New 27th Brigade Formed With Canadian Leaders Named
Brig Geoffrey Walsh named to command Canada’s new 27th Brigade group with headquarters at Valcartier Quebec. Lt Col John Mahony VC named to lead the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion. Lt Col Rutherford 1st Canadian Highland Battalion. Lt Col Cutbill 1st Canadian Rifle Battalion. The brigade aims for 5,500 men and support for Eisenhower’s Atlantic Pact army in Europe.
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Spitsbergen
China
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New Westminster
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Ont
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Canda
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Que
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Mahony
V.C
Melfa
Italy
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Vancouver
Queens Own
Cameron Highlanders
Canadian Highland Battalion
Edward W. Cutbill
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Canadian Rifle Battalion
Cutbill
Poland
Collision toll rises to twelve in French trawler wreck
Reports say twelve people died in yesterday’s foggy collision between two French fishing trawlers off Grangs Banks. Other items note Allied shipping pooling plans, Swedish mine collapse trapping miners, atomic tests at Eniwetok, King’s influenza, Mount Royal tuition rise, and a bomb threat in Dublin.
Fear High Death Toll As Trawlers Collide
HALIFAX CP The French fisheries patrol vessel L Aventure en route to St Johns Nfld with unknown survivors from a collision yesterday between two French trawlers on the Grand Banks. The death toll is expected to be high with two known dead and 10 missing reported and the exact circumstances unclear. The Ginette Le Borgne and Jacques Coeur collided in fog about 150 miles southeast of Cape Race in a busy fishing area.
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L’aventure
St. John’s
Grand Banks
Ginette le Borgne
Jacques Coeur
le Borgone
Cape Race
Nfld
Dead young Canadian runner after starting gun blast
Paul Vamplew, 17, one of Canada's rising middle distance stars, died after a blank cartridge fired from a revolver held by coach Lloyd Percival discharged at Pantry Park in Toronto. Autopsy showed heart rupture caused fatal hemorrhage from the blast.
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Toronto
Paul Wemplew
Lloyd Percival
W. L. Christie
Vamplew
Christie
Pantry Park
Smirl Lawson
World Health Body Drafts Rules for Mecca Pilgrims
The World Health Organization drafts new health rules for the Mecca pilgrimage to reduce epidemics and protect locals. Proposals include medical coverage of at least one doctor per 1,000 pilgrims and improved sanitary conditions with WHO assistance.
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Mecca
Oscar Ribeiro
Geneva
Switzerland
Reuters
World Health Organization
Asia
World Health Assembly
Holy Land
Hedjaz
Mohamet
Saudi Arabia
W.H.O
Pension Conference Reaches General Agreement On Old Age Aid
Ottawa reports a two day federal provincial conference ended with general agreement to draft legislation for an enlarged old age pension program. Provinces and federal government would share costs 50 50 for those aged 65 to 69. A separate plan already provides 40 monthly dollars to seniors 70 plus with 20 years in Canada.
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Ottawa
Canada
Smilestones After All Is Said and Done
A reflective line notes that despite efforts being completed, talk often outweighs actual accomplishment, suggesting activities end with more discussion than action.
Railroad Collision Kills Six CN Employees in Quebec
Six Canadian National Railway workers died in a head on collision between a freight train and a ballast train on the Quebec Cochrane line between Dix and Langlade. Five others were injured, two of whom were evacuated by plane to Val d Or.
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Riviere du Loup
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Loretteville
H. Stafford
Montreal
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Diviere A Pierre
L. Desjardins
Senneterre
Henri-Louis Bolduc
Quebec
Kelly Delisle
J. A. L. Lasante
Parent
Val D’or
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Dix
Val D'or Hospital
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Expect Grasshoppers To Jump in June
Hordes of grasshoppers will invade prairie grain fields in days marking the start of a summer long feast on farmers incomes. Poison will be spread as bait or sprayed to halt the hatch of eggs laid last fall. Hatching is expected to be general in Saskatchewan and Manitoba by month end and in Alberta during the first week of June, with hot weather accelerating the process.
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Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Arthur M. Wilson
Canadians Celebrate Victoria Day In Traditional Style
Canadians marked Victoria Day with fireworks and outdoor leisure across central Canada while rain dampened Maritimes and Pacific coast. Tens of thousands attended baseball and racing events in Toronto and Montreal as Ottawa welcomed a British gift chandelier at Rideau Hall. Ten people died nationwide in accidents, including two near Montreal and six in Northwest Quebec train wrecks. three and six and three-year-olds Claire and Gerard Ste Marie were among the Montreal area fatalities.
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Pacific Coast
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Montreal
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Canada
Victoria
House of Commons
Quebec
British Columbia
Claire Ste. Marie
Gerard
St. Constant
Que
New British Oil Refineries Will Ease Dollar Problems
FAWLEY England AP Britain and the United States push to complete Europe s largest oil refinery six months early. The 37.5 million pound project by Anglo American Esso will produce 1 000 000 gallons of gasoline daily and supply 25 percent of UK refined output. Crude from the Near East feeds the plant reducing Britain's dollar outlay for oil products.
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England
Britain
United States
Europe
Anglo-American Oil Co
Esso Petroleum Co
Standard Oil Co
N.J
United Kingdom
U.S
Esso
Shell
Stanlow
Shellhaven
Coryton
American Vacuum Oil Company
Winds Ease Across Alberta as Showers Spark Thunder
Strong overnight winds in Alberta ease Saturday though remain gusty in Saskatchewan. Scattered showers develop across all regions this afternoon with a chance of a thunderstorm this evening. Temperature held steady as cool air flows over the prairies.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Prairies
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