Canada Faces Postwar Slowdown In 1945-46 Recovery Path
Canadian Press notes 1945 ended with a mixed recovery as war end shifts hit industry. Output eased about 15 percent from 1944, while unemployment rose with 100,000 more workers than jobs and 350,000 war workers plus 250,000 discharged servicemen entering the labor market. Trade and production varied across sectors, with newsprint, textiles, and building showing gains and mining, lumber, and metals facing shortages and adjustments. Exports fell about six to nine percent year over year amid adjustments to peacetime demand.
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Alex Pringle
Europe
Japan
Canada
Mascots of War Spotlight on Dickin Medal Animals
BBC program profiles allied forces mascots including Dorothea St Hill Bourne of the PDSA Mascot Club. Notable entries: Barney the donkey, Bizerta Charlie later Charloote the goose, Group Captain Goat, Adelbert the dog, Nikki the vixen, Cressida the kestrel, Otto the dachshund, Bob and Rifleman Kahn, and SAS collie Bob. Dogs go to Royal Veterinary Corps quarantine before returning home.
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BBC
Dorothea St. Hill Bourne
P.D.S.A
People’s
Allied Forces Mascot Club
Imperial War Museum
London
Dickin
Animals’ V.C
Barney
R.A.F
P.ds.a
Bizerta
Charlie
Goat
Ds.o. M.C
Air Force
Belgium
Adelbert
HM. S. Orwell
Nikki
Salonica
Cressida
Gestapo
England
Otto
Bob
Rifleman
Kahn
Special Air Service
Britain
Royal Veterinary Corps
Baler with Pickup Aids Haying at Indian Head Farm
A baler with a pickup attachment has been used at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Indian Head Sask for two years. It bales hay directly from windrows reducing heavy labour and improves hay quality by lowering leaf loss from less handling.
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Dominion Experimental Farm
Indian Head
Sask
Sand Powers The Rails In Slippery Weather
Railroads rely on coal oil and water but in icy weather they depend on sand. The article notes pipes ahead of the driving wheels that pour sand onto rails to prevent slips and cites an Eastern railroad using 38 000 tons of sand last year to stay on schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Eastern
Rare Sowers Grow in Four Nations Says Expert
The lotus described as one of the rarest Sowers grows in just four countries Egypt China United States and Canada. It notes that certain animals can retract their eyes back into their sockets for protection.
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Egypt
China
United States
Canada
Frogs Among War Assets Corp Surplus Items in Canada
War Assets Corporation announced disposal of 75 South African frogs to the Department of Health Ontario for use in the Ottawa laboratory. Frogs supported Royal Canadian Air Force experiments at Rockcliffe Station, needing 70 degree temperatures, joining other surplus items like horses sled dogs and pigs sold to support wartime efforts.
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Canada
War Assets Corporation
Department of Health
Province of
Ontario
Ottawa
South Africa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Rockcliffe Station
British Columbia
United State Forces
Northwest Territories
U.S
Dominion
Yukon
R.C.A.F
Newfoundland
Royal Air Force Group
Record Low To High Temperatures At Verhoyansk
At Verhoyansk Siberia temperatures ranged from 90 degrees below zero to 94 above the zero mark marking extreme cold and heat extremes for the region.
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Verhoyansk
Siberia
Earth
Incense Resins Olibanum Myrrh and Benzoe Roles
Olibanum or true frankincense comes from Boswellia trees in Africa, southern Arabia, and India. Myrrh is produced by balsamodendron species in the same regions. Benzoe from Styrax benzoin grows in Indo-China and the Eastern Archipelago and is used worldwide in religious incense, cosmetics in India and China, and in Japan mixed with tobacco.
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Africa
Arabia
India
Indo-China
China
Japan
Arctic Institute Aims Arctic Research Stations by 1946
The Arctic Institute of North America announces plans to use one or more research stations by end of 1946. It is negotiating to obtain surplus U S and Canadian army gear for researchers including Arctic clothing skis and oversnow vehicles.
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Arctic Institute of North America
Montreal
United States
Canada
Canadian servicemen marry Dutch girls demand rises
Army headquarters reports receiving 40 requests daily for permission to marry Dutch girls as Canadian service men in Holland balance duties with personal lives amid wartime occupation.
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Canada
Holland
Army
Chinese Couple Weds in Niagara Falls Honeymoon Capital
Sien Tsin Hu and Miss Kwang Ting Chow, both studying for doctorates in the United States, married on Christmas Day in Niagara Falls New York after a five year courtship. They delayed the wedding to honor a traditional in China, then planned further study at Harvard and Columbia before returning to aid China. They received scholarships from Chiang Kai Shek and later held a reception in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara
China
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Sien Tsin Hu
Kwang Ting Chow
United States
Miss Chow
Stanford University
California
University of Illinois
Chiang Kai-Shek
Canada
Harvard
Columbia University
Dominion Experimental Farms Boost Canada Through Agriculture
The annual report highlights the Dominion experimental farms led by W. R. Leslie at Morden. It outlines vegetable breeding, earlier maturing varieties, disease resistance, irrigation benefits, and higher yields from irrigated plots. It also covers seed production, acid seed cleaning, orchard improvements, hybrid roses, corn, sunflowers, and cereal breeding, plus poultry gains and wide national efforts.
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Dominion Experimental Farms
Canada
Minister of Agriculture
Dominion
W. R. Leslie
Morden
Scout
South Dakota
Sing
Manchuria
Ottawa
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Perfume Bottle Shaped Building Planned on Broadway
A building shaped like a perfume bottle is planned on Broadway with a liveable penthouse stopper and a sign featuring growing flowers. Passersby would be sprayed with various scents as construction by an perfume firm proceeds. The column imagines future architecture featuring vehicles, foods, and other items, forecasting a flamboyant building boom.
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Broadway
Owen Sound Sun-Times
Crochet Gloves Pattern 7152 from Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Instructions explain two color crocheted gloves in continuous rows with top and palm in contrasting colors. Pattern 7152 includes directions and stitches. Send twenty cents in coins to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Ex-servicemen form salvage firm to recover Cape cargo
In Cape Town a salvage company of ex servicemen plans to recover cargo lost in Union waters during the war. They aim to start in February or March on a wreck near Cape Town containing about £2,000,000 worth of cargo, equivalent to $9,000,000.
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Cape Town
South Africa
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