mahogany paneling and a mural with air conditioning. It will operate seven days a week from 12 noon to 12 midnight and aims to be the town’s finest establishment of its type.
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Pernation
Selkirk
Lquor
Norman Scherza
Enterprise
Man
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Independent
Windthorst, Sask
Saskatche
Wan
Dufferin
Carman
Carman Band
Reid Cochran
Ontario
Rural Hydro
The
Carillon News
Steinbach, Man
Sarto
Gruntha-Sarto
Greenwich
England
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