National Parks in Canada Preserve Wildlife Under Natural Conditions
Canada’s national parks serve as wildlife sanctuaries and natural museums where visitors observe animals in their native habitat with minimal disturbance. The text highlights bears, moose, deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, and buffalo, urging visitors not to feed wildlife while praising parks as primeval Canada preserved for healthful recreation and ecological study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Widlife Sanctuaries
British Navy Seizes South American Hides From Blockade Runners
News notes captured leather cargoes sent to Russia after being seized by the British Navy from German and Italian blockade runners. In the months before war Japan’s entry, over 2000 tons of hides were seized. Germany had imported large amounts from Argentina, and Britain’s action disrupts supplies for German boot and equipment leather.
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Great Britain
Russia
Japan
Germany
British Industries
Gift of book sent to war child after crash
After Captain Francis Bradbrooke was killed en route to Canada, a tattered parcel found near the crash contained The Wind in the Willows addressed to his six year old daughter Donna Bradbrooke in Toronto. A Scottish woman bought a second copy for Donna and arranged to send the original to Captain Bradbrooke’s wife in London, and the grandmother in Toronto received the gift.
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Francis Bradbrooke
Canada
Toronto
Bradbrook
Evening Telegram
Donna Bradbrooke
Donna
Monro Grier
Captain Bradbrooke
London
England
Tender and Tough Rescue Motto Told by Sir Ernest Gowers
London senior regional commissioner Sir Ernest Gowers praised rescue squads from the building trades at the London Master Builders festival. He recounted wartime blitz scenes showing courage and care, including a nurse’s hand beneath rubble and a rescuer’s gentle touch as debris was cleared.
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Sir Ernest Gowers
London
Master Builders’ Association
Goering
Ernest
Woman Professor Threads Root Hairs To Prove Water Absorption
Prof Hilda Rosene at the University of Texas has threaded fine root hairs into capillary glass tubes under a microscope to prove their role in water absorption. Her method enables experiments on the electrical properties of these hairs and how plants absorb nutrients, challenging 50 years of assumed functions.
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Hilda Rosene
University of Texas
Cross of Snow Stands Over Holy Cross National Forest
A famous feature in Colorado named the Cross of Snow appears as two deep crevasses that form a striking cross on the mountainside and remains visible from great distances across the landscape.
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Holy Cross National Forest
Colorado
Monthly food stock for 4000 meals in Canadian plant
Thirteen tons of potatoes twelve tons of meat two tons of butter and seventeen kinds of vegetables are required each month to feed four thousand meals daily at a large Canadian explosives filling plant.
Danes Turn Against Nazis Amid German Occupation
A Copenhagen refugee recalls Danish humiliation then anger as anti German sentiment rises. He notes British bombings, fear of Allied judgment, and widespread radio listenership to England and American broadcasts. The Freesender station remains popular and many rely on short-wave receivers.
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Copenhagen
R.A F
Amager
Denmark
England
United States
Germany
Boston
London
Idea Is Wrong About Temperature and Hen Behavior
The text asserts humans stay around 98 degrees despite cold and notes a setting hen turns eggs about every 15 minutes. It presents two separate facts about biology and poultry care in a concise, instructive style.
Tall Applicants Welcome for C W A A F Enlistment
R C A F recruiting notes set height limits five feet minimum and six feet maximum with a ten pound leeway. Dr M Houze says most women examined pass the medicals though a few are rejected for weight vision or dental issues. He adds women recruits are as fit as male recruits and some can be taller than six feet. The article also mentions glasses and flat feet criteria and notes Greenland ice cap thickness at 1000 feet.
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C.W.A.A.F
R.C.A.F
M. Houze
Dr. Houze
Houze
Canadians May Face Dietary Shifts Amid Food Shortages
Wartime adviser J. G. Taggart warns Canadians to adjust eating habits due to Pacific theater disruptions. He notes losses of vegetable oils and oils, urges increased production and possible rationing, and stresses shared national responsibility rather than internal quarrels. Ontario growers propose crop adjustments to conserve materials. The piece quotes Taggart on democracy and common effort.
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J. G. Taggart
Pricees and Trade Board
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Mr. Taggart
Ontario
Taggart
Saskatchewan
West
Britain seeks dried serum from Canadian blood donors
Dr C H Best, head of Banting and Best department, told the national blood donors service committee that the British government urgently asked Canada for dried serum derived from 50 000 blood donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Best
Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
National Blood Donors Service Committee
Canadian Red Cross Society
Canada
Britain Reaffirms Old Names Persia and Siam
Richard Law, Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons that Britain will use the old names Persia and Siam for Iran and Thailand, so far as practical in government instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Persia
Siam
Iran
Thailand
Richard Law
House of Commons
Nations
Spider eye count varies by species
Depending on the species, spiders have from two to eight eyes. This fact notes the wide variation in eye number across arachnid groups and highlights diverse sensory adaptations among spiders.
Pronghorned Antelope of the Canadian Plains
The article notes pronghorned antelope live on the Great Plains across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with about 300 remaining in Nemisham Park southern Alberta. It describes its unique horns with a bone core and hollow horn and a white rump patch used as a signal, and cites Thompson Seton on relative speeds with antelope at 32 mph and horses at 34 mph. bucks weigh 100 to 125 pounds and does are smaller.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
Mexico
Canada
National Parks Branch
Nemisham Park
Thompson Seton
Interest Compounded At Four Percent From Christ’s Birth
The calculation shows four percent annual compound interest since the time of Christ would turn one dollar into an extraordinary sum, up to about 600 sextillion dollars, illustrating the power of compounding over millennia. A simple four percent rate would yield far less than eighty six dollars.
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Christ
Tread Lightly Please A Note on Cork Uses and Manners
Cork is used in linoleum mats penholders bottle tops and many other items Canada diverts much of its supply to war industries. Do not judge a man by his manners toward superiors but by his behavior toward his inferiors.
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Charles H. Nissley
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Nissley
New York Sun
Canada
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Hearty Eaters
Alice Brooks
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Mee- Dermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Man
Greenland
Nemiskam National Park
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