Mine Detector Team Finds Site of old North West Company Post
The Mine Detector Squad confirmed the Fort Carlton site and nearby Hudson Bay Company South Branch House remains with metal artifacts such as nails stoves kettles and pots recovered. Captain Max Wiminitz and Ian Collina of the Prince Albert Historical Society aided surveys noting locations of North West Company and Hudson’s Bay posts along the Saskatchewan river system.
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Mr. Herbert
Ian Collina
Prince Albert
Mm Herbert
Reserve Army Engineers
Hudson's Bay South Branch House
A. 8. Morton
University of Saskatchewan
North West Company
South
Fort Carlton
Carlton House
Hudson's Bay Company
Saskatchewan
North Branch
Ie la Crosse
Riel
North West
Bay Post
Bay South Branch
William Tomison
Hudson's House
Nisbet Forest
Mitchell Oman
York Factory
Hudson's Bay
South Branch
Home Workshop Pattern Service offers simple building plans
A family friendly table bench unit pattern requires only a hammer and saw with cutting diagrams to minimize waste. Additional packets include Lawn and Garden Furniture and Bird Houses. Pattern 289 for the circus figures uses 35 cents each and ships from Prairie Publishers Vancouver.
Oddities from The News
A roundup of oddities includes Ralph Wilkinson winning a prize for a pet show entry with an ant in Richfield Springs New York. In California Leon Morrison surrenders a jammed .38 revolver at Chula Vista police after nine bullets remain in the barrel. A Welsh museum will feature a rural house combining cowhouse stable and living rooms under one roof. An Arkansas observer notes two boys ordering hot water with spoons and coffee from a jar. A Maine family sends a jet black horse to summer camp after it refuses to eat while eight year old Roberta leaves for camp.
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Richfield Springs
N.Y
Ralph
Skippy) Wilkinson
Leon Morrison
Chula Vista
San Diego
Morrison
Wales
Welsh Folk Museum
William H. Howard
West Falmouth
Prince
Roberta Howard
Howard
Cyclists End Long Trip Across Canada
Jack Weavell and Hazel Weavell Manchester newlyweds finish a 3150 mile coast to coast bicycle trek across Canada in 78 days arriving in Vancouver. They began from Quebec City 98 days prior and averaged 40 miles daily. The journey cost about 640 dollars and included two punctures a worn rear wheel broken spokes and a broken tandem back axle. They stayed with Harry S. Harvey who rode the last leg from Hope, B C.
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Vancouver
Jack Weavell
Hazel
Manchester
England
Canada
Quebec City
Weavells
Harrys
Harvey
Hope
B.C
Jack
United Kingdom
Ready for TV in Kamsack district
J M Dutthyshyn owns the area’s likely first television set not yet in operation. He plans a trial soon using the radio part and notes local dealer interest in television sets though no other sales are reported.
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T.V. Kamsack
J. M. Duthhyshyn
Dutthyshyn
Federal Aid Moves BC to Standardize Fire Hose Gear
Ottawa announced a cost sharing agreement in which the federal government will pay one third of the work up to 82000 dollars to standardize fire hose connections and couplings in British Columbia. The plan aims to allow easy interchanges of equipment during civil defence emergencies. Ontario and Alberta have similar programs, making BC the third province to join.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Paul Martin
W. D. Black
Ontario
Alberta
Alaska Town Gets Ice From Glacier
Fairbanks faces an ice shortage as the city diges into a glacier 300 miles away to fill highball glasses. Ice supply from local ponds dwindled from 1000 tons to about 600 tons by summer, driving prices from 2.30 to 3.00 dollars per 100 pounds. The glacier is about 18 million years old and the haul highlights a long-distance emergency.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Winnipeg man misreads roadside dog as wolf
George Buss a Winnipeg commercial traveller on his first northern trip stopped to pat a dog by the road. He quickly retreated after realizing the animal was a grey wolf snarling and snapping.
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George Buss
Winnipeg
Appealing Summer Orange Salad Recipe
A simple warm day salad plan features orange half slices arranged on curly lettuce with cottage cheese nests and cherries. It pairs with a lemon French dressing made from lemon juice oil sugar salt and pepper, yielding about one cup.
Iron on vintage patterns for kitchen motifs
White Brookes offers iron on transfers with polka dot strawberries plaid eggplant checked radishes and more in sunny yellow garden green and vivid red. Pattern 7136 includes six motifs about 44 by 41 inches each. Send twenty five cents to obtain this pattern.
Pattern request notice from Toronto craft book offer
Household Arts Department at 60 Front Street West Toronto promotes TEN COMPLETE PATTERNS to sew embroider crochet and printed in the Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book. Includes gifts home accessories toys fashions send 25 cents for patterns and requesting name address and pattern number.
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Prairie Publishers Limited
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Saskatchewan duo to represent at Royal Winter Fair
Neil and Allan Muirhead of Shellbrook will represent Saskatchewan in the national 4-H Beef Club at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this fall. The Shellbrook team won the regional event at the University of Saskatchewan with 56 district winners. Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin of France made the first feminine solo balloon ascent in 1799.
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Saskatoon
Neil
Allan Muirhead
a _ Shellbrook
Saskatchewan
Toronto
Shellbrook
University of Saskatchewan
Jeanne Geniveve Garnerin
France
Machinery Cost Charts Details For Harvesting Operations
A Saskatchewan study outlines how to compute operating costs for grain harvesting gear. It cites a Dominion circular on cost charges and provides sample per hour costs for a 1952 self propelled pick up thresher at 5.85 dollars, a 1700 dollar swather at 5.00 dollars, and a forage harvester at 5.18 dollars per hour.
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Dominion Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Thompson and
Wenhardt
Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Brandon
Far East Markets Expand for Canadian Flour
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool official C. S. Fisher reports Canadian flour gaining ground in Far East markets once dominated by the U.S. and Australia. He notes a shift in the Philippines toward a 60 40 Canadian U.S. flour mix and cites widespread rice shortages boosting bread demand and Japan importing a grade 5 wheat flour for noodles.
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Saskatoon
C. S. Fisher
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Fisher
Far East
Japan
Philippines
Thailand
Malay Straits
Ceylon
India
Egypt
Italy
England
Scotland
U.S
Canada
Alberta abandons permanent license plates plan
Alberta government ends its experiment with permanent plates and will issue new plates each year. The move follows British Columbia where tabs were abandoned. Officials cited damage to front plate surfaces and frequent replacements as a key reason for stopping the program.
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Edmonton
Alberta
British Columbia
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Old North West Company
Home Workshop Pattern Service
West Fifth Ave
Leonard Cox
Harrisburg
Ark
United States Manufactur
Missouri
Kansas
Marshall
Saline County
Little Billy
W. W. Marshall
Joe Marshall
Federal Assistance For Civil Defence
Glacier
By White Brookes
Royal Winter Fair
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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