Victoria Cross winners recount battlefield accident myth
A Canadian Press survey profiles 13 living WWI Victoria Cross recipients from Canada. Veterans like Ray Zengel recall the award as a battlefield accident, while others share modest, ambiguous memories of their actions and the recognition they received.
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Gerard McNeil
Ray Zengel
Rocky Mountain House
Alta
Zengel
Sebastopol
Britain
Northampton
Canada to stay out of permanent NATO naval force
Ottawa will decide against Canadian participation in a standing NATO naval force with a January start date. Informants say the decision will be on military grounds and signals political winds in Canada, amid debate over NATO and allied alliances. The plan would have Canada contribute a destroyer or air group if forces operate near Canadian waters.
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Ottawa
NATO
Canada
New Democratic Party
Canada-U.s. North American
Diefenbaker
Dalton Camp
Pearson
Camp
Atlantic
United States
Britain
Netherlands
Matchmaker
RCN
Shipping halts as talks continue on Great Lakes strike
Shipping on the Great Lakes and St Lawrence River slowed as 5,400 Seafarers' International Union members began a noon strike. About a quarter of 181 ships were tied up in Ontario and Quebec ports while negotiators met to resolve wage and scheduling demands, including a 40-hour week.
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Montreal
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence
Ontario
Quebec
SIU
Union
Edward Simard
Joseph Simard
Department of National Defence
Forest fires rage across British Columbia amid heat wave
The Canadian Press reports about 350 fires burning in British Columbia with the Nelson district hardest hit at 156 by Thursday. Vancouver Island areas face severe blazes and a 10 square mile fire near Port Alberni, cutting road access and isolating 3,000 coastal residents. Castlegar fire nears containment as a border blaze touches Creston. A provincial closure bans industrial and recreational activity in eastern Vancouver Island and most of the lower mainland.
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British Columbia
Nelson Forest District
Kamloops
Vancouver Forest District
Vancouver Island
Port Alberni
Macmillan Bloedel Ltd
Nelson
Idaho
Canada-U.s
Creston
B.C
Castlegar
Lower Mainland
Quebec radiologists clash over dispute with Health Minister
Montreal health minister Jean Paul Cloutier and Quebec Association of Radiologists will meet in Quebec City Tuesday to seek a settlement. In Detroit, 59 fires were deliberately set in the first 16 days of August after July riots, while Saigon reports near record U S air strikes on North Vietnam near the DMZ with B 52 raids and naval shelling.
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Montreal
Jean-paul Cloutier
Quebec Association of Radiologists
Quebec City
Detroit
Saigon
U.S. Command
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
North
South Vietnam
Police seek man in Saskatchewan family slaying
RCMP in Shell Lake Saskatchewan issued an all points bulletin for a man linked to the brutal killing of James Peterson 47 Evelyn 42 and seven of their nine children aged one to 17 at their rural home. Sgt Songergaard described the investigation as wide open with 27 shots fired and evidence of reloads and powder burns. A trust fund was set up Thursday to aid surviving daughter Phyllis 4 with funeral costs.
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Shell Lake, Sask
RCMP
Ronald E. Songergaard
Brian Sawyer
Calgary
Saskatoon
James Peterson
Evelyn
England Wide Crime Ring Frays London Officials
Britain reels from a Britain wide crime wave with Bren guns and bomb detonators in play. Scotland Yard pursues a London gold robbery, a smuggling scheme moving illegal Indian and Pakistani immigrants from France to Britain, and a gun charges case against Seamus O Riain in London court.
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London
High Seas
English Channel
Scotland Yard
Ers
France
Britain
Kent
Birmingham
Switzerland
Seamus O’riain
Judge questions jail terms in Hay River inquiry
Mr Justice William Morrow pressed the North West Territories inquiry on justice administration in Hay River. He cited a young girl jailed over liquor offences and questioned data showing racial disparities in jail and fines among white and Metis or Indian teenagers.
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Hay River
N.W.T
William Morrow
Royal Commission
Administration of Justice
Northwest Territories
Hay
Justice Morrow
Rudy Steiner
Steiner
Donald Taylor
Tapwe
Stax Commission
D. C. McDonald
Edmonton
Taylor
Gers
RCMP
Nelligan Captured by Coutts RCMP Near Border
John Joseph Nelligan 21 from the Maritimes was apprehended near Coutts after escaping from Lethbridge jail with five others. The six broke out Tuesday night, four were caught at Milk River, two near Lethbridge on Thursday. Nelligan held a 30 month sentence for break in and entry and assault in Medicine Hat. He was considered dangerous. Tracking dogs, road blocks and search parties aided the manhunt.
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John Joseph Nelligan
Coutts
Lethbridge
Nelligan
Gordon Rowley
RCMP
Milk River
Coaldale
Maritimes
Medicine Hat
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Regina
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Halifax
Leonard McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Nicholson
Bitter End
Bonnie and al
Fairbanks
An At
B.C. Forest Service
Vancouver
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