Fur Farming In Canada A Major Industrial Sector In 1943
W M Ritchie of the Fur Inspection and Grading Services reports fur farming as a large, healthy industry in Canada with an estimated 40 million dollar investment. In 1943 Canadian raw fur production reached a record 27,694,164 dollars, led by mink pelts followed by muskrat and silver fox, as demand rose amid wartime prosperity and limited imports.
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W. M. Ritchie
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Canada
Ritchie
United States
Africa
Persia
Montreal
Britain
Altitude Gyro Enables All Aerobatic Manoeuvres
Announcement of a new flight instrument named the altitude gyro allows pilots to perform all aerobatic maneuvers without ground reference. It continuously shows the aircrafts position relative to the earths surface.
Silk Industry in China Seeks Fashion Ties for Revival
Dr Tingu F Tsiang head of China's UN relief delegation told reporters in Montreal the silk industry will depend on fashion for dresses after the war. He hopes wider silk fabric use and close contact with fashion centers in Paris or New York to revive demand and exchange goods with Canada. Main Canadian exports cited as wheat and lumber. China would export silk and ornamental goods to Canada.
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China
Tingu F. Tsiang
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Council
Montreal
Tsiang
Dr. Tsiang
Paris
New York
Canada
Chinese Republic
Chna
Just Common Sense on Numerology and 1944 Date Claim
A Vancouver province reader rejects numerologists claims that war ends on September 7 at 2, noting simple arithmetic with birth dates and ages yields 1944. The letter argues such sums prove nothing and mentions ancient Egypt with the beam scale.
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Vancouver
Tough-Fibred Russians Endure War Through Discipline
A Detroit Free Press feature argues Russian resilience stems from economic necessity and hard struggle. It profiles Lt. Col. Yevodkia Bershanskay, a Kuban Cossack daughter, who completed 130 Soviet air force missions while awaiting her husband’s return. Her defiantly persistent line “Mama” reflects wartime grit.
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Yevodkia Bershanskay
Yevodkin
Russia
Detroit
Ypres Hold Memory in Canadian War Remembrance
Ypres known as Wipers to veterans stands as a wartime memory. The town saw a brutal four year siege and ruin, later rebuilt with Menin Gate memorials. The 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 1st Canadian Division faced German gas on April 24 1915 with improvised protection.
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Ypres
West Flanders
Ostend
Menin Gate
Brother Surprises Brother in Fateful France Reunion
Paul Harp of Mound City II writes his wife from a foxhole in northern France during a battle. He is pleased and surprised when his brother Leon, whom he hadn’t seen in 214 years, stumbles into the same position.
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France
Paul Harp
Mound City, II
Leon
War Charities Gain From Queen's Canadian Fund Use
In 1942 the Queen's Canadian Fund allotted 000 dollars or 22 500 for Australian air raid relief but with no need, funds were redirected to Australian war charities. The first 1 000 pounds funded a new Missions to Seamen Club at Williamstown Melbourne opened by Canadian High Commissioner T C Davis.
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Queen's Canadian Fund
Australia
Williamstown
Melbourne
T C. Davis
Pineapple Doilies Pattern and Canadian Police Horses
Crochet pattern 7201 explains pineapple doilies with materials and a 20 cent mail order. The article details Canada supplying police horses to Trinidad and Barbadoes for eleven years, the Breeding Station Policy, and how horses are selected, bred, and shipped to support imperial mounted units.
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Canada
West Indies
Trinidad and
Barbadoes
Brampton
Ontario
British West Indies
Trinidad
Dominion Department of Agriculture
J. M. McCillum
Parbadoes
Canadian Fliers Warship in France
Members of an R C A F Typhoon wing in Normandy attend an early morning church service at a dispersal point. SAC Walter Reave of Timmins, Ont., the padre's driver, helps with hymn books as a Typhoon looms in a harvested wheat field. Squadron Leader Herbert Ashford, Calgary, leads hymns. Group Captain Paul Davoud, Kingston, reads scripture. Sgt. M. E. McRady from Vancouver plays the portable organ with Cpl. Lefty Helm of Kitchener nearby.
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R.C.A F
Normandy
Sac Walter
Tiny” Reave
Timmins
Ont
Herbert E. D. Ashford
M.B.E
Calgary
Paul Y. Davoud
D.S.O
D.F.C
Kingston
M. E. McRady
Rigger
Vancouver
Cpl
Lefty” Helm, Cook
Kitchener
Proctor Animal Cemetery Opens in Nashua 1929
The Proctor Animal Cemetery in Nashua New Hampshire was founded in 1929 as one of the few burials grounds dedicated to animals. It contains the first "Maerker to an Unknown Dog" and draws burial requests from across the nation.
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Proctor
Nashua
Echoes Recording Notes Highlight Repeated 30 Syllable Sequence
The fragment notes a pattern of echoes repeating 30 syllables and records the instance with the code 2587. It preserves the technical detail while avoiding speculative context about source or causes.
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Haseen
New York City
U.S
Dieppe
Indian Army
B. P. Hall
Humboldt, Sask
Belgium
Nieuport
Fonhole
Cofton
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Alice Brooks
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