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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
4
The average Alberta ranch covers about 2.000 acres owned by individuals, with 6.000 additional acres leased from the provincial government. This breakdown highlights the split between private holdings and government leases in the province's ranching landscape.
The 1954 Annual Report of the Farm Improvement Loans Act shows $62,073,806 in Canada loaned to farmers, down 36 percent from 1953 but above the long term average. Prairie provinces loaned 60 percent, Saskatchewan saw the largest drop, and $513,606,648 has been borrowed since 1954. Over 89 percent funded farm implements and machinery, with shifts toward homes and farm buildings. Since 1945, repayments reach $383,184,852. Losses total $149,814 in ten years. 1954 saw $52,000,000 in farming equipment purchases and thousands of tractors, trucks, and combines financed. Livestock loans totaled $2,875,926, while new land development loans exceed $4.8 million.
About two hundred people attended the Carberry Orange Hall Friday May 6 to watch ten 4 H members compete in the Annual District 441 Public Speaking Contest on conservation topics. Bernice Rasmussen won top score with a well delivered talk and received Kiwanis and local prize support. George Halkyard, age 12, was also noted for an outstanding speech.
Robt conducts an auction sale for Mrs. C. Heming at her MacGregor home on Saturday May 28. Posters advise attendance.
Mr and Mrs James Currie hosted about 280 guests Friday night May 13 at Edrans Hall for a wedding dance honoring newlyweds Mr and Mrs Donald Currie. The couple thanks neighbors for music and lunch and Mrs Len Balcunas for baking while Mrs Harold Brown contributed decor.
Calgary began as a North West Mounted Police post in 1875. The settlement was originally named Fort Brisebois before evolving into a major Canadian city.
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