The Future of Canada Across the Vast Northern Continent
The piece surveys Canada’s geography and population, noting vast lands from Atlantic to Pacific and northward, sparse density under three per square mile, a 1931 census of 10.38 million rising to 11.42 million in 1941, and emigration to the United States. It urges renewed use of untapped resources and enhanced development via air travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion of Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Arctic Circle
United States
Europe
Asia
Canada Entering a New Era of Prosperity and Expansion
The article argues that after a decade of economic strain Canada now benefits from war driven growth. It notes renewed output in wheat and other goods, reduced imports, new mineral discoveries, and rising self sufficiency. Calls for initiative and national unity to capitalize on opportunities as the senior Dominion.
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Canada
Elk Island Park Home of the Buffalo in Alberta
Elk Island National Park in Alberta reports a thriving wildlife season with no losses. The buffalo herd exceeds 1,100 head, joined by 545 elk and 144 moose, along with mule deer and other local wildlife. The area is gaining recognition as a bird sanctuary.
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Elk Island National Park
Alberta
Buffalo National Park
Wainwright
Elk Island
Edinburgh landlord’s compliment to Charles Matthews
An Edinburgh landlord who rarely attends public meetings asked the famed actor for a pass to the playhouse. Matthews performed Sir Coldstream in Used Up and Plummer in Cool as a Cucumber, earning the landlord’s high praise. The man said he enjoyed the entertainment greatly and could hardly keep from laughing. The Egyptian coast line length is given as 1,300 geographical miles.
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Charles Matthews
Edinburgh
Kirk
Playhouse
Scot
Matthews
Sir Coldstream
Plummer
Aweel
Churchill on wheels praised by Rhodesian railway workers
Southern Rhodesia’s Umtali railway shops name a Switch engine after Churchill for driving power and rugged look. Workers plan to name a mainline locomotive after the Prime Minister, while noting that strategy is plan and tactics are rushed after discovery of failed strategy.
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Southern Rhodesia
Churchill
Umtali
Saving a Bolt by Cutting Track Standards Around the Nation
On a railroad walk EF Herrman notes track bolts protrude past nuts as common practice. He calculates about eighteen thousand miles of track with fifty million bolts and proposes shaving an ounce from each bolt to save fifty million ounces of iron, urging a standard belt change.
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Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Christian Science Monitor
Gems of Thought on Power and Justice
A collection of quotes on power and justice by Pascal Bulwer-Lytton Eddy Bacon Jefferson Vanderlip. The selections argue that true power requires justice, self restraint, and fair exercise, linking authority to moral restraint and liberty.
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Francis Bacon
Thomas Jefferson
General challenged for salute by Australian soldier
A tense exchange unfolds as a general demands recognition from an Australian who forgets to salute. The Australian quips that a general who cannot recall his own name is something good for the boys. The remark adds a wry note on authority and memory amid a scene of wartime banter. The narrative ends with a sly aside about birds with beautiful appearances but harsh voices.
All Bran Prune Bars and Nuggets Recipes Featured
Thrifty homemakers are offered All Bran Prune Bars and All Bran Prune Nuggets recipes. Ingredients include All Bran prunes milk flour butter eggs honey dates prune juice and spices. Instructions cover soaking mixing baking times yields and serving ideas for bars and cookies.
The Individual Citizens Army A wartime column by Alan Inwin on duty and civic duty.
The column urges righteous indignation at waste and urges citizens to support war effort by practical acts. It discusses golf clubs as unnecessary wartime waste, ARP service, and wartime prices controls affecting small stores, urging people to shop locally, combine purchases, and support the war by intelligent consumer choices. It notes Nazis purging Polish bookstores of national life books.
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R.S.M
A.R.P
Prices and Control Board
Poland
Air Training Plan graduates listed from BCATP schools
A list of individuals who graduated under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan from No. 5 Bombing and Gunnery School at Dafoe Saskatchewan No. 5 and No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery Schools in Manitoba and Alberta includes air observers air gunners and sergeants with hometowns such as Deomremgy Sask Meeting Creek Alta Watrois Sask Irma Alta Brune Sask Luseland Sask Elbow Sask Redwater Alta and others. The compilation notes names from various towns including Carmack? and Okotoks with service roles and station designations.
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British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
No. 5
Dafoe
Sask
LASL
I. Boyes Deomremgy
G. J. Broughton
Meeting Creek
Alta
G. F. Cornwell
Watro Is
Lac
EAC
Smith
Elbow
Lac A
Wilson
Air Gunners
Daceatiaitese Cadogan
W. FE. Ashford
Watson
WL. W. Cameron
Evarts
D. A. Fraser
Pitot Mound
Man
J. ©. Friazell
Red Deer
M. G. H. Hofford
Toro
D. M. McMurchy
Reston
H. J. Vincent
Canora
Remote control used in Canadian explosives plant
The article notes remote control devices used to bundle and lie cordite at a Canadian explosives plant. It also cites two paper machines involved in these operations and comments on Adolf Hitler’s increasing jitters since taking power, arguing his frantic state highlights his current jumpiness.
Canadian incomes limited by proposed cap would affect few
The Edmonton Journal notes a 25000 post tax ceiling, resembling UK and Roosevelt plans, would affect fewer than 400 of Canadians. Official 1940-41 figures show 473 earned 50000 or more, with fewer than 400 above 60000.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Roosevelt
United States
Edmonton Journal
Postwoman in London Again Serves During War Time
Mrs F E Ross serves a second wartime term as a London postwoman. She previously held the job in the First World War and during the blitz last year she rescued two women and three children and tended wounded during an all night raid before resuming letter deliveries at daybreak. The text also notes the railway bug a tropical insect named for a red head light.
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F. E. Ross
London
Britain
Sun Observation Notes on Gna Rotation Period
An old note states the sun completes a revolution in 25 days, revealing all sides of Gna over a full cycle. The statement implies a slow, uniform rotation and facial exposure across the planet over time.
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Hitler
Approford
Peragcuc
Hamilton
Toronto
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