Medals Awarded Across Canada for Heroic Rescues
Bronze medals were awarded to Anthony Land for rescuing Mrs. James D. Campbell from a burning Charlottetown home on March 1 1962. Nathaniel Osmond earned bronze for saving Albert Slade from Exploits Dam near Millertown Oct 21 1953. Donald Martin received bronze for saving Stanley Baker in the Nith river at Canning Ontario June 10 1953. Marcel Dupas won bronze for rescuing Diane Pearl Hunt and Barbara Fearing at Okanagan Lake in 1951. Certificates were issued across provinces to dozens of rescuers for various incidents from 1951 to 1954 including Burns, drownings, and near-fatal falls.
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Anthony Land
James D. Campbell
Charlottetown
Land
Nathaniel Osmond
Albert Slade
Exploits Dam
Millertown
Mid
Osmond
Slade
Donald Martin
Stanley Baker
Canning
Ont
Baker Boy
Martin
Baker
Marcel Dupas
Diane Pearl Hunt
Okanagan Lake
Barbara Fearing
Okanagan Landing
Fraser River
Steveston
Alan R. Foster
Surrey
B.C
Sherman Murphy
Edward Luke
Crescent Beach
Lawrence Hillier Lansdowne
Albert Bay
Peter Coon
Englewood
Kenith Blackwell
Randolf Lindbloom
Souris River
Edward McMurray
Kirkland Lake
Jack MacKinnon
Municipal Pump House
William Cook
Prescott
Quick Canadian Facts snapshot from the pocket annual
Facts from Quick Canadian Facts include 1953 spending about twice combined provincial and municipal outlays, weekly supplementary labour income at 76 million dollars, the Kettle Valley line known as the railway on stilts, a 1857 reference, and a 1951 census showing an average family size of 3.7 persons.
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Kettle Valley
C.P.R
B.C
Quick Canadian Facts
Pocket Annual
Canada
Home Maintenance And Hair Care Tips From A Past Edition
Practical household hints describe clearing clogged pipes with hot water and lye like mixtures and using soda vinegar to dissolve grease. A dry shampoo is made from ground cornmeal and an infusion of orrs root for scalp freshness. A stiff starch is prepared by dissolving gum arabic and baking soda in water then adding to starch.
Farmer Parr grows only winter grains on Vancouver Island
Well ahead of typical spring sowing farmer Paul Parr on Vancouver Island reverses crop strategy planting only winter grains. His crops mature about one month to six weeks earlier than spring sown cereals, allowing earlier harvest and reduced spring timing pressures.
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Duncan, B.C
Paul Parr
Vancouver Island
Edmonton issued record 1000 building permits in June
Edmonton city hall officials reported the building department issued more than 1,000 permits in a single month for the first time, plus $305,000 in permits in one day. Year to date total permits exceeded the 1953 level by about $4.5 million.
Young Manitoban Girl Earns Life Saving Diploma
Elizabeth Burdeny of Welland Court Winnipeg trains with HMCS Chippawa and becomes the youngest Manitoban to receive the Royal Life Saving Society diploma. At 23 she also holds the province’s Distinction award, crediting the Red Cross for her swimming start and teaching others at Sherbrook pool YMHA Winnipeg Winter Club and Chippawa.
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Ethelbert
Royal Life Saving Society
Elizabeth Burdeny
Welland Court
Winnipeg
Rockwood School
Elizabeth
Michael P. Burdeny
Society
Hmcs Chippawa
Naval Reserve
Burdney
The
Red Cross
Sherbrook Pool
YMHA
Chippawa
William LeBlanc
Sask. Education Dept Awards 50 Scholarships in Three Fields
Reg ina announces 50 scholarships awarded by the Saskatoon education department for summer courses in physical education drama and school music methods. Winners include Dorothy Smith Regina Thora Bertelsen Lloydminster Richard Kroczynski Saskatoon and others across Weyburn Arcola Meadow Lake Yorkton Alameda Belbutte and Dunblane.
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Regina
W.S. Lloyd
Department of Education
Strathcona Trust Fund
Teachers College
Saskatoon
University of Saskatchewan
Gordon H. Liddie
Weyburn
John Charles Armitage
Arcola
Charles Ivan Booker
Meadow Lake
Rodney Earl Sommerfeld
Wymark
Herman Edwin Berg
Waldheim
Peter R. Kacey
Eyebrow
Marcella Bauer
Cudworth
J. D. Welykholowa
Kamsack
W. W. Haacke
Yorkton
Appetizing Recipes Jumbo Sandwiches
A simple outdoor sandwich idea uses one loaf of French bread 1 cup peanut butter 8 slices cold meat and 10 dill pickle spears. Spread peanut butter on bread halves layer meat and pickles then seal wrap and heat over a fire. Slice into six portions.
Egg and Bacon Filling for Sandwiches
Mix mayonnaise French dressing olive juice and horseradish with salt. Fold in chopped hard cooked eggs bacon and olives for a savory filling.
Youngest girl radio amateur in Canada earns licence
Nine year-old Judy Kannegiesser of North Bay Ontario becomes believed to be the country’s youngest licensed amateur radio operator. She earned the government licence after three months of study mastering radio theory code and circuit design. Judy’s call sign is VE SERJ. Her mother also received a licence the same day. Judy is the daughter of Gordon Kannegiesser a railway conductor with past RCAF wireless service.
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Judy Kannegiesser
North Bay
Ont
Veserj
Judy
Gordon Kannegiesser
Kannegiesser
RCAF
Smile of the Week Love Triangle in Nursing Home
A young man in a nursing home falls for a nurse. He declares he does not want to get well. The nurse reveals the doctor is in love with her as well and saw the man kissing her that morning.
Windy Thrives Vancouver Burglars Hit Music Store
Burglars believed to be musically inclined broke into a Vancouver music store and escaped with six trumpets two clarinets and two cornets enough to stock a band.
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Vancouver
Ten Polio Precautions From Health Expert Dr Nelles Silverthorne
Dr Nelles Silverthorne outlines ten parental rules to curb poliomyelitis as polio season nears. He emphasizes sewage control, banning swimming in outbreaks, fly exclusion from food areas, strict food hygiene, cooking and boiling to destroy the virus, avoiding fly ridden spots, hand washing, washing and peeling produce, promptly isolating ill children, and avoiding doubtful cases. He notes many mild polio cases go undiagnosed and stresses vaccine efficacy as the ultimate solution while mentioning gamma globulin as a temporary measure in severe epidemics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelles Silverthorne
Health Magazine
Silverthorne
Health League of Canada
Edmonton girl signs film contract for The Gabriel Horn
Dianne Foster of Edmonton has been signed by Hecht-Lancaster for a role in Burt Lancaster's The Gabriel Horn. The chestnut haired, brown eyed actress will play an indentured servant freed by Lancaster. Foster began acting at 13 on radio in Edmonton and has appeared in English films and London theatre.
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New York
Dianne Foster
Edmonton
Hecht-Lancaster Organization
Burt Lancaster
Gabriel Horn
Miss Foster
Lancaster
Dianne
London
St. James Theatre
Bianca
Barbara Stanwyck
Glenn Ford
Mickey Rooney
Ford
Canada
Quebec City
Common Cold and Flu Drove Half Canada Sickness
In an address to the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. G D W Cameron reported a 1930-51 health survey finding the common cold and influenza accounting about 45 percent of illnesses. About 425000 Canadians suffer chronic disabilities and 100000 are totally disabled.
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Vancouver
Canada
G. D. W. Cameron
National Heart
Canadian Medical Association
Cameron
British Columbia
Quebec
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
Maritimes
Scarce Draught Horses Hit Alberta Market
In Alberta the search for young draught horses grows difficult as Hardy E. Slater of Calgary travels 2700 miles over a week to assemble nine top four-year old Percherons for the Capital City Tally Ho Co of Victoria. Salter, secretary of the Canadian Percheron Association, bought horses from five ranches but rarely found more than two at any one place. The horses will pull sight seeing wagons through Victoria, traveling about 30 miles daily.
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Calgary
Alberta
Hardy E. Slater
Tally-Ho Co
Victoria
B.C
Quick Canadia Quiz
A newspaper quiz item asks about Canada’s Railway on Stilts and the average family size, with a multiple choice on supplementary labour income figures of $500,000 a week $2.7 million a week or $7.6 million a week It queries Ottawa’s year as capital and compares annual tax spending by provincial municipal governments versus federal government Answers are noted to appear in another column.
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Canada
Ottawa
Gems of Thought Quotes on Laughter and Joy
A collection of aphorisms reflecting how laughter and happiness arise from kindness and joy. Notable lines include Lamb on a laugh worth groans, Carlyle on joyous humor, Lavater on child laughter, and Goethe on character in what is deemed funny. The set ties sorrow to forthcoming joy and notes laughter as household sunshine.
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Charles Lamb
Carlyle
John Caspar Lavater
Mary Baker Eddy
Goethe
Thackeray
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Yvonne Croteau
St. Lawrence
Marilyn Stafford
Port Burwell
Lauretta Vaughan
Otter Creek
William Hatch
Whitby
Keith Surridge
George Thomas
Whitby Harbor
George Toulouse
Wallaceburg
Jim Shaw
Sydenham River
Earl Tryburn
Port Arthur
Gaye
Deborah Clark
McVicars Creek
Marcel Cote
Father Point Rimouski
Que
Ernest Gourdeau
Eric Keiller
Dorvay
Sandra Downey
Lake St. Louis
William Marsh
Chatham
N.B
Rodney Wyld
Miramic
Beatrice Pines
Manitoba
the Dauphin
Sask
Edmonton Girl
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