Montreal Chateau hosts model ships marking Canadian history
In Montreal the Chateau de Ramezcy hosts a marine exhibition with historical ship models from canoes to Trafalgar era ships plus a five foot steering wheel and a sailor carving. The display accompanies the Chateau’s 250th anniversary with plans for land transport models later this summer.
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Montreal
Chateau de Ramezcy
Jacques Cartier
T R Mclagan
Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal
Louis Carrier
Trafalgar
Bierre Ste. Marie
Longueuil
Chateau
Joe Beef
Ste. Marie
Virginie
George Macrae
Royal Navy
Signature facts about Shakespeare handwriting
The article notes only six confirmed Shakespeare signatures remain. It states two other words are certainly in his handwriting and about 250 more words are possibly in the bard’s hand.
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Shakespeare
Drafting Careers Promoted By Home Study Diploma
Classified draftsperson training ad invites entry via a Toronto program. Free folder offered, low Fall fees, from Primary School of Drafting in Toronto Ontario.
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Dept
Box
Station Q
Toronto
Ontario
Bread Making Steps With Yeast Activation
Mix 3 cents of milk with 14 cups sugar 1 percent teaspoon salt and 4 tablespoons shortening until lukewarm. In a large bowl place 4 cups lukewarm water 1 teaspoon sugar stir until dissolved. Sprinkle one envelope Fleischmanns Active Dry Yeast over the surface and let stand 10 minutes then stir well.
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Fleischmann
Bulb planting time urged by Beaverlodge experts
Experts from Beaverlodge Experimental Farm urge bulb planting from August to early October to ensure spring and summer blooms. They highlight blue squills, yellow fritillaries, multicolored tulips and lilies, noting that friable soil and trenching to replace subsoil improve lily success in the Peace River region.
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Beaverlodge
Peace River
Peace River Country
Seven foot turtle fights fisherman off Halifax coast
A fisherman reported a hour long bout with a seven foot tropical turtle harpooned near Halifax. Officials noted a bigger tropical sea turtle of 1400 pounds landed in Cape Breton days earlier. Researchers question why tropical turtles move north with warmer Atlantic waters drawing them from homes.
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Halifax
Howard Smith
Sam
Bro
Cape Breton
Atlantic
Saskatchewan licenses OVER 200 locker plants
Regina reports three new frozen food locker plants in Mankota Hodgeville and Harris. The province has licensed 220 locker plants since 1946 serving about 75 000 renters and storing over 21 million pounds in 1954. Applications go to the Minister of Agriculture, then to the licensing board for final approval.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Mankota
Hodgeville
Harris
Department of Agriculture
S. S Swainson
Minister of Agriculture
Locker Plant Licensing Board
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Quilt Pattern 7264
Embroidery pattern for a slumber quilt featuring adorable figures, 36 by 54 inches. Includes transfers diagrams and directions. Send twenty five cents to Department P.P.L Household Arts Toronto for pattern order and 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue.
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Alice Brooks
Canadian flour mills weigh toward decimal packing changes
Rumors of a shift from the 196 pound barrel to decimal packing spread in Canada as major mills weigh larger sizes. The move would convert 98 and 49 pound fractions to 100 and 50 pounds, with 10 pound bags already in use. If adopted by the leading mills, about 80 percent of milling capacity could drive nationwide acceptance, though such changes take years.
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U.S.A
Canada
Rare ice age horse bones found in Saskatchewan gravel pit
Fossil remains of a pony sized ice age horse were unearthed by Bernard De Vries at a Fort Qu Appelle gravel pit. Three individuals represented, with accompanying Woolly Mammoth tooth and tusk, Musk Ox fragment, and archaeological interest. Saskatchewan's Museum of Natural History seeks records of fossils for display and study.
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Fort Qu’Appelle
Regina
North American
Bernard de Vries
Fort Qu Appelle
Sask
Saskatoon
Bruce McCorquodale
Museum of Natural History
North America
Asia
Siberia
Alaska
United States
Mr. McCorquodale
Africa
Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan
Cleanliness and ship upkeep and other humorous proverbs
A collection of old jokes and quips centered on misunderstandings and puns. A mother learns a proverb goes wrong, a mountaineer laments, a restaurant order backfires, a homesick student jokes about air pressure, and a Sunday school child skeptically declines heaven with a group.
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Gilbert Grandval
France
Morocco
Paris
North Africa
Edgar Faure
Grandval
Moroccco
P.P.L. Household Arts Department
Front Street W
Navy
Jim
Johnny
Wirth Corrallin
of the
Golden West
Ingersoll Cheese CO. Ltd
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