South America Trade Mission Sees Prospects For Trade Developement
Sir George Perley reports on a Canadian Chamber of Commerce led mission to the West Indies and Buenos Aires to boost Empire trade links. Officials met with Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina, with promises of reciprocal visits and a Regina 1932 grain exhibition representation. He urged Canadian manufacturers to pursue direct engagement with South Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Perley
West Indies
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
House of Commons
Sir George Penney
Sir George
Buenos Aires
Prince of Wales
Canadian National Steamships
Dominion
South America
Cuba
Uruguay
Brazil
Canada
Montevideo
Regina
Rio de Janeiro
Bermuda
Shaw Predicts Pidgin English As Future Tongue
English of the Future foretold by George Bernard Shaw at Letchworth Library anniversary. He quips that a Chinese speaker can express himself better than an apologetic Englishman and criticizes poverty while praising libraries and books for shaping speech. He jokes about being king or archbishop yet notes language crosses borders limit fluency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bernard Shaw
Letchworth Library
Shaw
England
Canterbury
War hero’s bushman tale sparks Bethlehem heaven joke
Granville Ryrie, high commissioner for Australia, recalls a bushman remark from the postwar years. In recounting travels during 1914 to 1918 he notes Bethlehem visited, prompting the bushman to quip that Bethlehem must be in heaven. The anecdote highlights Ryrie’s affection for Canada’s sister dominion and his country’s war history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Howard Ferguson
Granville Ryrie
Australia
Canada
Dominion
London
England
Australia Light Horse Brigade
Palestine
Egypt
Bethlehem
Opportunities For Canada Recovery Readiness
Sir Henry Thornton argues in the English Review that Canada faces no alarm despite a slump. He notes Canadian disruption is unnecessary, recovery is certain, and wealth sources remain unimpaired. He predicts large renewed demand from markets Canada relies on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Sir Henry Thornton
English Review
Methuselah Ate What He Found on His Plate
Poem recounts Methuselah eating freely at a long dinner without concern for calories or nutrition. The speaker notes he chewed every kind of food, remained untroubled by health fears, and lived over nine hundred years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methuselah
Swedish Rail Delivers Six-Horse Deluxe Coach
Sweden's state railways built a deluxe six-horse coach at Count Clarence von Rosen's suggestion. The car features padded walls and ceiling, electric lighting and heating for stylish transit between race tracks.
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Clarence von Rosen
Sweden
True Fish Story of British Columbia Salmon Catch 1939
Commercial fishermen report a 1939 BC salmon catch near 37,000,000 fish weighing over 216,000,000 pounds. The tally shows 36,945,948 salmon caught, with five varieties listed: Pinks 23,872,907. Sockeye 5,343,078. Chum 5,114,137. Cohoes 1,207,765. Springs 539,381. plus Bluebacks 727,170 and Steelheads 141,511.
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Department of Fisheries
British Columbia
Policewomen urged for Winnipeg appointment
The Local Council of Women urges Mayor Ralph H. Webb and the police commission to appoint additional policewomen in Winnipeg. They note the current small female presence is inadequate to protect young people on streets and in theatres and cafes and propose patrols of parks by policewomen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Council of Women
Ralph H. Webb
Police Commission
Meaning of Selah and Manchurian Bus Roads
A Sunday school exam asks for the meaning of Selah. A boy answers that it is what David exclaimed when a harp string breaks. In a second item, bus operators in Manchuria must build their own highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Toronto
Mile Language Shifts Across Ages and Great Canadian Figures
A geographer notes that mile as a unit has varied through centuries and places, while language changes with time. In Canada, Toronto students name five living greats, naming Bennett Ferguson Ross King Stewart. editors and pundits differ, with some notable omissions.
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Canada
R. B. Bennett
G. H. Ferguson
W. D. Ross
W. L. M. King
W. J. Stewart
Canadians settle 90 families on land in April says colonization head
T O F Herzer of the Canadian Colonization Association reports April as the best month yet with 90 families settled on land. Among them 82 were returning or previously housed Canadians and sons of farmers, while the rest were new families, despite talk of blue rain and no active recruitment.
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Western
Canada
Canadian Colonization Association
T. O. F. Herzer
Winnipeg
Herzer
London council backs empire timber for city building plan
The general purposes committee of the London county council recommends the London corporation use only Empire timber after August for its five year building program. Brazil reports a 1929-30 coffee crop of 29,074,000 bags. Orchid plants mature very slowly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
General Purposes Committee
London County Council
London Corporation
Empire Timber
Brazil
Manion Defends Churchill Hiring Balance in Manitoba
Minister of Railways and Canals Dr. R. J. Manion replies to Premier Bracken’s protest over Churchill employment. He says only about five per cent of workers at Churchill come from Eastern Canada, with the rest drawn from Manitoba and Saskatchewan or returning workers from last year.
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Churchill
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
R. J. Manion
John Bracken
Canada
Pas
East
Bracken
Manion
Lightweight concrete that rises like bread gains use
A Swedish discovered foam concrete rises with gas bubbles like bread dough and weighs little despite strength. It has been used for floors in a Bethlehem steel mill and in a New York City building after passing Columbia University tests. The material withstood 370 pounds per square inch without denting.
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Bethlehem
New York City
Columbia University
Popular Science
Canada Tobacco Trade For Year End March 1931
Canada imported 16,580,394 pounds of unmanufactured tobacco and 407,715 pounds of manufactured tobacco in the year ending March 31, 1931. It exported 6,892,505 pounds of tobacco. Over 15,000,000 pounds of the imports came from the United States. The British Isles bought nearly 5,000,000 pounds, the best customer for Canadian tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
British Isles
Canadian Armenian Reparations Applications Disallowed
Hon. C. H. Cahan announced in the House of Commons that reparations applications from Armenian residents of Canada linked to the 1915 Turkish massacres have been disallowed. He submitted Commissioner McDougall's report, to be printed for Members of Parliament. A remark urged closing minds to repairs.
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Canada
C. H. Cahan
House of Commons
McDougall
House
Empire Bank scheme to fix silver value at one twentieth of gold
J F Darling of Midland Bank proposed a British Empire led "super bank" to hold all gold and silver, using a new unit Rex as a bookkeeping device to stabilize metals. He urged Canada and Ottawa to back a plan to lift world prices and stabilize currencies, prompting questions from MPs and broad interest.
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Canada
J. F. Darling
London
England
Midland Bank
R. B. Bennett
Banking and Commerce Committee
House of Commons
Darling
Asia
Central and
South America
Ottawa
Bennett
United States
Value Of Forest Products In Canada
The Canadian Government Forestry Service estimates the annual value of forest products at about 500 million dollars with over 200000 people employed in extraction and manufacture. Last year exports exceeded 291 million dollars. Canada has about 3000 saw mills and 108 pulp and paper mills with capital investments of 180 million and 660 million dollars respectively. The saw mills employ around 45000 people and pulp and paper mills about 34000. One line about a humorous quote and a note on Boy Scouts attendance in Brighton, England appears in the excerpt.
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Canada
Forestry Service
Dominion
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Jugend
Munich
British Museum
N. U
Opportunities For
Laura Ingalls
Roosevelt Field
New York
Ruth Nicholls
B.C
Fish
Policewomen
Webb
Sweitzerland
America
William Mulock
Arthur Meighen
Charles Saunders
Marquis Wheat
George E. Foster
N. W. Rowell
B. C
Christina Hall
Canadian Pacific
Glasgow
Discovery
Columbia
Tobacco Industry
Mr. Henpeck
Boy Scouts
Brighton
Journal Amusant
Paris
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