Western Growth and Industry Rise in Canada
H M Turner of Canadian General Electric predicts vast western development driven by modern transport and electrification. He foresees new industries decentralizing from the East, with prairie workers shifting to Western factories as wealth spreads across the continent. Sea lions swallow pebbles for digestion, a noted behavior observed in the region.
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Prairies
H. M. Turner
Canadian General Electric
Calgary
Alberta
Sorel
Que
United Nations
Associated Screen Studios
Future Security in a Postwar Canada Voices Hope
The text discusses postwar changes in national economies and governance. It notes democratic nations must curb economic insecurity and adopt reforms like Beveridge style social security. Canada’s unemployment insurance and pensions exist, with plans for national health insurance and broader social security to emerge from wartime lessons. Cooperation and tolerance are urged as foundational for a more secure world.
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England
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
National Ae
Department of Pensions and National Health
Parliamentary Committee On Social Security
Prairie service stars and homefront updates in wartime
Readable items recount pilots and crews earning DFC and DFM including DFC for W H Schmitt and DFM for E F Smith, plus Navy women technician work in Toronto medical building and Wartime convalescent homes plan via Wartine fund. Also notes about Etna eruption backdrop and home front care for RCAF veterans.
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Navy
University of Toronto
Fort San
Sask
Wren E.F. Gardiner
Fort Qu’Appelle
Wrcn.s
Women of Royal Canadian Air Force Train in Aerial Photography
Women pilots training with the Royal Canadian Air Force at Rockcliffe Air Station near Ottawa undertake a demanding course in ground crew photo work and brief aerial photography. Under instructors, they log flights and learn photographic processes to support flying personnel, from take-off to landing.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian ‘Air Force
RCAF
Rockcliffe Air Station
Ottawa
Smile Awhile Daday If you are good I give you a new penny
A collection of Jokes and quips from a past era featuring a cheerful boy offering a penny for good behavior and a shopkeeper debating crackers mice with a humorous streetwise tone. It includes exchanges about a pret tiest baby, dangerous spots with a missing sign, multiple meal names at a boarding house, and a quip about eggs and St. Paul’s Cathedral’s long history.
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Sonny
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Ogden
Queiny
Nibe Ogden
Tae
Christies Biscuits
West
Wwe
Indestrieg
Fitness
Suent
Dick) Gordon
Camonton
London
Earl David Beatty
Admiral Beatty
Hell
Catania
Old
Etna
Wartine Convalescent Homes
War Charity Fund, Inc
D. J. McMillan
Landis
Essen
Hamburg
Spezia
Stettin
D. A. Montgomery
Weyburn
M. G. Jensen
Woolford
Alta
E. F. Smith
Herschel
W. H. Schmitt
Aberfield
Sgt
T. H. Iketo
Winnipeg
Army
Air Force
RCN
Gaye Stewart
Toronto Maple Leafs
Claude Warwick
Regina
Jake Edwards
Ottawa Roughriders
Nany Move
Chuck” Millman
Club
St. Paul's
Tee
Regiet Street
Can
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