Larger Shipping Tonnage After The War's End
Ottawa reports wartime growth of Canada's merchant marine with total Allied and neutral shipping leases over 22,000,000 tons by 1943. Minister MacKinnon says world tonnage will rise by war end, but distribution will shift, favoring the United States early then Britain and other Allies. Canada, though 12th in 1930 with 1.22 million tons from 792 ships, will expand to six or seven times that many ships, while UK and Allied fleets grow differently.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Canada
MacKinnon Sud
United States
United Kingdom
Mr. MacKinnon
Great Britain
Ireland
Japan
Norway
Germany
Italy
Holland
France
Greece
Sweden
Russia
Not Well Fed Saskatoon Sparks Feeding Debate
W J Mather of Winnipeg spoke at the Saskatchewan Agricultural College Graduates Association meeting criticizing human nutrition and farm surpluses as they relate to family allowances. He urged improving income to avoid poor feeding and suggested prioritizing humane feeding as with pigs. He warned weak childhood leads to a stunted future workforce.
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Saskatoon
Ang
W. J. Mather
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan Agricultural College Graduates’ Association
Mather
Winnipeg Free Press
Prairie Farmer
Young Veteran Gunner Ackley Serves Five Years Overseas
Gunner James Norman Ackley, 19, has spent five years abroad with Canadian forces, fighting in Sicily and Italy. His brother-in-law William Handley of Trail reports he enlisted in 1939, left Tofield, Aita, and that his stature helped him pass recruiting. Ackley’s parents died. he once lived in Nelson with relatives. He is currently with a Canadian unit in Italy, details unavailable.
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Lson
James Norman Ackley
William Handley
Trail
Ackley
Tofield
Aita
Nelson
J. F. Summer
Edmonton
Gunner Ackley
Italy
Handley
Tarmacs end tour in Britain after 65 shows
The eight man RCAF auxiliary services troupe The Tarmacs return to Britain after touring fighting areas in France where they staged 65 performances for over 25 000 Allied service personnel. The troupe is managed by LAC Ted Cohen of Winnipeg.
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Moar
Britain
Rcaf Auxiliary Services
France
Allied Service Personne
LAC
Ted Cohen
Winnipeg
Wheat Champion Knox Wins Saskatchewan Seed Fair Titles
J Knox of Tuxford Sask wins the wheat championship in registered seed classes at the 36th Saskatchewan provincial seed fair. He also takes the Farm Crops trophy for best hard red spring wheat sample. Apex varieties weighed just over 66 pounds. Open class malting barley goes to George Gwyllt Kelvington. Tyner’s W J Pulham wins flax exhibit with Royal sample. Lenora Huffman Aberdeen wins Thatcher seed club trophy. Junior barley champion Hubert Wilts Englefeld. Bubonic plague outbreak prompts Burma China border control efforts using syringes and DDT.
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Saskatoon
J G Knox
Tuxford
Sask
Saskatchewan
Plane Crash Claims Admiral Ramsay In Route To Belgium
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, chief naval commander on the western front, died in a plane crash while returning from France to Belgium, reportedly not due to enemy action. Ramsay planned the D-Day assault and the Dun Kirk withdrawal. The RAP OverSeas notes over 10,000 Canadian air personnel enrolled in part-time courses from beekeeping to mathematics in 1943 and 1944 as the RC.A.F. expanded education overseas.
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Sir Bertram Ramsay
France
Belgium
Ramsay
Dunkirk
RAP
Rc.a.f
Royal commission investigates Canadian coal industry
An Ottawa inquiry opens into all phases of Canada’s coal industry to guide postwar policy. Led by Justice W. F. Carroll, the royal commission begins hearings at Sydney, Nova Scotia, with plans to visit Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario, and possibly U.S. coal fields before concluding hearings by late spring.
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Ottawa
W. F. Carroll
Halifax
Sydney
Maritimes
Quebec
Ontario
United States
Bomb collision blows up US truck near Luton
A collision between a United States army truck loaded with 20 high explosive bombs and a civilian truck near Luton, England, triggered a heavy explosion. Three people were killed and 17 injured as the blast devastated the countryside five minutes after the impact, sending shockwaves across the area 30 miles west of London.
Why German Drive To The West Has Failed
New York field report on Von Rundstedt's failed westward push in World War II. It cites two main reasons the gamble faltered: inability to swing north and capture key sieges, and underestimating Allied resistance. The US First Army defense and allied countermeasures halted the offensive, preventing encirclement and advance toward Cologne and the Ruhr.
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New York
von Rundstedt
First Army
Cologne
Ruhr
PURE SEED Growers Warned On Seed Purity In Saskatoon
W. T. G. Wiener of the Canadian Seed Growers' Association urged Saskatchewan seed growers to prevent weed infiltration and ensure seed purity. He called for stricter controls, province wide oversight, and cleaner premises before new seed reception to protect export markets.
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Saskatoon
W. T. G. Wiener
Ottawa
Reasurer
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Saskatchewan
Wiener
Adml Ramsay Honored by Allied Leaders in Europe
Leading European war figures paid last respects to Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and four others killed in the January air crash. General Eisenhower British ambassador Alfred Duff Cooper Admiral Cunningham and Lt Gen Koenig attended as coffins draped with the Union Jack were lowered amid a French naval band.
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Ramsay
Europe
Bertram Ramsay
Eisenhower
Alfred Duff Cooper
France
Andrew Browne Cunningham
Pierre Koenig
Paris
Tax payments down Ottawa capital labor relations noted
Revenue Minister Gibson reported income tax, customs and excise collections for December totaling $123, $78,370, a decline of $70,794,158 from December 1943. Australia is cited as the first nation to set capital labor relations before special arbitration courts, with reference to year 2603 as context.
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Ottawa
Australia
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