Back To The Land Movement Gains Momentum Across Canada
Ottawa Journal notes census shows 46 percent rural population with 54 percent in towns and cities. 32,767 farms vacant, 724,244 occupied farms up 2 percent since 1921. Describes Wesley Gordon led settlement scheme selling $11.5 million land to move 6,040 married and 12,682 single men to the countryside, totaling about 43,000 changed from urban relief to self-sustaining rural living. Mentions provincial uptake and hopes for growth.
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Canada
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Dominion
Wesley Gordon
Richard Churchill
MacLean’s Magazine
Gordon
Saskatchewan
Beginning Of Architecture Man Wanted To Protect Himself From Weather
Historians state early architecture arose to shield people from weather. Primitive shelters copied nests, lairs, and huts evolved from twig arbors to turf cover. Agriculturists likely built the first huts, while hunters used caves and shepherds developed tents for nomadic life.
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Central Asia
Worms Teach London Tubes How To Keep Water Out
Ship worms that damage piers and timbers taught London engineers to bore and line tunnel passages to resist water. The worm creates a half inch bore and coats it with a limelike substance to stay dry in damp wood. Studying this, engineers learned to line the bore as they advance to keep water out of clay. The worm chips away wood as it advances, passing small particles through its body.
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London
Young country girl trained for best path ends poorly
Mrs Miggs notes servants are independent and impertinent and suggests training a young country girl in the proper way. Mrs Biggs adds a sharp punchline, implying the plan backfires or is impractical.
Nervous Husband Learns Caution on First Car Drive
A wife counsels her husband George to calm his nerves during his inaugural car drive. She warns that other drivers share his fear, urging composure and safer behavior behind the wheel.
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George
Census Finds Ontario Farm Decline Amid Prairie Growth
Federal statisticians report 1921 to 1931 farm occupancy grew in the Prairie Provinces while Ontario and other eastern provinces declined. Ontario lost 6,748 farms 3.2 percent. Saskatchewan up 14.3 percent. Alberta 17.7 percent. British Columbia 18 percent. Provinial counts by province show totals and vacancy figures across Canada.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Dominion
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Cochrane
Perth
Temiskaming
Peel
Manitoba
British Scientists To Head Arctic Aurora Expedition
J M Stagg will lead a six member British team to Fort Rae NWT to study the aurora borealis as part of the second international polar year. The expedition will deploy two camps linked by telephone, record auroral activity, air currents and temperature with balloons and wireless instruments, while placing emphasis on radio research implications.
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Canada
Arctic
J. M Stagg
Fort Rae
N.W.T
International Meteorological Commission
Mr. Stagg
Great Britain
England
Montreal
Edmonton
Athabasca
Slave Rivers
Great Bear Lake
Tromsoe
Norway
Europe
Sugar Maples in Canada Reach Wide Range and Shade Tolerance
The Sugar maple in Canada extends from the Maritime Provinces to Lake of the Woods in Ontario. It can exceed 100 feet in height but averages 75 to 80 feet with 2 to 3 feet diameter. It grows in pure stands or with other hardwoods and is highly shade tolerant, aiding its reproduction and survival among species.
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Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Canada
Maritime Provinces
Lake of the Woods
Ontario
Ice Box of Mount Revelstoke
A boulder strewn cleft at the mountain top in Mount Revelstoke National Park holds the Ice Box a forty by four by ten feet snow and ice filled cavity sheltered from sun by rock walls. Painted signs guide tourists to this natural phenomenon.
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Mount Revelstoke
Mount Revelstoke National Park
British Columbia
Revival of Heavy Draft Horses Predicted in Canada
The Dominion animal husbandman notes low oats prices and rising fuel costs for tractors signal a shift back to horses as farm power. He forecasts a multiyear rise in heavy draft horse breeding across eastern and western Canada as depreciation, fuel, and repair costs favor horse use over machinery. A Nashville paper defines a citizen as one who seeks better roads, bigger schools, a new post office, and lower taxes, a sentiment Canada recognizes in its own familiarity with the type.
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Dominion Animal Husbandman
Canada
Nashville
Noted Conversation About Petrol and Elope Plan
A Madrid caption quotes a humorous exchange about fuel use and a wife’s suspected elopement plan. The line frames a light domestic moment from Buen Humor.
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Madrid
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Ottawa Journal
Nell
Bill
United States
France
Germany
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Maritimes
Mount Revelstoke Park
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
British Empire
Charles Camsell
Governor- General
Centre
F. W. Gray
Sydney
N.S
Institute
John A. Allan
University of Alberta
W. A. Gordon
Labour and Mines
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