Immigrant Farmers Face Challenges in Ontario Assimilation
A Hungarian immigrant in Elgin discusses assimilation of European newcomers in Ontario's tobacco districts. He notes older generations resist change, while younger immigrants seek Canadian citizenship and integration though some risk overestimating their status as landowners. He warns against rapid land ownership and urges respectful adherence to Canadian laws and customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontar
El’gin
Norfolk
St Thomas Times-Journal
Times-Journal
Ontario
Hungary
Canada
United States
Drifting Apart Knowledge Between Dominions
Dr William M Whitelaw Dominion archives staff who visited Australia warned a local service club that Canada and Australia are drifting apart in mutual understanding. He blamed widespread ignorance across the dominions and questioned imperial cohesion and the value of trade-only contacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Menzies Whitelaw
Dominion Archives
Australia
Canada
Mounties Suggested as Canada's National Emblem
The letter writers in Canada and observers in Britain urge using the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as Canada's symbol for national memorials and potential flag designs. They argue Mounties captivate public imagination more than beavers or maple leaves and would provide a clear, identifiable mark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Old Country
Glasgow Exhibition
Canada
Liverpool
RCMP
Horse Guards
Whitehall
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Teetotaller MP’s Humble Beginnings Mocked
The tale follows a self satisfied politician who boasted of royal ancestry wealth and status. A sharp friend ridicules him by contrasting claims of noble birth family wealth and sobriety with past humiliations. The exchange ends with the politician threatening legal action.
Dummy Officers on Roads Proposed by Toronto Funeral Director
N A McDougall, a Toronto funeral director, asks Ontario highways officials to install life size wood and paint effigies of police on motorcycles at curves hills and dangerous stretches to encourage safer driving. He notes the replicas would appear real until close and cites interest from the Ontario Safety League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. A. McDougall
Toronto
Ontario Highways Department
McDougall
Highways Department
Ontario Safety League
Gold Loot From Lutine Wreck Recovered at Sea
Salvagers aboard the Netherlands dredger Karimata recovered Spanish coins from the British frigate Lutine wrecked in 1799 near the Zuyder Zee. Lloyds funded the salvage. total treasure estimated near 10 million dollars, with about 275 thousand dollars already recovered. Coins believed to belong to passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zuyder Zee
Hamburg
Netherlands
Karimata
Lloyd's
London Insurance Corporation
Lutine
Dredging at Goderich Delays Start by Superstition
A harbor deepening project in Goderich Ontario postponed starting on a Friday after a dredging firm scooped earth on a Thursday to avoid bad luck. The column then mocks superstitions and notes the value of a hypothetical match and ends with a quip about King crabs.
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Goderich
Ont
History Revived at Fort Beausejour Honors Maritime Hero
The ceremony at Fort Beausejour saluted Major Thomas Dixson's reinterred ashes after 192 years. A lone French cannon boomed over Tantramar marshes and a bell tolled recalling Abbe Loutre as speakers praised Dixson’s heroism defending Beausejour.
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Maritime
Fort Beausejour
Tantramar
Abbe Loutre
Thomas Dixson
Canada
Bay of Fundy
Beausejour
End Of Drouth Era Weather Shifts To Rain Across Continent
Dominion meteorologist A J Connor reports rain favored across Canada from January to July and notes heavier rainfall follows drought years in Saskatchewan and US regions. Zeppelin LZ-130, sister to Hindenburg, measures 804 feet, holds 7 million cubic feet of helium, has 7000 mile range, and carries 40 passengers.
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Drouth
A. J. Connor
Dominion Meteorolgical Bureau
Connor
Canada
Saskatchewan
United States
Mr. Connor
Prehistoric mural by Reid at Toronto museum
A 77 year old Canadian artist C A Reid R C A has completed a wall mural at the Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology in Toronto. The 34 panel work spans a nine by 35 foot largest panel and covers four years of effort. It depicts the milky way solar system and earth moon formation with early plant water insect and reptile life including toothed birds beside giant plant eating dinosaurs.
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Toronto
C. A. Reid
R.C.A
Royal Ontario Museum of Palaeontology
Reid
Silent Audubon Veteran Keeps Vow Since 1887
An Audubon Iowa man, silent for 50 years after his bride fled the altar in 1887, wears his wedding suit to church weekly. A priest confronts a suitor, and a comic exchange unfolds about a proposal and a parcel delivery to a man in the flat above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon
Iowa
Thrifty Way Lobster Shells and Housekeeper Quips
A collection of short humorous exchanges includes a lecturer explaining shell growth to a girl with a buttering joke from a lodger, a landlady noting a clean kitchen, and a job applicant remarking on inexperience. The items showcase light banter and domestic wit.
Mental Cases Rise in Canada as Overcrowding Grows
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics report shows 39 833 patients in 57 institutions at end of 1936 plus 3 247 absent, total 43 080. Increase stems from admissions exceeding discharges and deaths, with Western provinces most overcrowded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Air Raid Horrors at London Zoo Described in Sun
A London despatch in the Sun outlines wartime plans for the London Zoo in case of an air raid. Dangerous animals would be shot if released. venomous snakes would be killed unless rare and stored in metal boxes. The piece argues modern war erodes civilization and disrupts hospitals, water, and power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
London Zoo
Baltimore Sun
Practical Loyalty to Simonstown Defenses Cited
Rand Daily Mail argues South Africa bears land defense for Simonstown, a bigger boon to the British Navy than £85,000 yearly grants. The UK admits it would not surrender this effort for half a million a year, praising Capetown harbor plans as strengthening the Empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
South Africa
Rand Daily Mail
Johannesburg
Simonstown
Capetown
Trouble In Sight Drive Lesson Ends With Comical Panic
A gallant husband teaches his nervous wife to drive on a narrow country road. She shouts to take the wheel as she spots a tree approaching, prompting a quick handoff and a relieved chuckle.
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Johnny
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Hallo
M.P
William the Conqueror
Montreal Star
France
Lebrun
Paris
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Mercury
Ireland
Montreal
Royal Museum
Jack
Lixiger
Boas
St. Lawrence
Western
Empire Defence
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