Pioneer Francois Adam Shaped Camrose in Alberta
Francois Adam, born in Louvain Belgium, arrived in Canada in 1853 and worked for the CPR as a civil engineer. He helped found Camrose’s wide Main Street, served as first Justice of the Peace and first Board of Trade president, built homes and stores, ran fur posts north of the Peace River, and later ranching in Duhamel. He lived seventy-one years in Canada with sixty in Camrose, contributing to townsites, real estate, and local history.
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Cvrning
Francois Adam
Louvain
Belgium
CPR
Winnipeg
Medicine Hat
C.P.R
Transcontinental Railway Company
Duhamel
Bellevaire
Stony Creek
Adam
Crooker Lake
Gwynne
Battle River
Peace River
Carcajou
London
Canada
Yvan
Camrose
Sparling
Merchants Bank
Francois
Louis Riel
Hudson's Bay Company
Scotland
Canadaan Mortgage Company
Colonial Investment and Loan Company
Canadian
New Norway
Tofield
Calgary
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company
Alberta
District
Jean Baptiste Laboucaine
Wetaskiwin
Dinant
Stony Creek Lumber Company
Masonic Temple
York
Quick Canadia Quiz and World War II Wage Trends
A trivia feature asks which domestic animal is native to North America and poses questions on Ottawa duties, population growth from natural increase and immigration, and postwar wage growth in manufacturing. It notes an unoccupied 30 million acre agricultural land area and points to Answers in Another Column.
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Ottawa
Canada
Tuna Mornay Toast Delights
A 7 ounce can tuna is folded into a creamy sauce made from flour butter evaporated milk and water with Canadian cheddar and seasonings. Serve hot on toast topped with a broiled mushroom and optional tomato or paprika for six servings.
Informal Garden Design Works For Flowers But Not Vegetables
Garden notes explain seed catalog guidance for flowers and vegetables. It highlights the value of detailed plant data, formal versus informal layouts for flowers, and insistence on straight rows and defined spacing for vegetables to maximize yield and ease cultivation.
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Gardner
Canada
Butchart
British Columbia
Niagara Falls
Ottawa
Canadian notes mix humor and tragedy across towns
A collection of tiny items from Nova Scotia to British Columbia covers postal rate chatter with a whimsical stamp flavor idea, wildlife feeding efforts in Alberta, a high River double death, a driving fine in Saskatchewan, geese and Bible prizes in Alberta, curling wins in Saskatchewan, a rose shaped egg in Nova Scotia, and editorials urging accountable government and fair work compensation.
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Liverpool
Battle River
Alta
Camrose Fish & Game League
Bowthorpe
Newston Donavan
Innisfail
High River
R. J. Smith
Lunenburg
Arnold Marks
Leduc Seventh Day Adventists
Weyburn Review
John McLeod
Evelyn Melanson
Plympton
Camrose
Creston
Canada
Kamloops
Dauphin Pioneer Celebrates 95th Birthday
Joseph Mansfield, Dauphin's long time bachelor fraternity dean, marked his 95th birthday at Dauphin General Hospital on Sunday January 31. Born in 1859 in London Ontario, he homesteaded in 1875 and spent years moving between Manitoba and British Columbia. He later hauled gravel for the rural municipality of Dauphin from 1924 with mule teams, and spent his final years with his niece Mrs. Peter Thiesen before his hospital stay.
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Dauphin
Man
Joseph Mansfield
Dauphin General Hospital
Mansfield
Dauphin District
London
Ont
Ripon
Walter
Phillip
Mr. Mansfield
Manitoba
British Columbia
Peter Thiesen
Answers to Quick Quiz from Alberta and beyond
The fragment lists quiz answers including Alberta, natural increase 275 575, international migration 164 498 for 1952, a riddle about a dog, wage data rising from 67 cents to 137 dollars, and tax figures 395 million in customs duties and 865 million in sales and excise taxes. It also notes a claim about hearing in insects and files.
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Alberta
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Fraser Valley
Mission
B.C
South Amherst
Ohio
Les Carroll
Kei Ai
Beilo
Jhunk
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