Canada Expands Royal Navy to Fourth Largest Power
Canada has dramatically grown its naval strength over five years from about a dozen ships and 1,700 personnel to hundreds of ships and roughly 100,000 sailors. With Britain, the United States and Japan already larger, Canada is poised to rise to third as Japan potentially exits the top ranks. The surge boosts naval prestige, bases, yards, and support for a potent fleet.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Canada
Britain
United States
Japan
Record Of Royal Canadian Navy In World War II
The navy's wartime record shows 109 Canadian ships in the European invasion with 10,000 sailors, the largest convoy of 150 ships carrying over a million tons, plus 13 surface ships and 15 submarines sunk or damaged and many enemy craft destroyed in alliance efforts. Plans for a postwar fleet call for 15,000 personnel and two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, and light destroyers, costing around 50 million dollars annually, to be decided later.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Macdonald
Europe
North Atlantic
Canada
Rescued Honors Former Physician To The Late King George Is Dead
Sir Humphrey Rolleston 82 long served as physician to King George V. A top British medical figure, he held posts with the Army Medical Library, Legion of Honor, Royal College of Physicians, and naval medical service in World War I. He lived in Surrey before his death. The report notes extensive international honors and roles in medical protection committees.
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Humphrey Rolleston
George V
Surrey
Army Medical Library
Washington
Dm.g.c
Association ‘of American Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
Royal Navy
Royal Air Force
Smile Awhile Humorous Exchange Card Deck
A string of quick witticisms and brief gags unfolds as Robin and Smith discuss a wife’s method of getting what she wants. Jokes touch on marriage, hats, lights, and a hidden fuse, with playful banter and misdirected punchlines.
Price Control And Rationing Information Q A
Information on current rationing is summarized with notes on valid sugar coupons in book three and tea coffee restrictions. It explains that F coupons remain valid until December, cafe serving allowances are limited, and ration books five will include tea and coffee coupons but not be used. Also details on automobile age change date October 1 and birth certificate requirements for ration books with hospital declarations issued.
Newfoundland Elderly Lady Sees Movie For First Time
Mrs. Margaret Trico a 77 year old Newfoundlander born at Petty Harbour has seen her first film and believes cinema is here to stay. Her property borders a rest camp for sailors at Donovan s eight miles from St John s and Lieut Harold Mitchell special services officer at the camp invited the neighbor to a tent show as part of camp entertainment.
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Margaret Trico
Petty Harbour
Trico
Donovan's
St. John’s
Harold Mitchell
Rcn.v.r
Regina
Toronto
Shelterbelt Roots Influence on Wind Breaks in Sask
Observation at the Dominion Forest Nursery Station Indian Head Sask suggests hedge and shelterbelt roots affect growth over an area equal to the plant height on both sides of the belt. A Bougainville Island secret custom places a hat on every male infant until marriage.
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Dominion Forest Nursery
Indian Head
Sask
Bougainville Island
South Pacific
Constipation remedy claims by ALUBRAN creator
An advertising style claim promotes ALUBRAN as an easy solution for constipation. The snippet repeats the phrase about ending constipation with minimal effort and notes the creator’s persistence with the product. No medical evidence is provided.
Bible links two generations of Swank in wartime service
A father and son meet at a New York Port of Embarka ton camp. Master Sgt Galan Swank, once of Minneapolis and Congera NY, recalls his service from the Argonne to Dieppe, North Africa, El Guettar, Sicily and Salerno. His son Staff Sgt Marcell Swank shows the same Bible carried through nine bloody hours at Dieppe and Africa.
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New York
Embarkaton
Galan Swank
Congera
Minneapolis
Mina
AEF
Marcell Swank
Argonne Forest
Swank
Dieppe
North Africa
el Guettar
Tunisia
Sicily
Salerno
Italy
Canadian CWACs Visit Santa Monica Army Camp
Two Canadian Women's Army Corps members from British Columbia Sgt Edna Mitchell of Vancouver and Pte Shirley Granger of Kimberley were hosted by the US Army Recreation Camp at Santa Monica California. The visitors enjoyed 14 days of Southern California leisure and hospitality at the camp canteen and with the American host personnel before returning to their Vancouver postings.
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Uncle Sam's Army
Vancouver
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Edna Mitchell
Shirley Granger
Kimberley
B.C
Santa, Monica
California
Santa Monica
Daughter of Major General Vanier joins CWAC in Paris
Second Lieutenant Denise Vanier of Montreal has been posted from England to Paris, reuniting with her father, Canadian Ambassador-Designate to the French Provisional Government. After escaping France in 1940 she served with the Mechanized Transport Corps and Fighting French before transferring to the CWAC in 1943. She recently received her commission.
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Se Vanier
CW AC
Montreal
England
Paris
C.w.ac
George P. Vanier
France
Lieut. Vanier
Mechanized Transport Corps
C.W.A.C
London
Army CWAC pets charm London barracks with stuffed creatures
In the Dominion CWACDOM barracks in London Ontario Army girls keep plush pets on their beds. Examples include Muddles a striped plush kitten and Peachy a peach yarn dog with button eyes. Other toys range from teddy bears to panda figures as part of daily routine.
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Cwacdom
CWAC
London
Ont
Carrot Leaves as Hair Ornaments in Elizabethan Era
Historical note recalls carrot leaves once believed decorative enough for hair in Queen Elizabeth I’s era. The snippet frames a fashion myth from the period, contrasting hair adornment ideas with contemporary horticultural uses.
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English Indies
Queen Elizabeth
Royal Air Force backs color film for facial injury speech therapy
The RAF welcomes a new approach to rehabilitating flying men with facial injuries. A physiologist J Y Bogue and RAF researcher Dennis Fry recorded the first color film of tongue movements with a 72 year old Londoner patient. Aiming to analyze the film alongside a cathode ray psculogram, the work, described in Endeavour, promises rapid advances in speech therapy.
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Royal Air Force
J. Y. Bogue
R.af
Dennis Fry
Imperial Chemical Industries
Swallows Leg-Banded Return To Dominion Station
Six young swallows trapped at the Dominion Experimental Station in Saanichton BC were leg-banded in 1943 before leaving the nest. A watch in 1944 found one returning bird bearing the metal band, proving at least one of the six returned to its birthplace to spend the summer.
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Dominion Experimental Station
Saanichton
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