Pacific influences in British Columbia native art and totem poles
The article surveys British Columbia Indigenous art noting strong Polynesian era patterns in totem poles and canoes, linking carvings to New Zealand and South Seas motifs. It discusses links to early Chinese jades, Scythian affinities from Rus visits, and basket weaving as a key, with pottery origins tied to decorative clay transfer from woven baskets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MLC
South Seas
British Columbia
New Zealand
Foster Island
Canada
United States
Manitona eyes diamond jubilee on July fifteenth
Manitona contemplates celebrating its 1s diamond jubilee on July 15 1930. Premier Joan Bracken announced this at Winnies as Premier MacDonald requested permission for Leon Trotsky to enter Great Britain. The bulletin covers international notes on Britain Japan Canada and social reform plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitona
Winnies
Joan Bracken
London
Daly Sketch
MacDonaid
Teruard Leon Trotzky
Great Britain
Abasa
Iwate
Will
Vancouver
German Ship Builds New Design Aims Safer Fuel Savings
Deschimag introduces a new vessel shape with a bent bow and stern to press water downward, reducing friction and fuel use. Three deep sea trawlers built on the design report lower consumption, less rolling and pitching, and improved steering in trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deschimag Op
Winnipeg Pattern Catalog Sparks City Prosperity
Winnipeg units at 173 McDermoot Ave offer guidance on proper work habits and orders. The note emphasizes individual effort and the town’s prosperity through skilled pattern use and timely execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
McDermoot Ave
Spring fashion pattern 464 offered with bright fabrics
The ad describes a peplum pumpie blue or printed vie crepe pattern No. 464 with shirring shoulder bows and easy sizing 16 to 42 bust. It lists fabric options like off white ivory crepe satin, lime voile, red crepe de chine, and georgette. Pattern price 25 cents plus 19 cents for Spring Fashion Magazine copy.
Remarkable Jungfraujoch Hotel High In Bernese Alps
The Junfraujoch hotel perched 11 480 feet above sea level in the Bernese Alps Switzerland is built into the rock and overlooks clouds from its lounge. It began as a ramshackle shelter during the 1917 construction of the funicular and has grown into a unique high mountain hotel serving climbers and tourists despite winter isolation and snowbound routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernese Alps
Switzerland
Nercest
Hopital Armth
Interlaken
Jungfraujoch
Recipes For This Week By Betty Barclay
Soup gramam nour 1 cup corn meal 1 cup four 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon taking powder 4% cup sorghum or molasses ipa sour milk. Mix and sift the dry ingredients Mix milk and molasses and add last. When well mixed, fill buttered molds half full. Cover tightly and steam for three hours. Unmold and place in moderate oven for 1 minutes. Serve hot or cold.
Fruity Cream Cup Dessert From Old Recipe
A vintage recipe outlines making a custard with oranges. Beat yolks with sugar then whisk in flour and salt before adding milk and cooking in a double boiler until thick. Cool, stir in vanilla, fold in orange slices, then top with meringue-like eye whites beaten with sugar and serve.
Canadian Delegates For Imperial Press Conference
Canadian delegates prepare to attend the Imperial Press Conference in London next June. Canada will send 20 delegates to represent about 60 Union members, the largest Empire representation. The conference follows meetings in Australia in 1925 and Canada in 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Alta
Condon
Council of the Empire Press Union
Woods
Canada
Empire
Australia
London
England
Names of Europe and Asia Misinterpreted in Myth and Language
The text asserts origins for Europe and Asia from myth and Semitic roots, then shifts to Canadian Rockies travel. It mentions Banff national park trails of ten, twenty five, or fifty miles by trained horses for visitors, presenting this as an ideal way to view attractions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Voight
Alavia
New York
Charles Colebrooke Patterson
J.C. Patterson
Manitoba
Ottawa
C. Francis Jenkin Washington
Miles Aseay
Japan
Ramsay MacDonald
Ambassador Dawes
Europe
Ratropa
Crete
Asia
Canadian Rockies
Banff
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Canadian Mediterranean boosts Bay of Hudson route benefit
The Canadian Mediterranean notes see a new life for the Hudson Bay route aiding Canada’s transportation and export ambitions. It forecasts vast mineral, pulp and paper, and metallurgical development along the road while acknowledging government data gathering on navigability. Grizzly hunting returns in the Mount Robson region, with Walter W Lang and Richard Lace of Milwaukee bringing back hides from a spring expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Bay
le Devonf
Montreal
Henel
Canada
Dleae
Alka
Cludes
St. Lawrence
Walter W. Lang
Milwaukee
Mount Robson
B.C
Mr Lang
Rockies
Richard Lace
Sunday School Lesson Fragments and Quotations
A compilation of religious quotes and excerpts from authors including Jeretia, J Stuart Holden, Daniel, Alexander Maclaren, and Shakespeare. The notes discuss devotion, service, sanctification, and recognizing true value beyond appearances.
Montreal terminal bill passes Senate for upgraded CN station
The Canadian National Railways terminal project in Montreal, costing about 59,000 dollars, advances with full parliamentary sanction. It will place a below ground station with underground and overhead connections, easing freight and passenger traffic and reducing 108 miles of current detours to Joliette and Eastern Junction. St. Catherine Street will run through the structure with a vehicle tunnel and electric power, possibly inviting the Canadian Pacific involvement later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian National Railways
Montreal
New York Central
New York
Senate
America
Canadian National
St. Cather
Ite
Canada
Seth
Harbor Railways
Owl
Turcot
Joliette
Rinstet
Eastern Junction
Canadian Pacific Railway
Honor Belongs To England In Artificial Silk Story
The credit for artificial silk originated in France with Reaumur though the first suggestion came from Englishman Dr. Robert Hook in 1664. Louis Schwabe built the first spinnerette machine in Manchester in 1840, later committing suicide after poor sales. Today the industry is large with substantial investment in England. Alberta celebrates its twenty first anniversary as Lanceriths D. Alberta marks the event with leaders Tory Rutherford participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Reaumur
Robert Hook
England
Louis Schwabe
Manchester
Schwabe
Phe Lanceriths
Alberta
H. M. Tory
National Research Council of Canada
Alc. Rutherford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Toten
Polynesia
A. Names
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Arctic
Herschel Island
Parliament
Victoria
Chaim
Saskatoon
Tuck Wat
Alps
Les
Betty Barclay
OSTON
Dominion
Mares Drcese
Eenne Howard
Washington
Montreal Journal
Tonday
Gorden
Dave
Jeretia
J. Stuart Holden
Carnie
Daniel March
Horte
Coorn
Alexander Maclaren
Shakespeare
Renchman
University of Alberta
Toronto
Orr Kaw
John A. Chantler & Co., Ltd
Wellington St. W
Toronto, Ont
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