Optimism Grows in Western Northland Canada Amid Northern Resource Boom
The article details rising optimism in Canada’s western northland with new radium and silver deposits at Great Bear Lake, Sabine Point and Echo Bay. It notes aerial transport expansion, a Junkers aircraft for north freight, a McMurray base, and weekly mail to Aklavik, while forecasting strong fur crops, self sustentation, and influx of prospectors for 1932.
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Great Bear Lake
Extmonton
Alberta
Sabine Point
Echo Bay
Hughs. Spence
Federal Department of Mines
Great Bear Lake District
Alta
Edmonton
Canada
Junkers
Canadian Airways, Limited
McMurray
Aklavik
Northwest Territories
Mackenzie Delta
Mackenzie River
Smith Portage
Fort Smith
Fashionable Tweed Pattern for Girls 624 Arrives in Mint Shade
The piece describes a stylish light weight tweed like wool pattern for girls with a front wrap, Spanish tile shade, bone buttons, rolled collar and belt. Size 8 to 14 years, requires yardage for 39 and 35 inch fabrics, includes a three piece circular skirt attached to the bodice. Other fabrics suggested include wool jersey crepe challis and tweed like cottons. Pattern priced 25 cents in stamps or coin.
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
The text outlines an address in Winnipeg and describes several industrious items. It mentions Tyrian purple dye from Mediterranean sea snails, fibrous sugar cane waste turned into insulating lumber, and an electrically driven hay chopping and moisture removing machine that blows hay into mows.
Canada Producers Bending Energies Forwards
Dr. J. H. Grisdale, Federal Deputy Minister of Agriculture, says Canada’s agricultural markets depend on quality as well as quantity. He notes producers are focusing on product quality to command premiums abroad, with prices on an export basis and farming expanding, while Canadian prices track world prices.
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Canada
J. H. Grisdale
Prepare Year Ahead For Dry Land Garden
Experimental work at Lethbridge Alberta shows success in dry land kitchen gardens when prepared a year ahead. Superintendent W H Fairfield in his annual report urges doubling the area, applying well rotted manure, summer fallow before ploughing, minimal cultivation to curb weeds, eight inch deep ploughing, wide rows for hand cultivator use, and a windbreak on the windward side of the garden site. Vegetables in a dry land garden mature earlier than irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Alberta
W. H. Fairfield
Cost Of Producing Hay At Ottawa Central Experimental Farm
The 1930 Dominion Field Husbandman report by E S Hopkins notes hay yield of 4.14 per acre at Ottawa Central Experimental Farm with $26.88 spent per acre and $42.43 crop value. Profit per acre is $15.55, rate of return on manual labor is 72 cents per acre, and additional labor cost of $2.96 per ton would apply if marketed.
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Central Experimental Farm
Ottawa
Dominion Field Husbandman
E. S. Hopkins
M.S
Canada Weathering Difficulty in Favorable Manner Says Economist
Donald M. Marvin notes Canada’s end of 1931 shows agriculture hit hard by drought and low prices, yet industry and mining stay steady. Wheat, butter, and cattle exports rise modestly, gold output soars, and overall savings and manufacturing remain strong despite foreign demand weakness and exchange shifts.
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Canada
Economist
Donald M. Marvin
Royal Bank of Canada Monthly
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Dominions
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Arctic Circle
Hudson's Bay Company
Gutierrez
Bow
Peter Bond
Lake Athabasca
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Joly
By Annette
MecDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Fetter NG
Ostacese Srs Vescece
Great Britain
England
France
Belgium
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Prairie
Manitoba
Quebec
Madrid
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Bombay
India
Poona
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