Caribou Count Signals 30000 Wintering in Saskatchewan
Canadian Wildlife Service and Saskatchewan Manitoba game offices report an airborne survey estimating about 30,000 dun colored caribou wintered in northern Saskatchewan. Biologists Harper and Ruttan counted roughly 4,000 in the Wollaston Reindeer lakes area, noting migration patterns and weather effects on herd movement.
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Canada
Canadian Wildlife Service
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Harper and
Ruttan
Wollaston-Reindeer Lakes
Rome
North West Territories
Mr. Harper
Mr. Ruttan
Reindeer Lake
Alberta forests plea urges fire safe use of woods
The Canadian Forestry Association Alberta Branch warns that while thousands of trees will be planted for shelterbelts on prairie farms, many timber-zone trees could vanish in fires. It calls every Alberta citizen a voluntary fire ranger when in forested areas to prevent waste and protect river-basin fertility.
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Canadian Forestry Association
Alberta
Scotland
Rockies
North America
Smile Of The Week At Rifle Range Training
The sergeant lectures recruits on the rifle range stressing bullet impact through wood. He warns soldiers to keep their heads down while demonstrating a piercing round and practical safety points.
Alberta holds line against westward rat advance
Alberta rat control officials report the front line stationary with some areas pushed back toward Saskatchewan. Meetings at Wainwright and Oyen say the control program since 1951 works, while eastern Alberta residents grow more rat conscious and cooperate. Eight full time officers operate from the North Saskatchewan river to the Cypress hills supplying poisons and demonstrations. There is evidence of bubonic plague among rodents from Oyen to Hanna, but transmission risk to humans remains remote.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Wainwright
Oyen
Alberta Field Corps Branch
Municipal and Agricultural Service Board
Department of Health
Hanna
Man
North Saskatchewan River
Cypress Hills
Helpful sewing tips for hems and tool care
Practical advice on hemming flared skirts with vertical pinning and steam pressing to reduce bulk. Cauliflower soaking tip yields snowy white results after cooking. Corks stored in a sewing kit protect scissors and pins from hand cuts.
Answers to Quick Quiz 5 and facts about Canadian pensions
Protective tariffs. Last year family allowance payments cost 366.5 million and universal old age pensions 353 million. In World War I Sir Robert Borden and in World War II W L Mackenzie King. 427 percent. There are 950000 horses on farms today. Material prepared by Quick Canadian Facts editors.
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Sir Robert Borden
W. L Mackenzie King
Canada
Something good about you
Poem by William Barnes Lowet praising the comfort given to others and the value of hearing kind words in hard times. It notes how a friend’s praise can lift weariness and mentions a final hopeful greeting from a kindly heart.
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William Barnes Lowet
Slow snail holds world’s slowest speed record
The ordinary snail moves at a glacial pace, covering about a mile in three weeks, illustrating the extreme slowness of this creature.
Quick Canadian Quiz prompts on prime ministers and demographics
A quiz item lists questions about Canada's WWI and WWII prime ministers, current farm horse counts, comparative costs of family allowances versus old age pensions, population growth in 1954, and the 18797 National Policy. Answers are promised in another column.
Fish silage used as sole protein for range chickens
At Nappan Experimental Farm in Nova Scotia, fish silage served as the only protein source for feeding 50 range chickens. Fed with whole grain and silage in free-choice hoppers, the birds consumed enough silage to account for 15.5 percent of their total diet. They grew normally with no mortality.
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Nappan Experimental Farm
N.S
World's Most Expensive Piano From 1910 Hits Market
A piano delivered in 1910 to Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney of New York society circles could fetch $100,000. Its rosewood case features rare woods, mother-of-pearl, and tortoise shell with gold-plated hinges and petals. The instrument required 15 years to complete.
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Henry Payne Whitney
New York Society
Canada forest industries largest employer nationwide
From coast to coast, the forest industries of Canada are the country’s biggest employer and hold the largest capital investment. Their sales to the United States help drive the high level of the Canadian dollar in Canada U.S. exchange.
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Canada
United States
U.S
Week in Britain highlights in 1955
The report covers British to Canadian footwear exports rising above 368 thousand pairs in the first quarter of 1955 and value gains. It notes a replica of a wooden wartime horse to the Imperial War Museum, Canadian artists exhibiting at the Imperial Institute, an Oscar for Thursday's Children, a Commonwealth essay winner Patricia Roy, and ongoing Commonwealth meteorology and cotton board design events in London and Manchester.
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U.K
Canada
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth
International Red Cross
Imperial Institute
London
The
Commonwealth
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
India
Pakistan
Ceylon
Southern Rhodesia
Nigeria
Malaya
Kenya
Nyasaland
West Indies
Gibraltar
Malta
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Roger Makins
New York
United Kingdom
Information Office
Royal Empire Society
Patricia E. Roy
St. Ann’s Academy
New Westminster
B.C
British Commonwealth and Empire
British Air Ministry
Andrew Tomson
Toronto
Canadian Meteorological Service
Britain
Cotton Board
Manchester
London Royal College of Art
Gems and Thoughts on Nature from Historic Voices
A collection of epigraphs on nature praising creation and human virtue. Names include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nova us, Mary Baker Eddy, George Croly, George Fulier, and Francis Bacon with reflections on nature as music, guidance, beauty, and transition from night to day.
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George Croly
Nature
George Fulier
Francis Bacon
GOOD SWIMMER INDIAN RIVER MOOSE STORY
The piece notes a strong swimmer, likening the moose of Canadian forests to a capable river navigator. It mentions fish with poor hearing yet keen smell and includes a stray number 3145.
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