Canada orders six frigates to replace St. Laurent destroyers
Canada signs a 3.2 billion contract to build six Halifax class frigates. keel laid July 1985, sea trials September 1988, in service by 1992. ships include Vancouver Ville de Quebec Toronto Regina Calgary Halifax. crew 225 each. top speed over 30 knots. range about 4500 nautical miles. armed with Sea Sparrow missiles and a Gatling gun.
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Halifax
Canada
Saint John Shipbuilding and Drydock Ltd
Vancouver
Ville de Quebec
Toronto
Regina
Calgary
New Brunswick
K. C. Irving
Marine Industries Ltd
Sorel
Iue
Klondike Boyle Buried in Woodstock Service Honors Canadian Hero
Canadian war hero Lt. Col. Joe Boyle laid to rest in Woodstock sixty years after death. About 200 attended a military funeral as 4th Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment fired a salute over Boyle’s coffin. His daughter Flora Frisch unveiled a ledger stone and a Romanian cross, noting Boyle’s wartime deeds from Russia to Romania and his Yukon mining fame.
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Woodstock
Ont
Klondike
Joe Boyle
Royal Canadian Regiment of London
Mains
Canada
England
King of
Frisch
Boyle
Marie
Romania
Joe
Dawson City
Frank Slavin
Monte Carlo
John J. Robinette
Post Office Warns of Dog Bite Problem for Mail Carriers
Ottawa CP reports that 1,400 dog bites to postal workers last year prompt Canada Post to warn the public of pet dangers. The Crown corporation may cut service to homes with bitten carriers, and will dispatch 8.5 million circulars urging pet control.
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Ottawa
Stewart Cooke
Post Office
Crown Corporation
Letter Carriers’ Union of Canada
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North Atlantic
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Defence
Gilles Lamontage
Jean- Jacques Blais
Klondike Boyle
Moscow
Flora Frisch
Long Island
N.Y
Canada Post
Clem Ler Ees
Gershaw Dr. S.W
Medicine Hat
Happy
Makamnik
Amur
Weber
Grassroots Nursery