Navy Week Highlighted Canada’s Naval Strength and Trade Lifeline
The Navy Week event, sponsored by the Navy League of Canada with the Department of Naval Services, urged all Canadians to recognize naval supremacy’s role in trade, empire, and national existence. D. H. Gibson noted Canada's navy and merchant fleets aid the Allied war effort amid strong enemy opposition.
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Navy League of Canada
Department of Naval Services
Canada
D. H. Gibson
Navy League
Canada’s Navy Growth Amid World War Expansion
Figures from the Navy League show Canada expanded from eleven fighting ships and under eighteen hundred merchant vessels at war’s start to over three hundred ships and a vast merchant fleet. The shipbuilding industry employs more than forty thousand workers, making it Canada’s largest industry. Navy strength is now about twenty times its war start, with plans for further growth during the war.
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Navy League
Canada
Britain
Navy routes and Canadian sailors praised in war effort
The article notes Canada's navy protecting vast sea lanes from Halifax to Liverpool and Alexandria, and from Vancouver to Melbourne, highlighting routes totaling thousands of miles. It voices gratitude to sailors from across Canada, especially the Prairies, for their role in the Allied victory.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Halifax
Liverpool
Alexandria
Egypt
Murmansk
Russia
Vancouver
Melbourne
Australia
Prairies
United Nations
King Denies Ban on Babies at Investitures
At Buckingham Palace a baby’s cry interrupts an Investiture as officials escort mother and child to an ante room. The King rejects a full ban on children, proposing only that babies not be encouraged at ceremonies to ease disruption while recognizing mothers’ needs. Jamaica remains the only source of pimento or allspice.
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Buckingham Palace
Lord Chamberlain
British News-Review
Veterans Guard of Canada
Canada
Ants as Miners Unearth Gems in New Mexico
Professor Stuart A Northrop of the University of New Mexico says ants mining through volcanic soil in New Mexico bring up garnets and peridots. Stones from ant hills near Fort Defiance on the Navajo reservation are among the finest garnets and gem peridots in the region.
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New Mexico
Stuart A Northrop
University of New Mexico
Northrop
Fort Defiance
Navajo Indian Reservation
Quisling Bans Hymn A Mighty Fortress in Norway
Norwegian authorities under Vidkun Quisling outlaw singing the Lutheran hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. London sources report the ban targets the line about devils filling the world as a deliberate slight toward enemies, reflecting suppression of religious expression during the occupation.
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Pathfinder
Vidkun Quisling
London
Quisling
Training Centres for Canadian Army Officers Expanded
National Defence announces two temporary officers training centres in Three Rivers Quebec and Camp Borden Ontario to meet rising demand for junior officers. Training mirrors Brockville and Gordon Head programs while facilities expand.
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Canada
National Defence Headquarters
Three Rivers
Quebec
Camp Borden
Ontario
Brockville
Ont
Gordon Head
B.C
W. W. Mathers
W. E. Dunbar
Jehovah's Word Dominates Old Testament Verses
The statement notes the word Jehovah appears extensively in the Old Testament. It also references Phoenicians as early major commercial seafarers and traders in ancient maritime history.
Graduates Named From Air Training Plan Stations
List of graduates from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan across multiple schools including No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School Paulson Manitoba No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School Dafoe Saskatchewan No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School MacDonald Manitoba No. 38 Service Flying Training School Estevan Saskatchewan and No. 5 Air Observer School Winnipeg Manitoba. Names span air observers gunners navigators pilots across towns such as Emerson Sliver Park Edmonton Regina Winnipes Winnipeg and more with assignments and statuses noted.
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No. 7
Paulson
Man
G. L. Brevkon
Emerson
Cousins
Sliver Park
Daunhin
G. Martin
No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School
Paulson, Man
Su J. Burwood
Calvary
Alta
JA. Berns
Codworth
Sack
Fnavsen
Regina
F LL. Jacques
Roserav
Jobnet Birds
W. Kolbute
Stoa’tinrn
AL A. McLaren
Fhimonton
C. A. McLeode
BR. Mercer
Clairment
N. RB. Morrison
Deloraine
F. J. O. Perron
Montmartre
S J. Steenson
Marshal
G. F. Thomas
Lac la Nonne
W. O. Watt
Nanton
P. Zelisney
Yorkton
Sask
No 5
Dafoe
Lac
W. F. Burton
Handel
T. Levinsky
Winnipes
F. R. Young
Denzil
No. 3
MacDonald
Forr Behiels
Famonton
Asta
J. A. Coughlin
Saskatoon
A. F. Johnson
Indian Head
W. Moffat
Edmonton
R. W. Rushton
G. S. Auld
Dominion City
R. C. Brooks
Decker
F. Child
Weirdale
Dorman
Alameda
Flewell
Lemsford
H. S. Hicks
Roplenn
R. HW
Hyde
Wawota
Jarvis
Cunar
J. Jorgenson
Scentre
K. W. Lawson
No. 38
Service Flying Training School
R.A.F
Estevan
D. Motherwell
Air Observer School
Winnipeg
J. M. Bartleman
Wolseley
Gems of Thought Reflections on Religion and Conduct
A compilation of moral reflections on how true religion influences daily life and character. Passages emphasize faith guiding conduct, cheerful outlooks, and the idea that devotion shapes perception and actions in ordinary duties.
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Beecher
Banana oil chemistry noted as coal tar product
Banana oil is not derived from bananas or fruit. it is among the numerous substances produced from coal tar.
Selected Recipes and Corn Flake Macaroons
Two dessert items described with ingredients and steps. First, a banana loaf using eggs corn syrup mazola mashed bananas whole wheat and all purpose flour with baking powder soda salt peanuts optional sour milk baked in a leaf pan. Second, corn flake macaroons folding egg whites sugar vanilla coconut and nuts then baked until set yields about one and a half dozen small cookies.
Plastic seals leaks in lifeboats with new pliant binding compound
A new plastic material seals leaks in sinking lifeboats by kneading briefly in the hands, binding and hardening in water. British Merchant Service lifeboats are equipped with the pliant substance, believed to also aid pontoons.
Pride and Defeat Shape Japanese Resolve in War Notes
The article discusses how Japanese pride and the concept of face affect their reaction to losses at Coral Sea and Midway. It explains that pride must be maintained at any cost, influencing plans to retake Guadalcanal and drive back Allied forces, with context from the Chicago Daily News. It also briefly notes there are about 20,000 bird species known today.
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Coral Sea
Midway
Asia
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Chicago Daily News
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Jamaica
Theta
Kenneth Stuart
St. Jerome
Brockville C.O.T.C
Stuart
L'Esterel
Kemptville
University of Toronto
Canadian Army Cadets
Royal Canadian Army Cadets
J. L. Ralston
National Defence
CC. G. M. Grier
West Point United Church
J. Logie Armstrong
O.B.E
M.D. 3
Kingston
Mississaugua
Dan Whetung
Curve Lake
Peterboro
Petawawa
G. W. Askew
Cartwright
O. Clark
R. F. Collins
T. I. Uowin
Transcona
A. R. Watt
M. N. Werbiski
Borketon
William Pen
J. F. Clarke
Anon
Mary Baker Eddy
Schleiiermacher
Lydia E. Winkham
Para Fanes
Aree
Milton
Toronto
Montreal
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