Canada's Navy and the Battle for Safe Sea Lanes
The 1940s wartime record shows Canada expanding a small navy into a vital force keeping Atlantic and Pacific routes open. Destroyers Saguenay Fraser Margaree Assiniboine and others faced collisions and battles, sinking ships, while Ottawa built more vessels and aided Britain. Canadian sailors evacuated Dunkirk and aided rescues as planes and escorts fought U boats and raiders.
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Saguenay
Atlantic
Royal Canadian Navy
Britain
Bordeaux
North Atlantic
Fraser
Canadian
Canada
Army
Air Force
Great Britain
Pacific
Assiniboine
West Indies
Italy
St. Lawrence
Bras d'Or
Weser
Mexico
Prince Robert
Dunkirk
United States
Carnegie grants total 67000 to 14 Canadian universities
Carnegie Corporation of New York has voted more than $67 000 in grants to 14 Canadian universities and associations. Stephen H Stackpole announced the awards. One grant of 2500 goes to the Canadian Association for Adult Education for extension services the programme of the Community Life Training Institute. No one knows exactly why cement.
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
Stephen H. Stackpole
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Community Life Training Institute
Ruddy Ducks Population Up After Two-Year Rise
The prairie migratory bird officer notes an upward trend in ruddy ducks over the past two years with a notable increase in Summer 1940. A single flock of 47 adults and immatures was observed at Goosequill Lake in Alberta, signaling easing drought impacts and a shift from previous declines since 1929.
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Prairie Migratory Bird Officer
Department of Mines and Resources
Goosequill Lake
Alberta
Great Slave Lake
Northwest Territories
Great Plains
Prairie
Sunflower Picked in Sittingbourne Stirring Question
A sunflower over seventeen inches across was picked in Sittingbourne England prompting questions about a course in ship scuttling required in German naval and merchant marine schools.
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Sittingbourne
England
Sympathetic Listeners Aid Bombed-Out Citizens in Britain
In England the bomb bores will find sympathetic female audiences. The Marchioness of Reading, chair of the Women's Voluntary Service, announced in Preston that W V S will provide listeners for bombed residents. Birmingham reports a Birmingham District Bombers Association formed by those with similar tales. Lady Reading urged listeners to give full attention to speakers, avoiding any withdrawal of interest.
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England
Marchioness of
Reading
Women's Voluntary Service
Preston
Lancashire
Birmingham
Sleeping car staff include university students and grads
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes that porters and other sleeping and chair car staff are often university students or graduates. One Canadian sleeping-car conductor holds a Bachelor of Engineering, and a sleeping-car porter on the Toronto Sudbury runprepares sermons for a Sunday London Ontario congregation.
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Brockville Recorder
Times
Toronto-Sudbury
London
Ont
Misspelling Sparks Weather Jibe in Class
A student mispells weather as W-e-t-t-h-e-r drawing a teacher remark about the worst spell of weather in a year. The quip frames a classroom exchange on spelling and climate.
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Willie
Vast caribou herd trudges south toward Churchill coast
Hudson Bay Railway worker Joe Baker recalls a 1940 migration of 10 000 to 15 000 caribou marching 11 miles long and two miles wide from northern Manitoba toward Churchill with timber wolves trailing and one foreman escaping a wolf pack by climbing a telegraph pole. Ostrich plumes also mentioned in boom era.
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Manitoba
Churchill
Joe Baker
Hudson Bay Railway
Winnipeg
Gillam
Man
Baker
John Zword
Zword
Stripes Are New Note In Afghans Crochet Pattern 6505
Two color afghan with herringbone effect in simple rib stitch offered in pattern 6505. Suitable for beginners and experienced crocheters. includes directions, illustrations, materials, and color schemes. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern. no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
League of British Nations Spreads Culture and War Effort
The article praises British tanners for a 1940 output surge supplying 20 million pairs of boots and 400000 pairs per week for service use. It notes 60 overseas ports sourcing hides and Argentinian cattle, Brazil, Uruguay, and Colombia contributions, and frames imperial unity as a league of autonomous nations aiding the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
South America
Argentina
Uruguay
Colombia
Brazil
Atlantic
Lathor Tanners Association
Prosperity in Iceland Reported by Seamen Aboard Hekla
Seamen aboard the Hekla report booming business in Iceland with 80,000 British and Canadian soldiers guarding the island and a surge in fish meal exports. They note full employment among about 130,000 Icelanders and a metropolitan feel in Reykjavik while wartime rationing shifts meat and dairy exports to Britain.
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Iceland
Hekla
Britain
Brain Bank Proposed by US Scientist at AAAS Meeting
Dr. K. A. C. Elliott of the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital urged the creation of a brain bank in the western hemisphere to preserve world learning during a coming dark age. He said western nations must safeguard scientists and laboratories, preserve literature and research material, and foster continued international exchange of scientific brain power.
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Western Hemisphere
United States
American Association For the Advancement of Science
K. A. C. Elliott
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Elliott
Australia to produce 9 million shells annually in war effort
Australia plans to run munition factories on two and three shifts daily, aiming for 9,000,000 shells of various sizes each year. Some people feel dissatisfied with current conditions, while others envy what they do not have. Industrial Manchester in England yielded over 400 tons of potatoes from park land last year.
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Great Britain
Britain
Wesminister
Dominions
Canada
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Japan
South Africa
Manchester
England
Danish Soap Rationing Forces Tough Choice for Bachelors
National restrictions limit households to about 14 ounces of soap per week per person and reduce soap use in laundries barber shops and public baths to 75 percent of normal. A single cake of hand soap or a shaving stick becomes the only option for many.
Noisy Corner on 6th Avenue and 24th Street
The world's noisiest street corner is said to be at 6th avenue and 24th street in New York City. The noise is described as so intense that a normal person becomes two thirds deaf for as long as he stands there.
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6Th Avenue
24Th Street
New York City
Formosa trees yield rice paper for oriental art
Taxidermists use ants to remove flesh from small animals for skeletons. Rice paper, valued by Oriental artists, comes from the pith of a Formosan tree.
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Formosa
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Ark Royal
Royal Navy
Rio de Janeiro
Admiralty
Oran
Africa
High Command
la Linea
Gibraltar
Cagliari
Sardinia
Sard Nia
Carnegie
Prairie Provinces
Jimmie
Tho
Count Felix von Luckner
Sydney
von Luckner
League of British Nations
British Isles
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