Reform Urged In Education For Canadians
A Canada and Newfoundland Education Association committee led by Dr P Percival recommends postwar reforms with an initial expenditure over 260 million dollars. The plan targets health services, administration, curricula, adult education, and postsecondary access, aiming for long term changes over about 25 years.
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Montreal
Canada
Canada and Newfoundland Education Association
F. Cyril James
McGill University
P. Percival
Quebec
Federal Cabinet
James
Dominion
Direct Payment For Canadians In R.A.F. Units
Canada will cover the cost of maintaining Canadian airmen serving overseas under a new agreement with the United Kingdom. The plan adds 341 million dollars this fiscal year and opens pay offices in London Cairo and Bombay with liaison in Freetown and Algiers.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Power
R.A.F
R.C.A.F
R.af
United Kingdom
RCAF
London
Cairo
Bombay
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Algiers
Ra.f
Vincent Massey
Iceland
Faroe Islands
Gibraltar
Australia
New Zealand
Middle East
Malta
Aden
Iraq
West Africa
North Africa
South Africa
Suthern Rhodesia
India
Ceylon
Burma
China
Canadians Spend Over Three Million on Soviet Relief Supplies
Tass News Agency via Ottawa reports the Canadian fund for relief in the Soviet Union has spent 2 646 000 dollars on medical supplies in Russia. Overall Canadians have contributed 3 022 000 dollars for Russian supplies, with newspapers magazines and radio across the Dominion backing the campaign.
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Moscow
Tass
Ottawa
Canadian Fund For Relief
Soviet Union
Russia
Canada
Dominion
First Woman Consul Named for Canada in New York
Miss K Agnes Mc Closkey named as assistant to Hugh D Scully head of Canada's new consulate general in New York. She is the first woman in the foreign service and has served with the department of external affairs since its infancy and is widely travelled.
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Canada
Foreign Service
K. Agnes McCloskey
Hugh D Scully
Dominion
New York
Miss McCloskey
Department of External Affairs
PFRA projects limit flood damage across prairie
PFRA built 204 dams dugouts and dikes in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta since 1935. No washouts of consequence occurred this spring despite high run off. George Spence director credits PFRA engineers and staff for effective flood control and safety.
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Regina
Prairie Provinces
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act
George Spence
PFRA
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
P.F.R.A
Spence
Gasoline Consumption Totals for Canada in 1942
The munitions department tabled in the House of Commons shows total gasoline use in Canada for 1942 at 26 780 573 barrels, including aviation fuel. It notes 1941 consumption was 27 860 917 barrels and 1940 was 25 208 022, adding that separating motor gasoline data would compromise secrecy of aviation fuel figures.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Munitions Department
J. G. Diefenbaker
Lake Centre
Trans-Atlantic Flight Sets 12 Hour 57 Minute Record
A transport command plane flying from Canada established a new trans-Atlantic air record of 12 hours 57 minutes, beating the previous record by four minutes set a year earlier.
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London
Transport Command
Canada
Canberra Heavy Cruiser Named After Australian Ship
The heavy US cruiser Canberra, named for an Australian cruiser lost near Savo Island last August and for Australia’s capital, was launched as the first US vessel to bear a foreign city name. Lady Dixon sponsored the ship. it honors HMAS Canberra completed in 1928 and sunk off Guadalcanal after a Japanese attack.
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Quincy Mass
Canberra
Australia
Lady Dixon
Sir Owen Dixon
U.S
Savo Island
Guadalcanal
British Officers Not Retired By Age Limit Change
The War Office announced that future British officers will not be removed from the army because of age. The decision reverses the February 1942 order that automatically retired officers over 55. Many retired officers have already returned to service since then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
War Office
Army
Airliner Attacked During Daylight London Lisbon Flight
A daylight attack by German Heinkels on a British passenger airliner en route between London and Lisbon is reported from Lisbon. It marks the first such assault in the war and the incident raises alarm over civilian air travel security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Heinkels
Lisbon
Youngest Canadian Brigadier Promoted in Toronto Officer
Brigadier T. G. Gibson, age 35 from Toronto, is promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier becoming the youngest officer of that rank in the Canadian Army. He takes command of a Canadian infantry brigade overseas and is shown with his brother Brigadier R. M. Gibson, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. Gibson
Toronto
R. M. Gibson
K.C
V.D
National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa
Quisling Meets Hitler at Berchtesgaden
Reports say Vidkun Quisling the Norwegian premier met with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden as part of a continuing set of conferences between Germany and its satellites.
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Europe
Vidkun Quisling
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Germany
Wheat Acreage Payments To Be Sent Out Soon
Regina reports that about 2,000 prairie farmers will receive Wheat Acreage Reduction Act payments held up by a technicality. Federal Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner explains amendments cover 1943 and 1942 rye issues, with a $2 per acre rate for land removed from wheat. He notes prisoner labor is impractical for Saskatchewan farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regina
James G. Gardiner
Hotel Saskatchewan
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Churchill Reveals Darkest Days of 1940 Britain
Churchill described Britain's near total lack of weapons in 1940 during a Dec 10 1942 speech to coal miners and mine owners. He warned invasion was possible then, noted RAF actions at Dunkirk, and forecast increased U boat activity and a future air war with Axis bonuses.
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Dominion
London
Britain
Churchill
Hitler
Dunkirk
R.A.F
Channel
Pearl Harbor
Italy
Germany
Europe
France
London aircraft output rises sharply as war effort grows
Production in Britain reaches record scale with a 55 percent increase in overall aircraft structure and weight and a 3.5 fold rise in bomber output, confirmed by Aircraft Production Minister Sir Stafford Cripps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Stafford Cripps
Gas threat remains real says Morrison at defense show
London. Herbert Morrison warns at a civil defence exhibition that the enemy may still use gas and stresses constant attention to masks and anti-gas gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Herbert Morrison
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