Tariff effects on Canadian industry and municipal funding
The Canadian Importers' Civil Traders Association told the Howell commission that tariffs mainly benefited central provinces and left many in manufacturing and agriculture undercut. They cited 1936 figures for workers and output, urging tariff reductions to fix inequities. They also urged shifts in education and social service costs to provinces and the Dominion, with municipalities bearing real estate and new local taxes to fund services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ontario Municipal Association
National Construction Council
Municipal Association
Provinces
Bear Hospital
Association
Sacrifices Necessary to Defend Democracy Warns Eden
Anthony Eden, two months after resigning as foreign secretary, told a Royal Society of St George dinner that sacrifices were needed to meet the gains of dictator-led nations to preserve liberty. He urged a united effort for spiritual and material rearmament of Britain.
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London
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Abirty
Far Northwest China Campaign Threatens Land Routes
The Japanese army advances toward Soviet influence near outer Mongolia within 100 miles, raising fears the drive could endanger land routes used to move Russian war supplies to China. In Toronto, a parcel bought at auction contained less than 100 dollars, not the earlier 5 000 to 6 000 dollar estimate, and suggests possible theft during investigation by Chief Inspector John Chisholm’s detectives.
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Shanghai
China
Outer Mongolia
Soviet Union
Toronto
Mabel Bowes
John Chisholm
Provincial Borrowing Control Urged for Credit Protection
The Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association urged provincial control of municipal borrowing to protect credit and prevent overexpansion. It cited loss of investor confidence in municipal securities and warned against extravagant borrowing for projects, noting the taxpayer cost and the misalignment with productive needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion Mortgage and Investments Association
Royal Commission On Dominionations
Canada
Universities Ask Hitler to Spare Books at Vienna Library
Princeton and Yale sent pleas to Hitler over the planned purge of non Aryan volumes at Vienna’s national library. editor James Clarke wired five dollars and thirty two cents. Yale’s Gaspard Bain urged Princeton and Harvard writers to join the drive. Brooklyn’s Raymond Ingersoll also cabled the chief librarian.
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New York
Hitler
Vienna
National
United States
Princeton
Yale
Brooklyn
James Clarke
Princetonian
Gaspard D. A. Bain
Yale Daily News
Harvard Crimson
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Austrian National Library
Hull man praised by prime minister for halting train
Lucien Gagnon of Hull received personal congratulations from Prime Minister Mackenzie King after he flagged a Canadian Pacific trans continental train to stop a dangerous obstruction on the tracks. A horse had lain on the rails and could have caused a wreck.
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Hull
Que
Lucien Gagnon
Canadian Pacific Railways
Mackenzie King
By-Election Set for Dewaney May 20 in Fraser Valley
Voters in the Fraser valley riding of Dewaney go to the polls May 20 to fill the BC legislature vacancy after the death of Dr. Frank Hatterson, Conservative opposition leader. Nominations close May 16 for a likely three cornered race.
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Victoria
Fraser Valley
Dewaney
British Columbia
Frank Hatterson
Magistrate Fined For Reckless Driving in Ontario Court
Magistrate H D McCrimmon of St Thomas appeared in his own jurisdiction and pleaded guilty to reckless driving. He paid a $10 fine and $5.40 costs after the hearing. Magistrate C W Hawkshaw was brought in to hear the case.
Trans-Canada Air Lines to Start Winnipeg Vancouver Service
Air mail and express service on a commercial basis will open between Winnipeg and Vancouver on May 15 under Trans-Canada Air Lines. Eastern Canada expansion depends on equipment deliveries and facility completion. Regular schedules run Winnipeg to Vancouver daily, with Winnipeg Regina night flights for pilot experience. Two of ten new Lockheed planes have arrived. the rest due by September. aircraft carry 12 passengers and two pilots but will be limited to 10 on 12 passenger planes and eight on 10 passenger planes.
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Ottawa
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
Vancouver
C. D. Howe
Commons’ Railway Committee
Eastern Canada
Regina
Kapuskasing
Purchase of Rambouillet Flocks Aims to Improve Western Canada Sheep
The Department of Agriculture announced plan to buy two flocks of pure Rambouillet sheep to boost sheep raising in western Canada and provide farmers with a revenue product. Each flock has 200 ewes and six rams.
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Ottawa
Canada
Drouth
Department of Agriculture
Critics Attack Budget as War Tax Burden in Commons
The opposition assailed the governments preparations for war and the so called most unpopular budget in years. Labour and Liberal leaders faulted the rise in income tea and oil taxes and urged harsher measures to curb tax evasion by the wealthy.
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London
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Prince
Labor
W. W. Stokes
Archibald Sinclair
F. W. Pethick-Lawrence
Pethick-Lawrence
Labor Party
John Simon
Banting to Exhibit Paintings in San Francisco Show
Two paintings by Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, will be shown at the first annual exhibition of the American Physicians' Art Association in June in San Francisco. Banting noted he began painting in London Ontario after he had little to do as a general practitioner there.
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Toronto
Frederick Banting
American Physicians’ Art Association
San Francisco
Frederick
London
Ont
Fort Frontenac Ruins Identified in Kingston Dig
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery officers confirm the unearthed southwest bastion near Kingston Ontario is part of Fort Frontenac. The 1673 fort built by LaSalle was uncovered during recent excavation work.
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Kingston
Ont
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Brigade
Fort Frontenac
LaSalle
Level Crossing Fatality in Sunridge Ont Five Dead
Five of six Sunridge farmers en route on a fishing trip died when their automobile collided with a freight train at a level crossing. The sixth man survived with a fractured hip and internal injuries and was hospitalized.
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Sunridge
Ont
Peaceful solution of the Czech problem eyed by German official
Berlin reports a German cabinet official predicts a peaceful settlement over the Sudeten issue without bloodshed. He says Poland could strike if shootings occur and that France must understand it will not be drawn into war. He notes Sudeten Germans seek to join their “natural father land.” Krebs named gauleiter for Sudeten region amidst shifting Czechoslovak politics.
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Berlin
Kia
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Frank
England
Offic
France
Europe
Reich
Hans Krebs
Iglau
Julius Streicher
Franconia
Joseph Buerckel
Saar
Austria
Erich Koch
East Prussia
Krebs
Historic UK Ireland pact signing at No 10 Downing Street
The ceremony featured Joseph Chamberlain’s son and Eamon de Valera as leaders. Neville Chamberlain presented de Valera with an ancient pair of field glasses from the 1916 Easter uprising final surrender. They then clasped hands to seal the pact.
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London
No. 10
Downing Street
Joseph Chamberlain
Eamon de Valera
Neville Chamberlain
Mr. de Valera
Dublin
Funeral for John W. L. Forster Opens Carlton Street Church
Premier Mackenzie King served as honorary pallbearer at the funeral of John W. L. Forster a noted Canadian artist and portraitist held at Carlton Street United Church. Forster dean of Canadian artists and internationally known painter passed away prompting services attended by arts figures and officials.
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Toronto
Mackenzie King
John W. L. Forster
Carlton Street United Church
Ottawa to Amend Criminal Code on Highway Accidents
The government will introduce in the House of Commons within two weeks a bill to amend the criminal code sections dealing with highway accidents. Justice Minister E. Lapointe announced the move.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
E. Lapointe
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Russia
Quebec Bay
John Gilmour
Pollock
Glasgow
Air Mail Service
Eunice
Rosemary Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
U.S
Court of St. James
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