Progress in Canadian Scientific Research Growth and Projects
Canada has expanded research across industry agriculture and medicine. The National Research Council in Ottawa reports 2600 workers and projects from atomic energy to radar. Highlights include oil recovery from Athabaska tar sands and new equipment to detect radioactive materials.
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Canada
National Research Council
Ottawa
Dominion
Athabaska
Alberta
Atomic Energy Plant
Chalk River
Ontario
Prairie Regional Laboratory Progress Report
The article notes the Prairie Regional Laboratory in Saskatoon focusing on agriculture and prairie industries and announces a similar Maritime lab to follow. It highlights the National Research Council's work and Canada's growing emphasis on research to advance national development and keep pace with international progress.
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Prairie Regional Laboratory
Saskatoon
Prairie Provinces
Maritimes
National Research Council
Canada
Canada To Receive Top Coal Priority This Year
Cardiff reports Welsh coal exporters have Canada as top priority for anthracite shipments in 1949. Exports last year reached 160000 tons worth £600000, and the target for this year is 200000 tons aiming for nearly £1000000 in value.
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Canada
Cardiff
Wales
Immigrants Reach Canada 1948 Totals Given in Commons
Ottawa reports 125 414 immigrants reached Canada in 1948. The figure is almost double 1947 64 127. Of the 125 414 newcomers 46 057 came from the British Isles and 7 381 from the United States.
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Ottawa
MacKinnon
Commons
Canada
British Isles
United States
Comic anecdotes and jokes from a historical newspaper page
A collection of humorous vignettes featuring a soldier and a young woman on a river, a father restricting a marriage, a bride’s coy reply, a prison visit, a cub reporter, mutual friends avoiding dinner bills, dog racing deception, an oculist reading test, a noisy child at a door, and burglars reacting to clothing prices, with sharp, period humor.
Helicopter Mapping Trial Aims to Ease BC Mountain Surveys
A 1940s test in British Columbia used a helicopter to map mountains near Chilliwack with a nine member survey party. A. G. Slocomb of Victoria said the method eliminates arduous moves into position and allows photography during optimal daylight hours.
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Ottawa
British Columbia
Canadian Institute of Surveying
A. G. Slocomb
Victoria
B.C. Lands and Forests Department
Chilliwack
Pulp Plant Possibilities Raised for Prince Albert District
Abitibi Power and Paper engineers survey pulp and power resources in the Prince Albert area. W. D. Sandborn and J. G. Mathews expressed favorable impressions, with decisions depending on reports to company president Douglas Ambridge in Toronto.
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Prince Albery
Prince Albert
Abitibi Power and Paper Company
W. D. Sandborn
Abitibi
J. G. Mathews
Mathews
Sandborn
Douglas Ambridge
Toronto
Western Canada Braces for Worst Grasshopper Invasion
Prairie farmers and government entomologists mobilize to fight a projected grasshopper invasion across Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. Major pesticides include sodium arsenite and new chemicals chlordane and chlorinated camphene, with aerial spraying and poison-bait methods under consideration.
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Western
Canada
Central Press
Saskatoon
Sask
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manitoba
Macklin
North Battleford
Prince Albert
Rosthern
Wynyard
Lemans
Indian Head
Midale
Estevan
Prairie
Canada Birth Rate Declines in First Half 1948
Ottawa reports Canada's birth rate dropped to 26.4 per 1 000 from 29.8 in mid 1947. Mortality eased to 9.6 while natural increase fell from 20 to 16.8 as statistics bureau releases figures.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Printing Equipment For Sale In Regina
Proof Press bed size 14 by 35 with cabinet and ink plate heavy roller type price 50 dollars fo b Regina Heavy Duty Punch six heads various round holes slotted and diamond punch 67 dollars fo b Regina Required space for new equipment Peeriess Printers 1810 Smith St Regina
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Regina
Peeriess Printers
Smith St
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