Movement Of Farm Labour In Canada Through The Years
A Labour Gazette summary notes farm labour movement across Canada from Halifax to Vancouver including exports to the United States. It cites 1848 with 15 000 workers moving domestically and to Maine Montana Vermont. harvest specials began in 1896 and the Dominion government began coordinating seasonal workers in 1920 as farming diversified.
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THE
Labour Gazette
Canada
West
the Gazette
Halifax
Vancouver
United States
Maine
Montana
Vermont
Prairies
Dominion
Harvest excursions mark growing farm labor mobility
The Agrarian and National Selective Service divisions now coordinate seasonal workers under the Hyde Park Declaration of 1941. In 1948 some 15,000 farm laborers circulated nationwide with 3,000 to Western wheat harvests 1,000 haymakers to Ontario and 1,200 tobacco pickers to Ontario and Quebec. The early harvest excursions are the vanguard of a permanent essential workforce expanding steadily.
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Employment Service of Canada
Agricultural Division
National Selective Service
Hyde Park
United States
Ontario
Quebec
Estimated Wheat Crop In Canada
Canada expects a 1949 wheat crop of 391.5 million bushels, down 1.8 million from last year and about 18.6 million below the 1939 48 ten year average. Harvesting occurs over a near record seeding area around 27.5 million acres, above 1948 and the ten year average.
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Canada
Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Vancouver to Hong Kong shipments spark Far East meat market
Horse meat canned in Swift Current Sask was shipped from Vancouver to Hong Kong, where a market for the product has been developed. The initial shipment is expected to lead to further purchases by buyers in the Belgian Congo and other destinations in the Far East.
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Swift Current
Vancouver
Hong Kong
Far East
Belgian Congo
Father Takes Errant Son to Prairie Farm
In Vancouver a father told Police Court he would leave his 17 year stay and home of 17 years to move his son to a prairie farm. The youth received a floater sentence after pleading guilty to car theft. Defence counsel blamed bad influences on the boy.
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Vancouver
Matheson
Thomas Hurley
Mechanics Wise Nail Joke Sparks Dinner Table Hammering
A garage mechanic’s children hammer nails into a dining-table. A neighbor asks if it’s expensive for kids to play there. The mechanic replies he buys nails wholesale, implying low cost makes the activity affordable.
Alberta Tuberculosis Association Passes Decade Of Service
The Alberta Tuberculosis Association marks ten years serving Alberta. President Ed Read cites free chest X rays for over 500 000 people and rising funds from the Christmas Seal Sale, which grew from 10 000 in 1938 to 136 135 this year. A new survey program costing about 100 000 is planned with grants to hospitals to provide routine chest X rays for general admissions. Alberta has about 100 hospitals and a yearly hospital population around 200 000.
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Alberta Tuberculosis Association
Alberta
Ed Read
Read
A.T.A
Bible Explains Return of Cash in Anonymous Letter
An anonymous letter containing 105 dollars arrived at the Internal Revenue mailbox in Dallas. A note urged reading Romans 13. Assistant Collector Kirby H. Jackson consulted the Bible and cited render to all their dues and tribute to whom due. The piece ends with a baffling aside about the water hen.
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Dallas
Tex
Internal Revenue Collector
Canadian Graves in Hong Kong Well Maintained
Regina editor D. B. Rogers reports from an air tour that Canadian war dead at Sai Wan Military Cemetery in Hong Kong are beautifully maintained. More than 1,000 white crosses mark the hillside site near the harbor, with unknown soldiers among the rows.
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Regina
Hong Kong
War Graves Commission
D. B. Rogers
North
South Pacific
Sai Wan Military Cemetery
Rogers
Hong Kong Island
Tasmanian wombat described as unique marsupial mammal
The Tasmanian wombat is a marsupial mammal native to Australia and Tasmania. It resembles rodents but has a rudimentary tail and is distinct to the region.
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Australia
Tasmania
Farming Is Big Business In Canada
The Canadian farm sector is a major economy with over six billion dollars invested in land livestock and equipment. Wheat exports to the United Kingdom will bring roughly 280 million dollars in hard currency this year while farm output exceeds a billion dollars. meanwhile farmers must cover costs for fertilizer feed gasoline and machinery, and mechanization raises regional incomes through manufacturing and transport jobs. The Federal Government of Agriculture notes eastern farms cost about 28.76 to 37.44 per acre to outfit with machinery depending on size, warning that overbuying can push costs to about 48 per acre for a 150 acre operation.
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Canada
United States
United Kingdom
Western Prairies
Federal Government of Agriculture
Roving Jokes and Light Cracks From Spare Nonsense
A brisk page of humorous quips features a banqueting scene with wine and poison jokes a parlor maid and guests in limousine haute couture lines about dependents and a clean observatory anecdote plus a punchy Irish remark and a lunch with a wife gag, cataloged as light entertainment.
Young Alberta Violinist Makes First Train Journey to Toronto
Alfred Myhre, 12, from Tolfield Alberta, traveled solo to Toronto to compete in the Old Time Fiddler Contest at the Canadian National Exhibition. Self-taught, he began violin after hearing a local performer at six and was funded by CFRN and the Northern Alberta Crippled Children's Fund. His journey was arranged by CFRN and promoter Capt. J. S. Atkinson after a national Search for Talent broadcast.
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Alfred Myhre
Tolfield
Alberta
Toronto
Edmonton
CFRN
Alfred
Associated
Canadian Travellers
Northern Alberts Crippled Children’s Fund
Esther
J. S. Atkinson
Canada
Capt. Atkinson
C.N.E
Atkinson
G. A. Duffield
Alfred Mylore
N.E
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Far East Market
Kirby H. Jackson
Europe
Africa
R. W. McCaffrey
Man
Dolcin
Dolcin Limited
Les Carroll
Tess Faw
GOL Sakes
Eno
Tragedian
Attrica
Young Alberta
Fleischmann
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