Morning Awakening Amid Nature’s Quiet Pleasures
A reflective passage describes awakening before dawn to birdsong and the beauty of green grass, leaves, and sunlit lake. The speaker contrasts discomfort of winter clothing with the solace found in nature’s simple scenes.
Frigid Winter Recalled in a Reflective Journal Entry
The Journal from Rock Island Quebec laments a harsh two month winter. The writer longs for warm weather and longed to fish as robins hop on green grass. He contrasts modern heat and humidity with nostalgic Canadian winters and imagines spring still three months away.
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Rock Island
Stanstead
Canada Exports Over 12 Million Christmas Trees
Canada ships more than 12 million Christmas trees with about 99 percent sold to the United States. Additional markets include Mexico Venezuela Panama Puerto Rico Jamaica and Cuba. A person uses about 44 muscles when speaking.
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Canada
U.S
Mexico
Venezuela
Panama
Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Cuba
Quick Canadian Quiz on Time Zones and History
The quiz asks about shinplaster a 25 cent paper note once issued in Canada. It notes seven Standard Time Zones cross Canadian territory and covers 1957 58 revenue shares by category farming retailing manufacturing and total Ottawa revenue. The Peace River name derives from a Cree Beaver treaty land point.
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Canada
Peace River
Canadian Territory
New Bridge Joins Halifax to Dartmouth Across Harbour
The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge connects Halifax and Dartmouth as the harbour's third crossing. An old Micmac legend says three bridges would be built and all would fall.
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Angus L. Macdonald
Halifax
Dartmouth
Weapons From the Storied Past in Riverhurst Museum
Riverhurst Sask has a small museum in the Cour ier office housing a large firearms collection chiefly old blunderbusses flintlock pistols and rifles plus Indian relics rocks fossils and swords. Curator F T Hill explains how a newsroom hoard grew into a continent attracting exhibit, with ongoing additions and a plan for village ownership after his tenure.
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Prairies
Courier
F. T. Hill
Hill
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Geology
Western
Department of Mines
Ottawa
Courier Office
T. M. Morgan
Kingsville
Ont
Braided Rug Pattern Offers Family Craft Project
Pattern 334 explains how to make an unusual braided rug as well as other braided types for hooked rugs. The home workshop pamphlet lists details and sells for $1 70 with 10 cents service charge on orders under $1. Vancouver BC.
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Patierns
Department P.P.I
West 3Th Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Inflation Erodes Canadian Dollar Over Ten Years
Over the past decade inflation shrank the purchasing power of the Canadian dollar by 22 percent. The piece urges support for rehabilitation centers through donations to the Canadian Mental Health Association.
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Canadian Mental Health Association
Plan for Manitoba high school reform urged
The education minister Hon Stewart McLean argues the new high school division proposal will equalize costs and guarantee every Manitoba child a high school education. He urges voters to study the plan and vote on February 27, emphasizing the policy as vital for the province’s youth.
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Stewart McLean
Province of
Manitoba
McLean
Wall of the Courier Office Displays Historic Firearms
The image depicts a wall in the Courier Office featuring long guns. A Springfield muskets of 1827 era sits among others and a Tower of London piece is the third gun from the top on the right.
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Tower of London
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