Canada Sees War-Era Shift In Tourist Traffic
Trends in tourist traffic show Canada retaining more Canadian dollars while American inbound visits fall. July 1940 saw a sharp drop in American cars entering Canada, with August also down year over year. Parks attendance rose, boosted by Banff Jasper highways, while publicity efforts failed to fully stem U S travel concerns.
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Canada
Dominion Goveernment
Dominion
National Revenue Review
Pnal Revenue
USA
Niagara Falls
Jasper National Park
Banff-Jasper
Ite
Not What He Expected In Scotland A Horse Walks Off
A reader reports a curious mishap after a man visiting London on leave bought a motor car. On returning to the station he asked a porter to open the van and drive his car out, but instead a horse emerged from the doorway, creating an unexpected scene.
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Scotland
London
Scots special pulls into Kamsack train crew all Macs
A CNR freight from Dauphin Manitoba arrived at Kamsack and revealed an all Mc crew. McKeever and McNabb were in the locomotive cab, McRae served as conductor, and in the caboose were McFarlane McLean and McDougall.
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Kamsack
Dauphin
Man
Glengarry Cut
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McNabb
McRae
Aboose
McFarlane, McLean
McDougall
Beg For Sarapa Commuters Beset by Shrapnel Pleas
London commuters alight from trains and face groups of youths requesting money or shrapnel, as they return home to the country. The scene unfolds each evening with improvised street encounters and uneasy, recurring interruptions.
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London
Chivalry Persists Among World War II Airmen
London in Ottawa Journal notes lingering chivalry among air crews. German pilots signaling to land after being damaged, RAF foes delaying fire to allow safe landing, and a wing salute to wounded aircraft. Despite modern mechanization, some honor codes endure in aerial combat.
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London
Ottawa Journal
Agneer
RAF
Selected Marguerites and Lemon Meringue Pie Recipes
Old kitchen notes describe Marguerites from marguerite pans two dozen yield with brown sugar flour baking powder salt nuts beaten eggs and Kellogg's Al Bran. bake 350 15 minutes cool and dust with sugar. Also includes a lemon pie filling with cornstarch salt eggs yolks lemon juice rind butter baked in shell with meringue brown in a slow 200 degree oven.
French officers place wreath on Paris tomb incident
A group of French officers laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph in Paris. For three days crowds visited the tomb, drawing Nazi suspicion. A Gestapo officer found a card reading Death to Hitler and cows with the scoundrel France will live. The wreath was removed and the Gestapo sought the culprit.
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Wailea
Paris
Gestapo
Hitler
France
Windsor Star
Where Traitors Triumph under Nazi Occupation
Belgian workers face a stark choice between unemployment or working for the Nazis against Belgium. Those who choose the latter lose 25 percent of wages to fund a Nazi social system. Independent unions are crushed, leaders exiled or silenced, rights replaced by rigid control under foreign occupation. Belgians live in fear of spies as traitors prosper under the invader. Max Buset, Belgian Labor Leader.
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Max Buset
Great Help To Britain by Fitere Get Valuable Men About Nast Moves
Assistance to the British Intelligence service comes from experts who learn German invasion tactics. At night they fly to the Netherlands, land at a secret airfield, and scout along the coast for enemy activity. Their German language skills supply facts to British bombing squadrons that struck the Nazi invasion fleet in French ports. Logdon monuments stand as irreplaceable gems, condemned by the Nazis.
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Fitere
Brsh
Formar
Population rankings of the world’s four most populous
The passage lists China India Russia and the United States as the four most populous nations. It provides figures with errors stating China about 450 million and India about 350 million, Russia around 180 million and the United States over 120 million, indicating a garbled data excerpt from an uncertain source.
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China
India
Russia
United States
Hina
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