Trade With Britain Brings Hope for Canada’s Exports
The article notes Britain's expected 50 percent rise in Canadian purchases over the next year, reasserting a traditional market for grain and raw materials. It discusses Britain’s dollar shortage and Canada’s role in supporting British purchasing power, while also acknowledging Britain’s past difficulties and Canada’s shift toward the United States as a key export destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Britain
Sterling
Efort
British Automobil
United States
Great Britain
Forecast Good Duck Hunting In Manitoba Forecast Good Duck Hunting In Manitoba
Breeding condition for waterfowl in Manitoba and the west is generally good, said B W Cartwright of Ducks Unlimited Canada. The US Fish and Wildlife Service notes lower breeding populations this year, but Manitoba’s nesting conditions should yield good hunting along the Mississippi flyway next fall, with ducks also coming from eastern Saskatchewan.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
B. W. Cartwright
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Albert M. Day
US. Fish and Wildlife Service
Mississippi
Saskatchewan
Ducks nesting sight reported at Waterhen lake Kinistino
Judge McKim notes successful nesting of ducks Canada geese and Franklin gulls at Waterhen lake near Kinistino as part of a canoe survey. He observes that while it rarely becomes so cold as to snow it can still snow in flakes.
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Melfort
Sask
McKim
Ducks Cessful
Waterhen Lake
Kinistino
Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue Advert
Needleworkers asked to send twenty five cents for the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue from the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Toronto. Includes illustrations of crochet knitting embroidery and other handwork and features a free pattern. The note mentions Columbus discovery cost for Spain about seven thousand dollars.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
America
Spain
Fragmented humor and anecdotes from a late issue
A collection of short humorous snippets and dialogue scenes featuring spinster sisters, waiting staff, a flirtatious driver, a man in an asylum, and a jokey fatherly exchange. The clipped pieces lampoon daily life and social quirks, ending with a note on airline maintenance costs.
Fattening Heifers In Six Months at UBC Study
University of British Columbia scientists test a new feed from grain elevator waste and whale by products to cut cattle finishing time from 24 to about 18 months. Four test groups show weight gains from hay only to three pounds daily with the new feed, aiming for 900 to 1,000 pounds by late summer.
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Vancouver
B.C
University of British Columbia Agriculture
A. N. Wood
U.B.C
Victor Spencer
Earls Court
Lytton
Wood
Prairies Receive Nearly Twenty-Five Million Defence Contracts
Ottawa reports defence spending rising in the prairies under the air training plan. In the last fiscal year Saskatchewan saw April orders near 500000 and May contracts by Defence Construction Limited exceeding 4000000, addressing west region complaints.
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Prairies
Ottawa
Canada
C. D. Howe
Saskatchewan
Defence Construction Limited
Mr. Howe
West
Indians Say Farewell To Archdeacon Middleton At Cardston
Ven Samuel H Middleton archdeacon of Lethbridge retires after 41 years serving Blood Indians in southern Alberta. He leaves posts at St Pauls Cardston St Thomas Cardston and All Saints Waterton and will keep the archdeacon title by bishop approval. Chief Joe Bull Shields voices sadness as the last sermon ends beside a stream.
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Waterton
Alberta
Samuel H. Middleton
Lethbridge
The
Bloods
Archdeacon Middleton
St. Paul's Anglican Church
Hole-in-One Scored at Jasper Park Lodge Course
Leslie MacLachlan, a Jasper village jeweller, achieved the first hole-in-one in two years while playing in a four-some at the famed Jasper Park Lodge golf course in Alberta.
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Jasper Park Lodge
Alta
Leslie MacLachlan
Jasper Village
Lynn Lake Rail Line Approved
OTTAWA The Commons approved in principle a 155 mile Canadian National Railways line to tap Lynn Lake nickel copper ore. The $14 725 000 project runs from Sherriden Manitoba to Lynn Lake with $100 million construction costs funded by the federal government to aid defence production.
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Ottawa
Commons
Canadian National Railways
Lynn Lake
Man
House
Sherriden
Sherritt-Gordon Nining My 18
Shermiden
Cnroas
Chevrier
Leal
CNR
Sherritt-Goerdan
Edmonton
Miss Flagpole Sitter of 1951 Chosen in Medicine Hat
British war bride Vera Allen, 29, from Ottawa, selected as Medicine Hat's Miss Flagpole Sitter of 1951. She will remain atop a 50 foot pole in front of city hall for two weeks to promote the stampede, then be lifted by helicopter to the grounds. Thunder is described as the loudest common noise.
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Medicine Hat
Alta
Vera Allen
Ottawa
City Hall
Bamboo Classified as Grass By Scientists
Bamboo rated as grass by scientists noting that RATED AS GRASS Bamboo commonly reaches about 40 feet in height.
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Rock
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Jeannie
Alfred
Francis
Korea
Central Press
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Richard Ragg
Calgary
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By Chuck Thurston
Hollywood
Kitten
Gregory Peck
Peggy
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