Aerial Survey of Wood Buffalo Park Reveals Vast Grazing Lands
An aerial survey over Wood Buffalo Park near Fort Smith Northwest Territories documents park boundaries measures 175 by 190 miles and a buffalo herd near 8 000 animals after transfers from Manitou and Wainwright areas. The operation used two seaplanes from Ladder Lake Saskatchewan to Chipewyan and will aid future park development and water management.
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Wood Buffalo Park
Eetliers Hall of Wood
Suffaly Park
Fort Smith
Northwest
Terriories
Northnset Territories
Province of
Alberta
Worth Weat Territores
Yukon
Department of the Interior
Topograptical Survey
Royal Canadian Air Force
Department of National Defence
Fort Smith Nwt
Hudale National Park
Wainwight
Ladder Lake
Saskatchewan
Chipewyan
Lake Athabaska
Peace River
Great Slave Lake
Slave Lake
Cear
North West Territories
Alberta Wheat Crop Returns High Revenue in 1927
Estimates show Alberta wheat yield at 28.6 bushels per acre with $124 per bushel yielding about $36.75 per acre. Government valuations and farm outputs noted, with optimistic forecast for 1957 earnings, aided by strong prices for grain and livestock.
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Alberta
Ducwinian
Many Seek Land Along Bay Railway
Letters from across Canada arrive in Saskatoon asking for information on lands along the Bay Railway. One letter from six Abbott brothers seeks homesteads in the new territory others come from Sherbrooke Quebec. With the new line and the Hudson Bay Railway completion, homesteaders gain trade prospects and a ready market for meats and farm products.
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Canada
Saskatoon
Abberts
Sherbrook
Quebec
Fort Churchill
How To Gain Happiness From Focusing On Duty
The text argues happiness cannot be found by chasing it. It claims happiness evades those who pursue it, and instead comes when a person stops seeking it and concentrates on duty. By doing one’s present task faithfully, happiness enters the soul as a byproduct.
Alberta Becomes Corn Growing Country on Map
Prof McKee of Montana judges Calgary corn show under the Corn Growers Association. He views a display of 40,000 ears of Alberta corn and notes its kernel depth differs but food content matches the heartland standard.
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Alberta
McKee
Montana
Calgary
Corn Growers Association
Itealb
Corn Belt
Horse Is Arrested in Glasgow With Unusual Cargo
A horse in Glasgow was arrested after being found with five coats, three pairs of trousers, thousands of cigarette ends, many matches, keys, purses, pipes, rings, cheques, old papers, a War Saving Certificate, two buns, three rolls, four pounds of silver, and a deposit receipt. The coppers weighed 13145 pounds.
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Glasgow
Wood Buffalo Thrive in Wood Buffalo Park and Alberta Range
The wood buffalo in their natural habitat at Wood Buffalo Park near Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, thrive and multiply. In the southern Alberta range, they intermingle with plains buffalo since 1925, following shifts from Wainwright Park.
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Wood Buffalo Park
Fort Smith
N.W.T
Alberta
Plains
Wainwright Park
Quebec Editors Named Knights of the Legion of Honour
Herri Gagnon managing director of Le Soleil Quebec and P G Roy archivist of the province were named Knights of the Legion of Honour by the French Government in a ceremony honoring their contributions.
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Herri Gagnon
le Soleil
Quebec
P. G. Roy
Legion of Honor
Alberta Coal Production Poised for Record Year
Alberta coal output shows strong gains with ten months to October 21 totaling 5,231,921 tons, a 422,000 ton rise. If continued, year end could reach seven million tons, potentially surpassing the old high of 6,909,823 tons set in 1920. Last year’s seven weeks beyond October brought further gains.
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Alberta
Brownies
Fven
Enormous Grain Crop Reported to Soldiers Settlement Board
A Calgary report from the Soldiers' Settlement Board notes a remarkable grain harvest by farmer R. D B. Fraser of Munson. The season yielded 16 620 bushels from 223 acres of spring and winter wheat, averaging 56 14 bushels per acre.
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Calgary
Soldiers’ Settlement Board
R. D B. Fraser
Munson
Advertising in Newspapers Reaches Intelligent Readers
The text argues that page after page of paid advertisements in U S newspapers by magazines seeks more readers. It contends newspapers are the best medium to reach intelligent readers.
Calgary Flying Field to Expand Aviation Programme
Calgary will extend the aviation programme with a flying field increasing from 86 to 160 acres on the southeast corner. The plan anticipates four airplanes for the initial fleet and strong support from the local aviation league.
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Calgary
Canada
Aviation League
Sunflower silage as dependable crop in cool regions
The piece argues sunflowers are a satisfactory silage crop in areas with cool summers and frequent frosts, where corn yields suffer. Sunflowers resist drought better, have rising acreage in prairie provinces, and pilot studies at Kapuskasing show sunflower silage feeding beef cattle and lambs outperforming oats peas and vetch silage.
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Prairie Provinces
Dominion Experimental Farms
Department of Agriculture
Ottawa
Ontario
Kapuskasing
Remarkable Ages and Canadian Flour Output Highlight Colonial Era
Anusselman Methuselah, Hassins ton Ayeche, aged 126 in Tunis, has nearly fifty ascendants with two officers in a native French regiment. His oldest cow is 86 and thriving. Canada hosts 1,310 flour mills producing over 17.77 million barrels annually, exporting about 10 million barrels.
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Anusselman Methuselah
Hassins Ton Ayeche
Ale Din
Tunis
Canada
Heaviest Literary Effort Sells What He Has Written
An author’s major work is often driven by the need to market his writing. The drive to sell his manuscript underpins the production and push for publication.
England’s influence on American ideals praised in Chicago
The piece argues the United States owes its independence and much of its constitutional and cultural development to England. It cites Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and others as British lineage, notes Trinity Church and King's College in New York, and highlights England’s historical role in American education, religion, and national institutions.
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Mayor Thompson
Chicago
America
Connecticut
Commonwealth
Republic
Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Hamilton
Franklin
Marshall
Benjamin Thompson
Count Rumford
John Larvard
Charles William Eliot
New England
Atlantic Monthly
Webster's Dictionary
Francis Parkman
New York
John Wesley
John Punyan
Church of England
Corporation of
Trinity Church
Fers
Trinity
Smithsonian Lostivmuen
James Smithson
National Museum
Philadephia
Union
Thompson
England
United States
Buckskin Will Prompts Million Dollar Claim in Quebec
Mrs Jane Peever of Burnaby aged 87 seeks one third of a fortune nearly 200 million in chancery alleging that James Hudson who died intestate left a buckskin will to his family. The will written on a 24 inch buckskin strip is said to have been in possession at Fort Cowlounge Quebec about 40 years ago read by William Osborne Peever of Vancouver.
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Quebec
Jane Peever
Burnaby
James Hudson
Samuel Frost
Fort Cowlounge
Que
William Osborne Peever
Vancouver
Say It With Canadian Apples
A Canadian Pacific Express Company Christmas and New Year slogan promotes sending standard five pound boxes of MacIntosh apples overseas. Order from a grocer, specify destination in England Scotland Ireland France or elsewhere, and the company ships refrigerated by steamship with government guaranteed fruit. The cost to Great Britain is stated as cheaper than the apples themselves.
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Canadian Pacific Express Company
England
Scotland
France
Canadian Pacific Steamships
Great Britain
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Basor
WM. G. L. Strange
Chicago International
Bay Railway
Calgary Flying Field
Lambs
King's College
Columbia University
Columbia
Cof
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Taffioy
McDermott Ave
Winnipeg
Itern
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