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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1951
Page
2
The article discusses Canada's national consciousness and the role of domestic capital in developing natural resources and industries. It notes Canadians study abroad for better opportunities, while foreign investors often fund growth, creating employment but prompting calls for more Canadian investment and initiative at home.
The piece highlights oil development in Alberta irrigation and land rehab on the prairies forest preservation and power projects in British Columbia and eastern provinces and urges growth in mining farming and engineering. It emphasizes vast mineral resources rising world food demand and calls for workers with faith in Canada's future.
In Alberta a government program allocates 15 690 beaver for fur production this year. A conservation plan issues 914 trapping permits to farmers, with quotas set per property from Peace River to Crows Nest Pass. Farmers may sell pelts.
A 250000 dollar gas processing plant on Edmonton’s eastern edge, first in Canada, is now operating. It will mix Leduc area gas piped from Devon with Viking Kinsella field gas to serve increased Edmonton demand and adjust for differing gas compositions. Daily flow totals about 26 million cubic feet, with winter peaks over 100 million. The Viking Kinsella field had supplied Edmonton since 1923.
Air Vice Marshal C R Dunlap of Sydney Mines N S moves from North West Air Command to head the newly formed Air Defence Command based at St Hubert Quebec. The former Air Defence Group becomes a command responsible for Eastern Canada fighter squadrons and for regulating radar aircraft control and warning activities.
Bella Bella, British Columbia. Mrs. Mary Hall of Bella Bella and the Native Sisterhood of BC say Indian women fishery workers netmakers and menders are on strike to demand equal voice in bargaining with the Native Brotherhood and in decisions affecting coast fishing. They seek voting rights and parity with men in industry affairs.
In the Dawson Creek area McDame Creek, 60 miles west of the Alaska highway, development activity increases on an asbestos find. Company sources report samples valued as high as 12.50 dollars per ton.
Excelsior Refineries Ltd in cooperation with Wilrich Petroleums Ltd and associates announces a large scale Lloydminster development. The plan targets 60 wells with 40 drilled this year as the refinery expands to meet demand for heavy Lloydminster crude. The field lies on the Alberta Saskatchewan border and existing output includes 30 wells, while refinery capacity has more than doubled from about 1200 barrels daily.
A patrol of jokes and lines from a humor feature includes an asylum patient joking about becoming a lawyer or actor after cure, a child’s prayers asking Cyril to stop throwing stones, dialogue snippets about work and school, and punchlines from stage and everyday life. The crisp bits reflect early 20th century witty cataloging of society’s quirks.
Six month old William Ward of Toronto choked after the nipple of his bottle became lodged in his throat. Five department officials reported the baby found unconscious in his crib with the bottle nipple in his mouth and later rescued. A half dollar coin was removed from a 10 year old girl’s throat, Carolyn McEachern of Portland swallowing the coin but remaining none the worse per hospital.
Mrs. Robert Weatherill runs a 150 acre farm and heads the family while her husband serves in Korea. She cares for eight children and bakes twenty loaves of bread weekly in spare time.
Ottawa projects 800000 new homes by 1960 lifting total housing units to 4 000 000 yet economist Dr J Firestone warns many families will still double up. He says about 477000 households supplement living arrangements and could exceed 500000 by 1960. Firestone advises Central Mortgage & Housing Corp. analysis.
Joe Oullette wrote a message to youths from Oakalla prison death cell before execution for killing two Chinese market gardeners. He warns against crime, recalls early thefts, urges honest work, condemns guns and toughness, and asks readers to live an honest life.
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