A Little Business Brings Frontier Plans to Light
Uncle Joe and Sandy Smith pool a thousand dollars to buy land by a swamp edge with an old fort site. They plot museums and a gas station while a mine detector hunt for a cannon unfolds. Aunt Martha fears folly but ministers and maps push the venture forward as they stake out pine timber value.
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Joe
Martha
Joe Quinn
Sandy Smith
Sandy
Mr. Morrison
Uncle oJe
Morrison
Uncle Joe
Wartime names honor fallen airman and Grenfell pioneers
Saskatchewan officials assign two topographic features in memory of World War II service member Fit.-Sgt. George Ronald Millar and longtime Grenfell district settlers Albert John Loveridge and his wife. Millar Lake lies nine miles north of Pelican Narrows, about 150 miles northeast of Prince Albert, while Loveridge Island sits in the Nistowiak Lake area, 40 miles northeast of Lac la Ronge.
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Saskatchewan
Canada
Grenfell District
J. H. Brockelbank
Millar Lake
Pelican Lake
George Ronald Millar
RCAF
Thomas G. Millar
Bethune, Sask
Millar
St. Nazaire
England
Pelican Narrows
Prince Albert
Loveridge
Grenfell
Mr. Loveridge
Nistowiak Lake
Lac la Ronge
Young plow champ crowned in Manitoba contest
Gerald Lyttle, 14, of High Bluff, won Manitoba and Western Canada plowing championships after a two hour judges’ discussion among 46 entrants. The modest schoolboy beat 45 rivals to claim the title in Portage la Prairie.
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Portage LA Prairie
Man
Gerald Lyttle
High Bluff
Manitoba
Western Canada
Pioneer Watty Forsyth Heads 1600 Mile Calgary Tractor Trip
At 86 Walter Forsyth known as Watty from Rapid City leaves by his 1946 Massey Harris tractor to attend the 1954 Calgary exhibition and stampede July 5 to 10. He plans a steady pace to Calgary around July 3 and back possibly via the States, mailing daily progress cards from a custom two wheel trailer bedroom. Forsyth, a long time pioneer since 1884 and one leg, seeks support and notes tractor license 17-497.
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Rapid City
Walter Forsyth
Little Saskatchewan Valley
Forsyth
Manitoba
Calgary
H. G. Westwood
Birkinshaws
Massey-Harris Company
Bert Gray
Harold Westwood
Watty Forsyth
Year round fishing legalized in British Columbia
British Columbia loosens rules to permit year round fishing on mainland lakes provided the lake is not iced. Mainland streams and Vancouver Island waters remain restricted. The size limit for trout drops from eight to six inches across about 50 waters, aiming to boost angler activity among roughly 100000 fishers, including many non residents.
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British Columbia
Vancouver Island
Manitoba Claimed for Britain in 1612
A historical note states Manitoba was first claimed for Britain in 1612, about the size of France, marking early colonial assertions and exploration in North America.
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Britain
France
Manitoba
Vancouver actress Barbara Kelly shines on stage and TV in Britain
Barbara Kelly of Vancouver is a vivacious actress and mother of three who has become a London TV favorite on What's My Line and a leading stage presence. Her charm and fashion, including borrowed jewelry, gain daily newspaper front pages as she debuts a planned TV comedy of her own.
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London
Barbara Kelly
Vancouver
Miss Kelly
Gilbert Harding
Mary Bullough
Mrs Bullough
Bernard Braden
Savoy Theatre
Bradens
Britain
the Bradens
Saskatchewan divides province into 49 wildlife zones
Saskatchewan's biological division announces 49 management zones to aid hunters and game officials. Zones use highways and railways as markers to relate hunting pressure, habitat work, and population data, with maps available at no cost from vendors, RCMP, officers, and offices.
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Sask
Regina
Saskatchewan
Department of Natural Resources
E. L. Paynter
Game Branch
RCMP
Desert Dwellers Survive Without Drinking Water
Two American scientists at the Royal Institution describe desert animals like the kangaroo rat and pocket mouse that oxidize seeds for water, staying underground by day and active at night. They contrast human desert life noting Sahara heat, manual labor gaps, and how skin color may protect against UV exposure.
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Royal Institution
London
Arizona Desert
Desert
Edmond Sergent
Algiers
Sahara
J. S. Weiner
Oxford
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M. J. Collins
NCLE
Jfashions
P.P.L
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Front Street W
Toronto
Calgary Trail
B.C
David Kent
Denver
Colo
Donald Mitchell
Lewes
Dela
New York
U.S. Coast Guard
Keé
Into
Canadian Northland
Fort Prince of Wales
Hudson's Bay
Churchill
Saskatoon
C.N.R
W. J. Hansen
Legislative Buildings
Hudson Bay Route Association
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NLAW
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