Northwest Agricultural Land Yet Unexplored for Settlement
Dr. E. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farms Service cautions that vast Northwest Canada lands in the Mackenzie Basin Liard Neilson area and Yukon require thorough soil surveys and climatic records before any settlement. He notes limited viable farming regions and stresses cooperative experiments, with notable suitability only near the Upper Peace and Fort Nelson areas to avoid prohibitive transport costs.
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Canadian Northwest
Mackenzie Basin
Liard- Neilson
British Columbia
Parsnip
Findlay
Yukon
Edmonton
Upper Peace
Fort Nelson
Pacific Coast
E. &S. Archibald
Dominion Experimental Farms Service
C.S.T.A
Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists
Formidable Lost Iron Fleet Highlighted by Admiralty
The Admiralty list shows wartime losses totaling three battleships, two battle cruisers, five carriers, fourteen armed merchant cruisers, sixty submarines, twenty two corvettes and more, plus 109 destroyers and other craft. It notes enemy U boats and planes caused heavy losses and that recovery and Allied supremacy remain probable with broad coalition strength.
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Admiralty
A. V. Alexander
Royal Navy
Germany
United States
United Nations
More eggs for Britain boosts export to wartime Britain
The special products board reports it has secured 284 carloads of eggs for export to Britain this season, more than twice last year’s 129 carloads by January. The gain mainly comes from the western region, which previously lagged behind Eastern Canada in surplus egg production.
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The
Special Products Board
Britain
West
Canada
Defence allows claims for service ribbons before medals
Defence headquarters announced that officers and other ranks discharged from the Army or Air Force before the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal ribbon and silver clasp were authorized may claim them on written application to the records offices of the two services in Ottawa.
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Defence Headquarters
Air Force
Ottawa
German Atrocities Reported From Russia Harrowing Claims
BM Downs, a CBS correspondent back from a year in Russia, described Nazi crimes in the USSR. He recounted mass graves near Kiev, brutal executions by the Gestapo, and a two story high funeral pyre. He cited Red Army burial sites at Orel and a future “black book” dossier for postwar retribution.
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BM Downs
CBS
Russia
U.S.R
New York
Mags
Kiev
Downs
War workers in Australia gain with Canadian clock shipments
Melbourne radio quoted a broadcast noting alarm clocks from Canada helped ease Australia’s acute clock shortage and that clocks are sold only to war workers. The report also warned watches remain scarce and repairs for clocks and watches can take months.
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Melbourne Radio
Canada
Australia
U.S
Morning Height Theory and Month End Shortening Noted
A medical journal notes that man is slightly taller in the morning than in the evening. The Dunnville Chronicle remarks on a tendency to become shorter toward the end of the month, without formal testing.
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Dunnville Chronicle
Stratford Beacon-Her
Poor housing conditions grip Canada urban families
Fifty per cent of urban families in Canada cannot afford housing up to the standard of decent Canadian living says Professor An. The note underscores widespread housing hardship in cities and the need for policy action.
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Canada
Shrimp Color Confusion Highlights Varieties in Market
A reader notes that boiled shrimp turn brown while the familiar pink shrimp represent a different variety, suggesting a distinction between common and specialty seafood colors in markets.
Beloved Canadian Padre Canon Scott Archdeacon Frederick George Scott dies at 82
The late canon, famed for devotion and valor, served Canadians in the last war. Wounded near the Canal du Nord six weeks before armistice, he preached patience and resignation with his crucifix in hand. A shrapnel fragment near his eye remained, proudly kept to show he faced the foe. Britain’s 1940 Battle of Britain is cited as pivotal in saving the world.
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Canon Scott
Frederick George Scott
Canal du Nord
Attlee Supports Coalition Unity in Britain War Effort
Labour leader Clement Attlee urged continued national unity within Churchill’s coalition saying there can be no relaxation of the war effort. He acknowledged party pressure yet insisted on preserving democracy and future political life during difficult times.
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Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Churchill
Canadians Win Hearts of British Children Through Kindness
A London Times letter from photographer Charles Law praises Canadian troops for their kindness to local children near their camps in Britain. He notes Christmas parties ranging from 50 to 800 guests, with sacrifices to ensure joy, and says the troops foster goodwill between Britain and Canada, promising lasting friendship. The article reflects Toronto Globe and Mail sentiment on military outreach beyond battle aims.
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Canada
Britain
London Times
Charles Law
Law
Enemies of Freedom
Toronto Globe and Mail
Tables Were Turned as German Siege Guns Backfire
The Germans fled Leningrad as their own 16 inch siege rifles named after Thor shelled them. Soviet forces overran and captured 85 of these giant field-pieces, then used them against the retreating invaders, according to the Montreal Gazette.
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Leningrad
Thor
Montreal Gazette
Malaria Drug Aids Canadian Troops in North Africa and Italy
The article notes over 2.9 million Mepacrine tablets given to Canadian soldiers in the Mediterranean theater during the malaria season. It credits reduced malaria deaths to the drug with a rate under 0.25 per 1,000 and reports malaria incidence among Canadians under 10 percent despite exposure in hyperendemic zones.
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Canadian Army
Ainst
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Mediterranean
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
North
Africa
Fisenhower
Montgomery
New Fire Grate Promises From British Invention
Sir Evan Williams of the British Coal Utilization Research Association described a grate that would burn continuously day and night with weekly cleaning. It would heat upstairs as well as downstairs and a £150,000 grant was set for hydro carbon research. The project may cost £500,000 in two to three years and up to £2,000,000 in five years. Dr A Parker of DRIR noted Britain lags in research but cited a smoke reducing grate and boiler fitments for efficiency.
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Downs
Orel
Gestapo
Red Army
Evan Williams
British Coal Utilization Research Association
London
Newcastle Institute of Fuel
A. Parker
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Parker
Christian Science Monitor
Italy reconstruction will take UN longer, says MP Chambers
Capt Alan Chambers Liberal MP for Nanaimo returned from the Mediterranean front where he served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Army. He warned that reconstructing Italy will demand more time and effort from the United Nations.
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Italy
United Nations
Alan Chambers
Nanaimo
Mediteranean Front
Hitler's Navy Shrinks to Pocket Battleships and Cruisers
The Scharnhorst represents Hitler's naval power as only two pocket battleships remain alongside about six cruisers and around twenty destroyers after heavy losses.
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Tne Scharnhorst
Hitler
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