Winnipeg Leads Prairie Cities With Expansive Park System
The article notes Winnipeg claims more and better parks than any prairie city aided by immigrant English and Ontario settlers who built the park system after 1900. It highlights major parks like Kildonan Assiniboine and Central, discusses zoo expansion debates, and praises the Parks Board for maintaining greenery that draws regional use while resisting sale to nearby municipalities.
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Winnipeg
Praire
Ontario
England
Kildonan
Assinibone
Central Park
Assinniboine Park
Tuxedo
Assiniboine
St. James
Charleswood
Kildonan Park
St. Paul
St. Andrews
Manitoba
Winnipegere
Lake Winnipeg
Hudson’s Bay Company
CPR
West
The Great Blizzard of 1886 87 in the Plains
The article recounts a severe Montana blizzard era with massive cattle losses, frozen livestock, and human deaths. It notes six inches of snow on November 16 and minus forty six degrees in January, followed by a spring round-up that yielded a dismal, sorrowful recovery. It also compares a smaller but similar disaster among southern Alberta ranchers in 1907 with deep snow and mass starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Texas
Alberta
Northbound Trek By Three Aims At Arctic Delta
A 2,500 mile northern expedition leaves Edmonton by car for Peace River with Harry Aleson of Richfield Utah Harry Sparkes of West Orange New Jersey and Maureen Henderson of Aldershot Ontario. They will sail two U S Navy powered rafts on the Peace Slave and Mackenzie rivers toward Aklavik near the Arctic Ocean and plan plane flips toward the North Pole before returning to Peace River in September.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Harry Aleson
Richfield
Utah
Colorado River
Harry
Pete) Sparkes
West Orange
N.J
Carnegie Technical College
Pittsburgh
Maureen Henderson
Aldershot
Peace River
Peace, Slave
Mackenzie Rivers
Aklavik
Mackenzie River
Arctic Ocean
Grand Canyon
North Pole
Akiavik
Arctic Circle
Gulf Waters Warmer by Nine Degrees Than Atlantic
A report notes the Gulf of Mexico water runs about nine degrees warmer than the Atlantic Ocean. The difference is cited in marine observations and may affect currents and regional climate patterns.
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Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Penguin hatchling instinct questions ice clutching behavior
Penguins display a broodiness that leads them to guard and incubate ice clumps. The observation notes emphasize their strong tendency to treat cold chunks as potential nests, reflecting unusual nesting behavior in harsh environments.
St Helena seeks Canadian aid amid economic crisis
R A Thorpe, St Helena’s sole industrialist, visits the Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce to drum up buyers for the island’s hand made lace and race exports as plantations wane and mills close. He notes roads are maintained but work is scarce, and Napoleon’s home Longwood is being restored.
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South Atlantic
Napoleon
St Helena
R. A. Thorpe
Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce
St. Helena
Capetown
Waterloo
Thorpe
Sir Winston Churchill
Colonial Office
St. Helenian
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
Longwood
France
Junk industry grows on prairie waste sales in Calgary
Calgary’s secondary materials sector expands as junk dealers profit from scrap iron and non ferrous metals. About 35,000 tons of scrap iron is salvaged annually, supporting 100 direct jobs and widespread collecting. Non ferrous metals like copper and zinc drive big earnings in the trade.
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Calgary
Prairies
Australia
Alberta
Bridge match at Monte Carlo ends with six clubs doubled
In the 1954 world championship there was a deal where Karl Schneider and his Austrian partner represented South Besse and North as the bidding reached Six Clubs. East led Ace then a low card, allowing South to win A. Despite East swinging to unbid suits, the USA pair failed to hold in Six Spades and were doubled, costing 700.
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Monte Carld
Karl Schneider
Besse
East
West
Fule
USA
Cowboy makes leather earrings in Moose Jaw
Big Johnny Sinclair, a tough Saskatchewan rider, crafts miniature leather earrings and cowboy boots as a hobby. He rides professionally in rodeos and holds an amateur light heavyweight wrestling title. At 28, he began riding and breaking horses young, commuting seven miles to school by horse.
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Moose Jaw
Sask
Johnny Sinclair
West
Milady
Saskatchewan
Johnny
Blue Book shows CN timetables and traveler tips
The Canadian National blue book, an 84 page traveler’s compendium, lists nearly 1,400 railway services, stations from Abbotsford to Zama and other travel aids. It details routes, cars, sleeping accommodations, fares, and hotel info, with revisions from regional timetables and public folders. A second item notes Ontario and Alberta agriculture, including Peter McQueen’s three year old orange tree bearing fruit in Medicine Hat.
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Canadian National
North America
Canada
United States
Abbotsford
Que
Xena
Zambia
Saskatchewan
Montreal
Halifax
Montreli
C.N.R
CNR
Grand Trunk Western
U.S. Newfoundland
Central Region
Quebec City
Passenger Service Bureau
Vancouver
Medicine Hat
Alta
Alberta
Peter McQueen
Coyote Hunting Proves More Prolific for Mike Yacioow
In Alta's Good Hunting region Mike Yacioow and his four hounds expanded their coyote kills from 133 last year to 188 this year reflecting rising hunting success and skills.
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Wostok
Alta
Mike Yacioowski
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Prairie City
Party of Three
North
Caribbean
Pacific
Atlantic Island
M. Harrison
Cray
Sher
Cowboy
Newéest
Ottawa
Jasper
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