The Cashless Drive and Royal Trust Gold Card
A Canadian financier discusses the shift from paper money to electronic payments and credit. He notes consumer acceptance, concerns about currency devaluation and debt, and highlights Royal Trusts new gold card with 1 percent discount but high interest dynamics. He cites PowerLine from Canada Trust as an example of growing lines of credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallup
Royal Trust
American Express
Amex
Canada Trust
Prairie Women Break Barriers In North American Press
A Canadian reader reviews reports on remarkable prairie women who lead in business and trades. Gladys Taylor, at 69, runs a 50-employee operation earning over a million dollars, tours nationally promoting Alone In The Australian Outback, and once drove solo 11 000 miles across Australia in 55 days. Other features profile female editors, doctors, lawyers, farmers, and truckers, plus a 37 000 pound Mennonite rock honoring pioneer women and a cookbooks success by Jeanne Vermilion’s Company’s Coming reaching over one million in sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Taylor
Irricana
Mrs. Taylor
Australian Outback
Australia
Prairie News
Sion
Steinbach
Carillon
Hudson Bay Post- Review
Herbert
the Herald
Jean
Herald
John Deere
Canadian Flag Presented to the House of Commons
On October 29 1899 a special report on the Canadian flag was presented to the House of Commons. The event marks an early moment in the flag's public reception and national symbolism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hou Commons
Montreal Reveries in a Mediterranean Dream
The speaker laments being in Canada and longs for Greece while returning to Montreal to renew uneasy ties. He contrasts Canada's winter with the Mediterranean climate and notes risks of wearing a beard in Montreal. He asserts love for Montreal despite discomfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Mediterranean
Montreal
Greece
Leonard Choen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
P.O. Box 70
Hamiota, Manitoba
Romoto
Manitoba
U.S.A
England
F. D. (Don) Venables
Canadian Community Newspapers Association
Toronto Sun
By Fred McGuinness
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