Fighting Canada's Battles In Northern Manitoba And Saskatchewan Bushlands
A detailed look at Flin Flon Manitoba mining town life shows worker governance through the Employees Welfare Board, annual medical care, first aid bonuses, and year round mining with promotions from muckers to foremen. It explains jobs from bull gang to underground trades, town demographics, schools, and civic life in Flin Flon as a thriving mining community.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Finn Flon
Ftn
Khasah
Robert Service
Yukon
Lou
Flin Flon
Welfare Board
National Safety Council of America
St. John Ambulance Association
World Happenings Briefly Told
Alberta reported fur sales exceeding five million dollars with mink leading at about 1.7 million. A Glasgow seaman delayed a blood donor date by three months after being torpedoed. Churchill’s wife said the Aid to Russia Fund reached 4.5 million pounds. Canada had 72 milk product plants in 1942. Over 2,567 POWs were employed in Canada’s timber and related work. Britain held 357,630 Italian POWs as of November 15. Calcutta opened a new airgraph filming station and Bengal Assam Bihar Orissa service. The US Army cut discharge paperwork to a single document for returning soldiers to civilian life.
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Calcutta
Bengal
Assam
Bihar
Orissa
Supply Depot Built In Britain For American Army In Record Time
A Royal Engineers team transformed 200 acres of farmland into a massive supply depot for the American Army in Britain. In ten weeks they created tarred sheds, 14 miles of railways, and seven miles of roads, a feat that would typically take a year in peacetime.
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Royal Engineers
Britain
Sis
London Daily Telegraph
Wise Men Seek Infant Jesus in Bethlehem
Sunday School lesson recounts the Wise Men from the East following a star to Bethlehem to greet the infant Jesus. Herod reacts with fear, the Magi worship with gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh, then depart by a different route after a divine warning. Mathematics origins noted with Thales in Greece.
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Jesus
Herod the Great
Bethlehem
Judea
Matthew
Caspar
Melchair
Balthazar
Kepler
Arabia
Persia
Herod
Jerusalem
Mathematics
Greece
Thales
Unknown historical aluminum and mahogany road base method
The article notes that in Guiana a highway or base was built using aluminum ore and mahogany substances as the cheapest materials. It mentions Australia’s first wheat stations at Cockatoo in 1839, where rock-cut bottles shaped forms were created.
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Australia
Cockatoo
Royal Navy Stops German Imports in Wartime Effort
Britain reports Royal Navy action severely limiting German imports from pre war sources. Figures show sharp reductions in cotton, maize, ash, and natural phosphates while the blockade seeks to choke vital supply lines. Chinese records on banana cultivation are noted as historical aside.
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Great Britain
Germany
Royal Navy
Crosswords Puzzle Fill In With Names And Clues
Readable crossword style puzzle items list with numbered horizontal and vertical clues including objects languages months animals metals and household terms. Contains hints like Hawaiian food weeded by symbols and unusual spellings.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ik Wet
Manitoba Chamber of Mines
Flin Fion
Employees Control Welfare Board
Ality
Fin Fien
Peg
St. Boniface
Brandon
Flin Flow
Surface and Transportation Department
Bull Gang
Man
Alberta
Mink
Glasgow
BBC
Churchill
Labor Department
War Office
United Kingdom
Dominions
United States Army
By Fred Neher
Gene Byrnes
Reg'lar
Matos Ans Road
Datoh
Guiana
Taitch
Prom
Athena
France
Ireland
Reypt
Sword
Clamor
Symbo Tor
Tellurium
Leo
CME
Manhattan
By William Ferguson
Argentestines
Reg
Pat
Jimmie Lynch
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