Estevan man returns from Baffin Island posting
Estevan resident Mr. Lundin returns after two years in Clyde River and Resolu te Bay on Cornwallis River assisting weather forecasting for the Dept of Transport. He will spend seven weeks offshore near the Aleutians aboard the ship Stone Town before a five week port stay.
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Estevan
Baffin Island
Victoria
B.C
Stonetown
Aleutian Islands
Lundin
Clyde River
Hes” Howe
Pond Inlet
Van
Edmonton
Rawindsonde
Dept. of Transport
American Airforce
RCMP
Hudson's Bay
William Hall Formely
Scott, Sask
Hall
Bert
John
C. D. Howe
Mr. Lundin
Churchill
Mr. Lunding
Crochet Rickrack Chair Set Pattern
Item describes a quick crochet project using Rickrack with two colors for a chairback and arm rests sized 6 by 12 inches. Pattern 7211 lists No 30 cotton and gay rickrack and offers to obtain the pattern for twenty five cents in coins by mail.
Brimful of Ideas Needlecraft Catalog Offer
Advertisement from Department P P L Household Arts in Toronto promoting the 1954 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalog. Includes embroidery crochet sewing transfers and 4 patterns printed in the book. Offers 25 events for a copy and ideas for gifts bazaars and fashions. Dust on a light bulb cuts efficiency by about 20 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Loyalty bought and sold in a pup’s delight
A poem portrays buying loyalty friendship and love as a humorous bargain. It contrasts a buyer’s claim with the simple heart of a brown-eyed pup whose wagging tail brings devotion happiness and a lighthearted critique of material bids.
Esterhazy Observer Sells After Four Ownership Changes
Esterhazy Observer, a weekly newspaper, is bought by Jim Baugh from Bert McKay of the Moosomin Spectator. This marks the fourth ownership change since 1945 in Esterhazy Saskatchewan.
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Esterhazy, Sask
Esterhazy Observer
Jim Baugh
Bert McKay
The
Moosomin, Sask
Spectator
New Homes Record Set in Canada for First Half 1954
Canada reports record 41 572 new homes completed in January to June 1954 up five percent from 1953 amid lower six month starts. End of June housing units under construction reached 64 262 as completions rose in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia while Newfoundland Quebec held declines.
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Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Maritime
Prairie
Newfoundland
Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada Rated Third in World Trade for 1953
The 1953 world trade ranking places the United States first, Britain second, and Canada third. Canada has held third place most years since the war, except 1951 when France outranked it. U.S. imports and exports totaled 27.604 billion dollars, Britain 16.89, Canada 9.458, West Germany 8.16, France 7.795, Belgium Luxembourg 4.633. Canada accounted for about 6.3 percent of non Soviet world trade last year.
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Canada
United States
Britain
Bureau of Statistics
France
U.S
West Germany
Belgium
Luxembourg
Grilse Tiny Catch Wins Derby Rod Prize
In Burnaby British Columbia 17 fishermen competed in a fish derby. A half-pound grilse nearly returned to the water was the largest caught and earned Orville Forrest a fishing rod as the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnaby
B.C
Orville Forrest
Canada’s tallest elevator in Toronto bank building
The Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto houses Canada's highest elevator, with cars rising 468 feet to the top.
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Canada
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Toronto
Home Workshop Patterns for Matching Chests and Lamp
Readers can order patterns for two sizes of block-front chests and a coordinating lamp. Patterns cost 35 cents each, or include $1.50 for the Bedroom Furniture Packet with all two chests and lamp patterns. Some lines describe kitchen gadget patterns and order details.
New Regulations Align Canada Wide Disease Controls
The updated rules replace extensive provincial placarding with three mandatory diseases for placards and allow officers to add others. Isolations shift from fixed periods to condition based sizes while reporting rules for rubella, measles, mumps, and chickenpox are revised or removed. The model aims for uniform nationwide disease control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Cc. F. W. Hames
North Battleford
American Public Health Association
Canada
Young cadet strays into Montana lands after flight
A Regina air cadet, flying across Southern Saskatchewan, inadvertently crosses the border into Montana. A farmer fed him a chicken dinner and drove him to town. Police contacted Regina for a pickup plan, with red tape notably absent. The Financial Post notes the incident highlights border realities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Regina
Montana Wheat Field
Dough Preparation and Shaping Instructions for Bread and Rolls
Dough handling steps describe shaping a loaf in a greased pan and baking at 375 for about 40 minutes. A quarter batch is rolled, spread with marmalade, sprinkled with chopped nutrients, rolled jelly-roll style, braided, baked for about 20 minutes. A final quarter batch forms thin strips baked about 10 minutes at 375.
Eggs hidden in duck nest ignite camp mystery
J. B. Lorrimer, far from Saskatoon, struggled to start a fire for two days. He discovered five smoke tinted eggs wedged in a wild duck's nest inside the chimney. The mother duck had disappeared.
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J. B. Lorrimer
Saskatoon
Mother Duck
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Elit
Wgice Brooks
P.P.L
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Orient
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Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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