Wheat In Canada Western Canadas Wheat Supremacy and Recovery
Western Canada has long led world wheat production with roots in Selkirk settlement and Marquis wheat. After wartime shifts to hogs, farmers are returning to wheat as acreage in Saskatchewan and Alberta rises, while Manitoba diversifies. Experts foresee continued wheat growth to meet global needs.
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Western
Canada
Selkirk
Scotland
Hudson Bay
York Factory
Lord Selkirk
Hudon's Bay Company
Britain
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Wool Clip Improvement In Western Canada This Year
The current review of agricultural conditions reports Western Canada domestic clips show marked fleece improvement over 1944. Bright grades mostly originate in British Columbia and Manitoba due to better moisture. Saskatchewan and Alberta wools trend semi Bright because of higher earth content and lower yield. Eastern domestic wools may grade better than 1944 with lighter shrinkage. Total fleece wool stored in registered warehouses reached 10,558,243 lbs in 1944, up 187,641 lbs from 1943.
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Canada
British Columbia
Manitoba
Sastkatchewan
Alberta
Quotes on Fortitude and Duty by Reform Thinkers
A compact collection of aphorisms from John Locke Abraham Lincoln Mary Baker Eddy Galatians and others praising steadfast duty faith and quiet endurance as marks of true courage. Writings compare moral strength to courage in danger and tests of prowess.
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John Locke
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Baker Eady
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Smile A While Oddball Punchlines From a Dreamy Page
An uneven miscellany of banter and jokes from a column titled Smile A While. Farmers, soldiers, a driver and a polite orphanage audience appear in short quips. A stray line hints at a wealth of a mind and a misplaced pin, ending with a curious line about a world coffee exporter.
Meat Coupons Now Available To Service Personnel
Readers on thirty day leave seek guidance on meat coupons. Meat coupons will be issued to service personnel via local ration boards with temporary ration cards. Ration registration for meat rings required. Meat coupons valid every Thursday until further notice. Those awaiting discharge may receive sugar for canning if a ration book is obtained by October 31 1945 and requests for preserves coupons are processed. Send questions or requests for Consumers News or the Blue Book to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board office in your province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consumers’ News
Prices and Trade Board
Loyalty and steadfastness of Northern Ireland praised by Churchill
The Belfast Telegraph notes that despite German threats Ulster has played a crucial wartime role. Churchill and other ministers publicly commend Ulster for harbor control and steadfast loyalty amid 1941 air raids. The province’s resilience under adversity is hailed as key to Britain’s fight against the submarine menace.
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Northern Ireland
Germany
Winston Churchill
Ulster
Britain
Belfast
Experimental high-frequency egg sterilizer at UC Davis
The Brandon Sun reports on an experimental eight high frequency machine at the University of California farm in Davis California. The device, between radio and diametry in principle, uses oscillations to cook an egg hard in about nine minutes but with a ten second exposure kills the germ and improves keeping quality. The shell bacteria are reduced and the albumen stiffens slightly making yolk stand when cracked. If commercialized it could improve appearance and preservation of eggs though experts make no claims yet.
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University of California
Davis
Calif
Brandon Sun
Clearing German Land Mines From Normandy and Brittany
The search continues for six to seven million unexploded German land mines buried in Normandy and Brittany since D-Day. Since then an average of 200 people, many children, are killed monthly, and by Aug 1 only about one-tenth had been removed by French workers and POWs trained by U.S. sapper teams. The operation is not expected to finish before 1947. An unrelated note warns that an overheated motor may result from a loose fan belt and should be checked seasonally.
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Normandy
Brittany
Germany
United States
T Jmne
Night Vision Pioneering CWAC S Sgt Pollock Story
S/Sgt Polly Pollock of Vinten Manitoba recalls wartime service in Night Vision with the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Trained at Vermilion and Kemptville, she led lectures and testing at Debert Nova Scotia, aiding soldiers headed overseas and potentially saving lives. She later served at Camp Shilo and Regina depot company awaiting civilian discharge.
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CwAe
Effie Pollock
Vinten
Manitoba
Set
Polly) Pollock
Prince Allert
Cupar Sask
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Regina
Sask
Vermilion
Alta
No. 3.Co
S Sgt
Pollock
Kemptville
Ont
Toronto
College of Optometry
Debert Transient Camp
Nova Scotia
Debert
Polly
Camp Shilo
Man
No. 112 Depot Coy. Cw.ac
Civvie Street
CWAC Education Tours In Germany Transport Units
Education tours for Canadian Women's Army Corps members in Germany are underway under Canadian Army Educational Services. CWACs visit Hamelin and Porta near Minden, touring local sites and an underground plant with Dutch guides. Captain Beatrice Munroe’s play Heroines of War won a Saskatchewan authors league prize, highlighting CWAC life. Pte Buttercup asks about post war plans as Pte Penelope quips with a gesture.
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WAC
Piedper
Germany
Canadian Women's Army Corps
Canadian Army Educational Services
CWAC
Hamelin
Porta
Minden
Holland
Phillips Trical
Beatrice D. Munroe
Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
Munroe
Egypt
India
West Indies
Canada
Toronto
Esterol
SHELL
Pte
Buttercup
Penelope
Banns
Honest Man Returns Thousand Dollar Bank Error
A bank, short by $1000 after balancing the day’s cheques, is restored when a stranger from a distant city returns the extra payment. The man, who identifies himself as Jewish, says he noticed the overage only after going home and brings the money back the next morning.
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St. Thomas Times-Journal
National Clothing Collection Drives for War-Ravaged Allies
The National Clothing Collection is a united effort by Canadian United Allied Relief Fund and UNRRA with provincial and local groups to gather used clothing for free distribution to destitute people in war-devastated Allied countries. The drive calls for usable winter and summer wear, wash before donating, and lists items such as suits, dresses, blouses, overcoats, scarves, footwear, and blankets.
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National Clothing
Canadian United Allied Relief Fund
UNRRA
United Nationa Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Canada
Roosevelt
Europe
Big Ben Symbol of Liberty Gives Comfort to Exiled French Airman
A London Daily Sketch letter from Paul Verdeois recalls a French airman’s wartime respect for Big Ben. He describes how chimes from Westminster’s tower echoed through German occupation, offering comfort and strength and signaling that liberty remained alive. The awe continues on his visit to London.
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London Daily Sketch
Big Ben
Westminster
Resistant Movement
Europe
London
Paris
Paul Verdeois
Malta mothers pledge care for 30 Canadian graves
Thirty-one Malta residents vow to tend the graves of 30 Canadians buried in the Second World War cemetery on the island fortress. Graves will be kept sodded and flowered, announced by John Giordmaine, vice-president of the Maltese Society of Toronto. General MacArthur used Bataan as the password to admit Japanese representatives to the Manila surrender conference.
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Malta
John Giordmaine
Maltese Society of Toronto
MacArthur
Bataan
Manilla
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