Trans-Canada Highway Nears Completion Across Canada
The highway now links Halifax and Vancouver nearly 4000 miles with only two miles near Hearst, Ontario unfinished. It is a core transport advance, rushed for military necessity, featuring well kept hard surfaces in many stretches and modern boulevard sections through mountains and forests connecting eastern and western settlements and cities.
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Hearst
Ontario
Halifax
Vancouver
East West Highways Linked Across Prairies and North
The Trans-Canada and Alaska highways are discussed as key future links uniting Canada. The routes, built amid mountains forests swamps and muskeg, promise military and civilian use after the war, expanding travel trade and national unity through better communication and exchange of goods.
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Alaska
Future helicopter replaces cars in Igor Sikorsky vision
A Russian writer imagines 1955 when automobiles are nearly obsolete and a new style helicopter, cheaper than today's cars, becomes a common backyard flyer. The craft can take off land and hover in place, changing daily life and transportation. Halifax Herald
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Camp Life At Three Rivers Quebec Military Centre
Corporal W W Reeve reports on camp life at the Canadian Machine Gun Training Centre A 17 Three Rivers Quebec The Army St Test keeps men on their toes University educated men compete well Five units score well in the test The Junior NCOs look forward to the opening of the Corporal's Mess Major Lowe oversees arrangements A Vickers demonstration shows how tone varies with range Balloons used as targets The Sgt mess helps a bereaved mother in law repair funds The death of CQMS Robert Kitt robs the camp of a popular figure Interment with full military honors at Mount Royal Cemetery
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Vickers
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CQMS
Robert Kitt
Mount Royal
Apple Pie Moderne Recipe and Morals
Selected recipes describe making an apple pie with corn flake crumb crust and butter sugar toppings, baked in two stages at 350 and 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The text includes yield and a Thackeray quotation urging readers to seek lofty company and avoid narrow admiration.
Canadian boot and shoe output tops in eight months of 1912
Production in Canada during the first eight months ending August 31 reached 21,54468 pairs with 221 factories listed in operation. The note mentions leather from Canadian farm animals and a claim about fat vessels, then shifts to cliffside grottoes near Sevastopol and a cargo ship's age.
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South Africa
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