Canadian Forest Week Promotes Forest Conservation
Canada marks Canadian Forest Week from April 24 to 36 to curb forest fires and wasteful cutting. The program urges sustained effort to conserve a resource worth about 169 million dollars annually, with 2 500 sawmills and 4 million cords of pulpwood produced, while fire has destroyed sixty percent of the forest heritage.
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Canada
Forestry Industry of
Smuter
Dominion
United States
Natural Resources Intelligence Service
Department of the Interivgr
Ottawa
The Douglas Fir of British Columbia and Coast
The Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, native to British Columbia and the Pacific coast, is Canada’s largest tree and likely yields more lumber annually than any other single species. It grows west of the Rockies, mainly in the coast region of BC, and is used for structural timbers, interior finish, railway and mining timbers, prized for strength, durability, and large dimensions.
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British Columbia
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Canada
America
Rocky Mountains
Land Leases Grow in Saskatchewan Under Petrolean Rules
During the fiscal year ended April 1926, over 91 acres of land in Saskatchewan were leased under federal petrolean and gas regulations. A large acreage has since been placed under lease in the Lloydminster district where wells are being drilled for oil and gas.
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Saskatchewan
Lloydminster
Fm Quest
Trouole Lois and the ash stained flowers exchange
Lois and Louise discuss flowers given by Herbert with Louise revealing she threw them in the ash can yesterday. The brief dialogue hints at a secret or unresolved motive around the gift and its ash disposal.
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Lois
Herbert
Louise
Neglecting the Three R s Question On Student Readiness
A Toronto Globe opinion questions whether today’s students are well prepared. It argues only one in five may be good writers, faults present education’s shift from fundamentals reading writing arithmetic to broader methods, noting less discipline and more avoidance of drudgery.
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Ontario
Torerto Globe
Successful Year for the Swine Industry
Canada’s swine industry had a strong year in 1926 with higher prices and value per hog despite a smaller herd. Fed eral grading sold 2,754,500 hogs at stockyards and packing plants, down from 2,883,400 in 1925, yet the average price per head rose and overall value increased. The report notes potential for greater sales if supply matched demand.
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Canada
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Average Life Expectancy Seen At Seventy By Doctor
Dr John James Richard Macleod of Toronto Nobel prize winner for medicine in 1925 says average life length will not reach 100 years. He notes the human machine wears out like a mechanical engine and credits disease combat for extending lifespan by nearly three decades.
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John James Richard Macleod
Toronto
Try and Get It Another Intriguing Problem
A historical teaser from Richard Henry Little presents a bank withdrawal puzzle. Start with a $50 deposit and follow a sequence of withdrawals: $20 to leave $30, $15 to leave $15, $9 to leave $6, and $6 to leave $0. The humor hints at an extra dollar.
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Richard Henry
Placer Mining in B C Noted by BC Mines Official
Mr Douglas Lay resident engineer for the British Columbia Department of Mines spoke in Smithers about placer mining in the Cariboo district. He cited Cedar Creek Mining Company as having found rich pockets of nuggets last year ranging from pea sized to 49 ounces with some as large as an egg.
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Smithers
Douglas Lay
British Columbia Department of Mines
Cedar Creek Mining Company
Cariboo
Lay
Homestead Entries Rise in Early 1927 Totals
Homestead entries for January and February 1927 reach 629, up from 552 in the same period of 1926. Manitoba posts 71 versus 54, Saskatchewan 236 versus 290, Alberta 213 versus 200, and British Columbia 9 versus 8. An ending quip reflects a cautious note on certainty and broad doubt.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Importance Of The Navy Emphasized By Rear Admiral Sterr
Rear Admiral W. Sterr told the Empire Club in Toronto that Canada cannot alone provide all naval professions for its commerce and urged a united empire navy to keep sea lanes open. He argued Canada could fund a force to defend ports of entry and contribute to cruisers for trade route policing, stressing a strong navy as essential to peace and safety of the British Empire.
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Canada
W. 0. Sterr
BE. Tretireds
Empire Club
Toronto
Story
Buttermilk Favors Hatchability in Hens at Morden Station
An experiment at the Morden Manitoba Experimental Station found higher hatchability from eggs of hens fed buttermilk. Two pens of Barred Rocks received different feeds. 86 eggs per pen were set. The buttermilk group yielded 68 chicks versus 42 from the meat scrap group.
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Morden
Manitoba
Prairie trees thrive in tough conditions across provinces
Tests at Forest Nursery stations of the Forestry Branch show hardy conifers including spruce pine jack pine Scotch pine and larch suit prairie planting and perform well under adverse conditions. These trees are now widely planted throughout the prairie provinces.
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Forestry Granc
Department of the Interior
Demand for Hogs and Canadian Pork in Britain Market 1926
The 1926 Live Stock Market and Meat Trade Review reports steady improvement in hog quality for British buyers while Canadian supplies often proved inadequate to meet demand. Denmark and several European nations offered heavy pork, with Canada’s bacon exports to Britain falling due to limited supply.
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Decatnion Department of Arricnttare
Tiv Lane
Ame
Denmark
Carmada
Britain
Canada
Latvia
Poland
Holland
Sweden
Three life periods and a Hungarian revival
Bedford recalls a saying that a successful man has three periods with time, money, and inclination. In Hungary an elder Ivy gentleman seeks rejuvenation but fails as his insurer stops annuities. A man arrested for vagrancy has a pinched look.
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Bedford
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Hungary
New York Times
Jasper Park Lodge: A World Class Summer Resort
The article extols Jasper Park Lodge beside Lac Beauvert in the Athabaska Valley as a premier summer retreat with panoramic mountain scenery. It highlights the lodge’s blend of natural beauty and modern conveniences, plus images of the open-air pool, Mount Edith Cavell view, trails, and Lac Beauvert foreground with the Colin Range in the background.
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Jasper Park Lodge
Jasper
Lac Beauvert
Athabaska Valley
Jasper Park Lodges
Mount Edith Cavell
Colin Range
Dairymen urged to weigh test milk and cull cows
A dairy expert argues for replacing guesswork with weighing and testing milk, feeding by production, and removing low producers. Emphasizing clean milk and sanitary barns, the piece claims higher production boosts returns and warns against nonparticipants in cow testing associations.
How to Produce Clean Milk
A Dominion Department of Agriculture pamphlet urges producers to control milk contamination through simple sanitary measures. It notes 99 percent of contamination is self caused and emphasizes careful handling, even with crude equipment, to deliver clean milk.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Hydroelectric Growth in Canada Surpasses Milestone
The Water Power and Reclamation Service reports over one million horsepower of hydro energy developed in Canada in the past two years. Ontario 332000 Quebec 600600 Manitoba 183000 British Columbia 10000 Nova Scotia 12000. A Catholic colonists party of about 66 families sailed to Saint John aboard the Pt liner Martoch and reached Winnipeg under Father Keirdorf guiding the German Immigrant Association and Canada Colonization Association.
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Water Power and Reclamation Service
Department of the Interio
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Manitoba
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Winnipeg
Could Supply World With Apples
Apples may be grown across Canada and could supply the world market. Dominion apples are praised for flavor color and long keeping quality and demand from other countries grows as they gain recognition.
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Canada
Dominion
Reindeer Stock Grows Rapidly in Alaska
An original stock of about 1200 reindeer imported from Siberia in 1902 has expanded to about 250000 animals, making reindeer grazing a key factor in the north. Over one million pounds of reindeer meat were exported from Alaska last year.
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Alaska
Siberia
Saskatoon and Robin Hood Mills plan flour milling plant
The city of Saskatoon and Robin Hood Mills Limited agree on a 506000 dollar flour milling facility. The company owns a ten acre site on the city’s north side and intends to erect four buildings an elevator a flour mill a warehouse and office buildings.
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Saskatoon
Robin Hood Mills, Limited
Life extension tied to animal study in medicine
Dr. Simon Flexner traces a thirty year gain in life span to animal research at the Rockefeller Institute and New York health center. He cites blood pressure measurement and drugs such as digitalis quinine vaccines and insulin as outcomes, and urges controlled use of new light based therapies through animal experiments to curb pain and costs.
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Simon Flexger
Public Health
Ceuteil
New York State Department of Health
Rockhefeller Institute For Medical Research
Flexner
Radio Upsets Timepieces at Savoy Dockside
A nearby radio station operation has disrupted clocks at the Savoy hotel in London leading to the layoff of Dill Jenny who for years wound the clocks. The hotel installed an electrical clock-control system and he receives a pension of 100 dollars annually.
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Savoy Hotel
London
British Broadcasting Company
Dill Jenny
French-Canadians Return From U S To Canada In 1925–27
The hon. J B Perrault reports 42 292 French Canadians returned to Canada from the United States between July 1925 and April 1926 and 50 598 expatriated children went to Quebec from April 1926 to January 1927 to establish homes.
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Canada
United States
Quebec
New England
J. &. Perrault
Marconi wireless beam system rapid London Australia exchange
Reports say messages were exchanged between London and Australia via the Marconi wireless beam system with replies arriving in about twenty minutes. Marconi engineers predict the system may soon enable telephone-like communication within a year.
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London
Australia
Marconi
Copper Claims in Northern Manitoba Attract Drilling
Northern Manitoba firm Northern Manitoba Mime N. A. Timmins Inc and MMollinges Consolidated have taken an option on copper claims on Almee Lake. They plan considerable diamond drilling this summer with Hoo M. Whinister, ME in charge of the work.
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N. A. Timmins, Inc
Mmollinges Consolidated
Almee Lake
Manitoba
Hoo M. Whinister
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