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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1945
Page
6
In wartime Canada the home front shapes victory through fuel rationing, Red Cross work, and support for troops. The piece honors donors, hospital visitors, war plant workers, farmers, housewives, and transport and public service staff whose sacrifices sustain morale and supply lines.
Trucks laden with equipment will depart Grimshaw Alberta this winter to the Great Slave Lake area. The 385 mile route, once a tractor trail in 1939, links riches in the North including metals, gold and oil. Bulldozers clear the snow and maintain the frozen highway for fast winter movement.
The Canadian leather industry reached a record output of 44,773,000 dollars in 1943, up 2,566,000 or six percent from the prior year. Ontarios plants produced 39,132,892 dollars, 87 percent of the national total, with Quebec at 4,725,857 dollars and the remaining provinces making up the rest.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture issues an order restricting dogs from Europe Asia and Africa to quarantine at Halifax Saint John Quebec City Vancouver and Victoria for six months at owners expense. Dogs from Great Britain Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State enter Canada with a certificate and no quarantine.
A compilation of quotes on natural justice authority and leadership from Cousin Proverbs Shakespeare and Eddy. The excerpts emphasize righteous rule impartiality and the challenge of gaining hearts while warning against overuse of power.
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry reports a new method to extract tannin from Western hemlock bark. Due to chestnut blight, American tannin sources are depleted and a domestic supply is urged. Researchers E F Potter K T Williams T L Swenson and I C Feustel of the Western Regional Research Laboratory describe using a horn angle hydraulic press on bark from floated logs at Pacific Northwest pulping centers. Warriors of ancient China and Peru are noted as early nickel users.
London sources indicate Britain plans no mass migration scheme but seeks renewed pre war agreements with Dominions for individual emigration. An interdepartmental panel studies exchange and labor exit permit issues while ensuring Britons abroad keep social security credits. Most Canadian wheat now rust resistant.
An American Merchant Marine Institute study finds air cargo rose sharply while ships moved far more mass per distance. For every air passenger 1000 traveled by sea. ships carry much more cargo per mile. Postwar shift may favor ships for cost efficiency and carrying valuable materiel.
Massachusetts legislators hear a petition by H Vance Greenslit descendant of Ann Greenslade to reverse the 1692 Salem hanging of Ann Pudeator and potentially include Bridget Bishop Susanna Martin Alice Parker Wilmot Read and Margaret Scott along with others whose convictions were reversed earlier.
By year end British yards likely start work on more than 20 super passenger liners including Mauretania class designs. Shipowners scarce after war plea look at 15 000 to 25 000 ton ships while later years may see one or two Queen Mary type vessels. Sir Robert Johnson of Cammell Laird says builders are receiving orders or inquiries for new passenger lines.
Canadian Red Cross estimates about 26,000 Canadian soldiers overseas have married British girls and will bring wives to Canada. Canadian National Railways has hosted 3,000 war brides and 1,500 children, running 20 special trains since 1943. The trains are called homes on wheels with baby clothes lines aboard.
Britain has returned the naval base at Diego Suarez in northern Madagascar to the French navy which plans to use it in the war against Japan. Diego Suarez was captured by British forces during the 1942 invasion of Madagascar.
Hon. Robert S. Hudson told a Guelph audience that Britain expects postwar cheese and butter markets to grow beyond prewar levels though supply sources are uncertain. He warned rationing may persist until 1949 and urged boosting cow production by 100 gallons per cow annually without more cattle. Hudson praised Canada for wartime food and machinery aid and noted Britain’s mechanization gains.
The Empire Hope with Waimarama and Wairangi faced heavy air and sea attacks after leaving Gibraltar on Aug 8. Despite 18 near misses and two direct hits that set cargoes alight, the ship escaped destruction while its sister ships went down in the same engagement with minimal casualties.
The Vancouver Daily Province notes the final tie in a Penticton south branch now makes Osoyoos a Canadian Pacific station. Once a cattle range, the area’s fertile river valley supports early fruit maturity and growing orchards. With rising production and population, the railway line completes a long‑planned goal for Osoyoos.
Jefferson Davis Jackson, a long serving janitor at the University of Alabama Museum of Natural History and Geological Survey, asked for rest and was approved for a three month unpaid leave after officials confirmed fifty years of continuous service.
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