Canada eyes new trade pact with United States
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced exploratory talks toward a broad revised trade agreement with the United States begun last August. He said Ottawa is aware of the political and economic implications of talks involving the United Kingdom and United States and that negotiations will proceed with direct conferences as progress allows.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Mackenzie King
United Kingdom
Cordell Hull
Washington
House of Commons
London
King
Police seize magazines in Quebec raids
About 70 copies of five magazines were seized in coordinated raids on Champlain News Company and City News Dealers. Mayor J E Gregoire declared the sale of dirty literature would not be tolerated in the city. The action followed an order from Quebec’s administrative committee after Alderman Philemon Garneau protested with a magazine copy.
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Quebec
J. E. Gregoire
City Hall
Champlain News Company
City News
Philemon Garneau
Nutrition Council Formed in Canada to Advise Ottawa
Health Minister Power announced a National Council of Nutrition in Canada. It will include about 25 members under chair Dr. R. E. Wodehouse and feature representatives from 17 national administrative branches and voluntary organizations.
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Ottawa
Council of Nutrition
Canada
Power
R. E. Wodehouse
History Of Great War Ottawa Volume 61 Proofs Read
Proofs of the 61st volume of Canada's official history of the Great War are being read. Preparations are complete for the volume to appear early in 1935. Editorial criticism has targeted the delay in issuing the work led by Col. A Fortescue Duguid. The first volume covers the war from its outbreak to the second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
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Ottawa
Canada
Col
A. Fortescue Duguid
Defence Department
Ypres
Andrew Macphail
Wheat title lost at Royal Winter Fair for Trelle
Herman Trelle of Wembley Alta four times world wheat king failed to win first in spring wheat at the Royal Winter Fair. Fred Paverly of Wembley took top honors with Reward wheat while Trelle placed second with Marquis in honor of Sir Charles Saunders. H G Neufield finished third.
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Toronto
Herman Trelle
Wembley
Alta
Trelle
Fred Paverly
Fort William
Paverly
Marquis
H. G. Neufield
Codette, Sask
Sir Charles Saunders
Canada New Health Report Lists 1936 Death Toll
The 1936 death toll across Canada totaled 106 617, a rate of 9.7 per thousand. Highest in Prince Edward Island at 11.1, lowest in Saskatchewan at 6.7. Maritime provinces show elevated rates. Alberta and Manitoba remain low. Cancer deaths rose to 11 652 with Ontario 4 438 and Quebec 2 938. Tuberculosis caused 6 745 deaths. pneumonia 7 266. Motor fatalities reached 1 277.
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Ottawa
Canada
National Health Department
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Maritime Provinces
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prairie Provinces
Alberta
Manitoba
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Premier Hepburn Signals Ontario Willingness on Unemployment Insurance
In Sault Ste. Marie Premier Hepburn said Ontario is ready to waive constitutional rights to help establish nationwide unemployment insurance. He welcomed federal gestures and stated Ontario supports King’s request for provinces to join the federal program while already committed to an unemployment insurance plan.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Hepburn
Ontario
Mackenzie Kings
Mackenzie King
Ottawa Finance Dept Struggles to Fill $5400 Post
The Ottawa finance department cannot find a qualified Canadian for a general executive assistant job offering 5400 dollars yearly. Despite civil service exams by several men, none passed and the department abandoned further recruitment. Requirements included university education with economics focus and at least five years in financial work.
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Ottawa
Finance Department
Japanese Threats to Blockade China at Conference
Dr. Wellington Koo, China's lead delegate at Brussels, says Japan's blockade threat aims to cow the conference into withholding aid to China. Japanese officials warn any decision to aid China would be seen as hostile. Informants note Japan may claim international law to blockade the Chinese coast if help is approved, while tracing the voting split among the 19 powers.
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Brussels
Wellington Koo
China
Dr Koo
Tokyo
Japan
Koo
Italy
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Great Britain
Canada
Australia
South Africa
India
New Zealand
London To Cape Record Cape Town
Flying Officer A. E. Clouston and Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green landed in Cape Town after a 45 hours and 5 minutes flight from London. They beat Amy Johnson Mollison’s 1936 record by 33 hours 24 minutes and also set London Cairo and London Johannesburg marks. The crowd cheered as the pair thanked supporters and promised a return flight to London.
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Cape Town
A. E. Clouston
Betty Kirby-Green
London
Cape
Amy Johnson Mollison
Croydon
Clouston
Japanese Activity On The Canadian Pacific Coast
Defence Minister Mackenzie confirmed the topic is not new to his department and that Canada’s intelligence service stays well informed on safety matters. He urged private citizens to report important defence information to the Department of National Defence, saying such tips will be welcomed.
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Victoria
Mackenzie
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
F. G. Scott
British Columbia
Canada
Department of National Defence
Bank of Canada Declares Half-Year Dividend for 1937
The Bank of Canada announces a half-year dividend of 1.13 dollars per share on its capital stock. The dividend is payable on and after January 3, 1938 to holders of record at close of business November 30, 1937.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Riders on Arctic Ice Floe Near Greenland
Four Russian campers on an ice floe drifted 400 miles from their Arctic camp near the pole and were about 125 miles off the northeastern Greenland coast. Dr Otto Schmidt said they may be rescued in January before the floe breaks up. Ernest Krenkel described life in the hut as a sugar coated cake amid ice hummocks and snow drifts.
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Moscow
North Pole
Greenland
Otto Schmidt
Pole
Schmidt
Ernest Krenkel
Canadian Broadcasting Board Hears Sunday Advertising Restrictions
In camera sessions continued as the Ottawa-Board of governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation heard a joint representation from the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada and the Ligue du Dimanche. They urged limiting Sunday radio advertising to sponsor announcements and pushing to prohibit commercial sports programs and broadcasts of professional sports on Sundays.
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Ottawa—Board of Governors
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Lord's Day Alliance of Canada
Ligue du Dimanche
Winter Weather Halts Spanish War Action at Hendaye
Winter weather paralyzed military action on the Spanish fronts near Hendaye. No reports of fighting from either side as observers cautioned that winter could stall General Franco's campaign. Advices said heavy fog blanketed the opposing armies at the frontier.
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Hendaye
Franco
Viscount Cecil Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1937
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, aged 73, recognized as Britain's leading pacifist and League of Nations advocate, receives the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize. The article notes his planned resignation from active directing of the pacifist campaign, his presidency of the international peace campaign, and his long parliamentary and diplomatic service. It also places his award in the lineage of English laureates and explains the Nobel prize origins and previous recipients.
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Oslo
Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood
League of Nations
Viscount Cecil
League of Nations Union
Lord Cecil
Marquis of Salisbury
House of Commons
Lord Robert Cecil
Duchy of Lancaster
South Africa
Alfred E. Nobel
Willam Randal Cremer
Austen Chamberlain
Charles Gates Dawes
United States
Norman Angell
Arthur Henderson
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carl von Ossietsky
British Lords Hear Objections to Barley Colonial Demands before League
London reports Lord Plymouth says there are serious objections to placing Germany s colonial demands before the League of Nations. He notes appeasement aims and a comprehensive settlement, with open doors in Africa tied to league membership and limited armaments.
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London
Earl of Plymouth
Foreign Affairs
House of Lords
Germany
League of Nations
Lord Plymouth
Europe
Lord Allen
Hurtwood
Africa
League
Plot Against Nation said to involve La Cagoule arrests
Police broadened a nation wide probe into the secret hooded society La Cagoule as Dieppe magistrate Beteille issued many warrants. Six arrests revealed a structured network with underground passages and caches of explosives anti aircraft weapons machine guns and munitions. Individuals named include Rene Anceaux Gaston Jussereau Robert de la Motte de St Pierre Fernand Jakubicz Joseph Vasselin and Louis Mollicone. New arrests expected as material was turned over to authorities.
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Paris
la Cagoule
Dieppe
Rene Anceaux
Gaston Jussereau
Robert de la Motte de St. Pierre
Fernand Jakubicz
Joseph Vasselin
Louis Mollicone
Beteille
Canada to Build Most New Planes at Home
Vancouver arrival of Minister of National Defence Ian Mackenzie says 84 of 102 new Royal Canadian Air Force planes will be built in Canada this fiscal year with 18 built in England. Eleven Canadian-made aircraft will be manufactured in Vancouver. The fleet includes training ships service fighters bombers and reconnaissance machines.
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Vancouver
Ian Mackenzie
National Defence
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canada
Victoria
England
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Dominion Rust Research Laboratory
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Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada
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Amy Mellison
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Buller
University of Manitoba
B. Peterson
W. F. Hanna
Margaret Newton
A. H. R. Buller
J H. Craigie
C. H Goulden
R. F. Peterson
W. H. Waddell
T. Johnson
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Dr. Johnson
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J. N. Welsh
F. J. Greaney
J. E. Machacek
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