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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1951
Page
2
The article notes a decline in immigration while highlighting its role in developing the country. It cites that between 1901 and 1911 nearly two million immigrants arrived in Western Canada, with a peak in 1913 when 400,870 newcomers settled there.
After the wars immigration to Canada fell from early 20th century peaks. By nine months to October 1950 UK arrivals dropped 46 percent and total foreign arrivals 28 percent. Officials eased restrictions, cut passage costs, and urged Canadian agents abroad to attract skilled workers and farm labor, hoping to lift future intake and meet labor needs.
A testimonial touts Dr D D Dennis' ly test relief with D D D Prescription for fast cooling relief from itching dermatitis rashes athlete’s foot and related conditions. Trial bottle offered at 35 cents with greaseless formula and immediate soothing effect.
The Manitoba Great Western racing circuit approved an 18 meet summer schedule opening May 24 at Wawanesa. Dates cover Holland Glenboro Pilot Mound Deloraine Melita Hamiota Virden Brandon Portage Carman Carberry Morden Yorkton Russell Dauphin Swan River McCreary with 15 of 20 towns present and notes dates for Pinnedosa and Emo, Ontario to be announced later.
An Englishman named William Huskis Son was the first person killed on a railroad, dying on the Liverpool and Manchester line in September 1830.
The Canadian farm price index remained at 239.8 in November, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. The month saw declines in grain livestock and potatoes, offset by gains in dairy, poultry and eggs, with province figures led by Ontario at 271.6 and Quebec at 266.0.
The American League reveals a 1951 schedule totaling 197 games per club and starts on April 16 with the pennant race under way. The season opener features New York versus Washington in the first Opening Night ceremony of the junior circuit, with President Truman tossing the ceremonial ball.
Alberta needs immigration as a solution to a looming labor shortage amid rapid industrial growth and rising power use. Deputy Minister J. E. Oberholtzer cites 1950 expansion as exciting, with power consumption up 10 percent from 1949 and 400 percent since 1939, plus high capital expansion and surging wholesale, construction, and vehicle sales. The province’s employed non farm workforce stands at 225,000, up from prewar levels.
A set of light vignettes and quips about family mornings contests boasting athletes meeting a challenger on a ladder, marriage insurance, film auditions, a game warden telephone encounter, and two elderly wrecks exchanging greetings.
Saskatchewan plans the 1951 highway program as the most extensive in its history. Highways Minister J. T. Douglas, also president of the Canadian Good Roads association, told Prairie Roadbuilders at their three day banquet in Edmonton that the coming season would feature vast road construction, continued aid to rural municipalities, and a rapid bridge-building drive.
Moose Jaw Saskatchewan report notes a privately owned grain elevator five miles from the railway near George Cooper’s farm in the Davey area. Built by his father I. W. Cooper who died in 1989, the 14 000 bushel structure saved hand shovel work and remains the best building on the property.
A single CPR box car No 256988 reappears at A E McKenzie Co Ltd in Brandon on the same date yearly. The odds of the same car, consignee, and product aligning are 1 in 16 500 000. The car is among CPRs fifty two thousand standard cars and three thousand foreign ones across 3050 stations on 300 working days.
In Saskatchewan residents from Swift Current Gull Lake and Shaunavon seek cheaper protein at Lac Pelletier with 22 anglers winter fishing reports. Perch bite briskly with typical seven inch fish and firm flesh while anglers note gas costs but lower meat prices offset travel.
Saskatoon. Hon. Hugues Lapointe, Veterans' Affairs Minister, announced that war veterans' allowances will likely be reviewed at the next Parliament session. He said the parliamentary Committee on Veterans' Affairs will be reformed and will doubtlessly examine the allowances and implement needed changes.
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