Weed Seed Testing And Air Training Plan Highlight
Farmers urged to test seed purity and germination before planting with home or lab methods. Dominion program offers seed collections and simple tools. teachers encouraged to join seed testing. Air Commodore Ernest Stedman leads Canada’s wartime air training equipment and logistics program. He rose from British service to Canadian aviation leadership guiding construction, inspection, and maintenance of training aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Elliott
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Plant Products Division
Sackville
N.B
Montreal
Ottawa
Toronto
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Calgary
Vancouver
Ernest Walter Stedman
Canada
England
Stedman
Maidstone
Royal Naval Service
France
Norfolk
Handley-Page
Daily Mail
Newfoundland
Alcock
Brown
Handley- Page
New York
Nova Scotia
Red Cross Sends 40 Cases Of Supplies To Overseas Hospitals
Red Cross Headquarters Manitoba Division reports two shipments on May 9 and 10 totaling 40 cases of medical and hospital supplies valued at 5618.80 dollars. Items include abdominal and triangular bandages, pillow cases, bed sheets, wool socks and scarves, seamen’s stockings, bed gowns, and hospital gowns among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Manitoba
Canadians invited to buy 2 cent war savings stamps
Canadians will be invited to purchase 2 cent war savings stamps to aid the Dominion’s war effort. The stamps, similar to thrift stamps, will be sold in post offices banks and nationwide stores and linked to war savings certificates. Over 100000 people are employed in clothing production for England’s new army with shirting material ordered by the mile and shirts by the hundred thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Advance Of Civilization Transforms Lhasa With Modern Amenities
British enterprise facilitates Lhasa’s modernization by installing a telephone and electric light system. Workers haul 1800 cases of machinery over steep tracks to a new generating plant, with equipment supplied by a British electrical firm. The cargo traveled from Darjeeling by rail then along high mountain paths up to 12,000 feet. A Tibetan contract order appeared on rice paper dated the twenty first of the fourth month of the waterbird year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lhasa
Tibet
Darjeeling
Placing The Blame And Wartime Rhetoric
The Niagara Falls Review notes German bombers hit Brussels killing two children while suggesting Lord Haw Haw would blame Winston Churchill for the Athenia sinking. The piece also urges proper tire inflation to save gasoline.
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Niagara Falls
Brussels
Lord Haw Haw
Winston Churchill
Athenia
Senate eyed plan to bring European refugee children to Canada
A proposal to assist immigration of thousands of refugee European children from Britain to Canada is to be considered in the Senate and Commons. Ottawa Senator Catrine Wilson, chair of the national refugee committee, urges creation of an official refugee immigration board to decide the types, numbers and placements of children with funding from public and private subscriptions. The board would operate under government aegis and coordinate with the mines and resources department immigration division.
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Senate
Commons
Great Britain
Canada
England
Catrine Wilson
Ottawa
Canadian National Committee On
Wilson
Dominion
Sir Charles Stead
London
Movement For
Germany
Need For Action
Sir Charles
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Mines and Resources Department
McGill Charter Found After A Century Missing
The 1821 McGill University charter, believed lost for a century, was found in Christ Church Cathedral vaults in Montreal. Bishop Arthur Carlisle presented the document to Principal F Cyril James of McGill by order of the Anglican Synod. James Oliphant located the charter while seeking church property records. The charter will be repaired and preserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGill University
Montreal
Arthur Carlisle
F. Cyril James
Christ Church Cathedral
James Oliphant
Anglican Synod
Carlisle
McGill
Synod
James
Belgium’s Stand Icon in 1914 Mussolini Quote Recalls Defiance
In London circles the reaction to the invasion of the Low Countries is framed by an Italian socialist leader Benito Mussolini from 1914 who praised Belgium for rejecting a German deal. The quote asserts Belgium’s alive stance and refusal of compromise. A note mentions the hummingbird’s tubular tongue for nectar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
London
Low Countries
Benito Mussolini
Crochet Edging Patterns For Household Linen
Pattern 6681 offers twelve crochet motifs from 5 by 15 inches to 2 by 4 inches with a transfer chart and stitch illustrations. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Department in Winnipeg to obtain the pattern. no Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermo
Ave. E
Winnipeg
Alice Brooks
Growth And Extension Of Royal Canadian Navy A Matter Of General Interest
The article outlines rapid expansion of the Royal Canadian Navy during wartime. It notes a fleet of over 220 vessels under Rear Admiral P W Nelles, with 6 000 to 7 000 personnel, and 64 new patrol vessels and 80 minesweepers under construction. It highlights leadership lineage of Admiral Nelles and the Navy’s shift to active convoy and anti submarine duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Canadian Navy
P. W. Nelles
R.C.N
Percy Walker Nelles
RCN
Charles M. Nelles
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Lakefield
Trinity College School
Port Hope
Mons and Mons Again in the News as War Echoes Rise
A 1940 report recalls Mons in Belgium and its long memory of World War I and II. British and French forces crossed the frontier near Mons, echoing 1914 and 1918 events. The piece reflects on townsfolk facing anew the foe and the sense of disillusionment at the sight of a new army in the old theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mons
J. A Clark
Grande Place
Kaiser Wilhelm and Napoleon Echo in Wartime Outlook
The Los Angeles Times argues Kaiser Wilhelm and Napoleon misjudged sea power and urges caution about Germany’s doom. It notes Britain’s fleet dominance could decide the outcome at sea and on land, while odd facts about crawfish and King Mtesa of Uganda appear in the same discusses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Times
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Napoleon
Prussia
Britain
Security Transfer: Dutch Gold and Diamonds Reach Britain
A Guards officer was sent from Britain aboard a destroyer to recover Dutch owned securities before the German advance. Despite bombings and spy activity he escaped Ymuiden with millions in securities. A Dutch diamond merchant also reached a port and returned to Amsterdam and then Britain with a cargo of diamonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Britain
Ymuiden
Amsterdam
Taking No Chances A Soldier Hauls POW With Rope
A British soldier explains dragging a German prisoner by a rope around his body to the officer. He says shell holes filled with water made him fear the prisoner would attempt to scuttle himself.
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Air Training Plan
Canadian Air Board
Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAF
ASLUN
McGill Charter
Alice
Prairie Tomatoes
West
Prairies
Dominion Experimental Station
Morden
Man
RM. Adamson
Halifax
Esquimault
Naval Service
Army
Navy
Admiral Nelles
S. 8S Nelles
Victoria University
Cobourg
Ont
University of Toronto
C M. Nelles
CMG
Royal Canadian Dragoons
King Mtesa
Uganda
Africa
Seraglio
Securities and Diamonds
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