New Period of Western Canada Business Expansion Begins
Article notes steady West trading with harvests and land prep for 1932 crops. Emphasizes Canada assets of thirty billion dollars, rising Western manufacturing inquiries, and overseas talks toward Western branches, signaling upcoming development and a return to higher trade levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Regina
Great Britain
United States
Baffin Island History and Its Naming Changes
The article traces Baffin Island’s size and contested names over time. It notes Frobisher’s 1576 reconnaissance, Parry’s 1822 passages, and map uncertainties. It documents names Cumberland Island Foxe land Metas Incognita Cockburn land and finally Baffin on Admiralty Chart 863 in 1884, with William Baffin’s 1616 northern view of Smith Sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baffin Island
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Martin Frobisher
Baffin
Parry
Fury
Hecla Strait
Arrowsmith
Frobisher
Foxe
Geographic Board of Canada
Baffin Bay
William Baffin
Smith Sound
Hats Off to Walkerville Unemployed Helpers
The unemployed of Walkerville Ontario offer spare time to remove leaves and rubbish from parks and boulevards and to gather fruit and vegetables for welfare work while their wives sew and knit. When they help one another the community spirit shines and earns broad appreciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walkerville
Ontario
Not Safety In Number Costly Uniform Bond For Sergeant Lehmann
Police Sergeant Victor Lehmann was dismissed after four months with his uniform trousers in pawn. He survived by borrowing pants from off duty colleagues until a mass call out required civilian attire. He reported in civilian clothes and was fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Lehmann
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Pattern Office
Winnipeg Pattern Office at 175 McDermot Ave offers pattern orders. Pattern No. Name 3h details appear in the listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Edison Day Spreads From Nation to World
A local proposal to honor Thomas A Edison has grown into a international Edison Day. The Board of Trade Legion Post in Chicago, which first proposed the idea, received a message from Peterborough Ontario urging the League of Nations to establish a world holiday in memory of the inventor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Board of Trade Legion Post
Chicago
Peterborough
Ont
League of Nations
Canada Holds Fourth In Per Capita Trade Among Nations
Canada ranked fourth in per capita trade among world trading nations for 1930, rising from seventh in 1913. The Dominion leads in printing paper, nickel, asbestos, and wheat exports, with strong positions in newsprint, wood pulp, lumber, fish, copper, and raw furs. For the first half of the fiscal year, imports valued at 318.2 million dollars outweighed exports at 295.5 million, with duty collections around 61.3 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Trade and Commerce
Dominion
Department
Canadian Dehydration Plants Probe Local Fruit Stock
The Department of Agriculture in Ottawa runs experimental dehydration plants in Ontario Nova Scotia and British Columbia to assess whether Canadian grown stock could replace imported dried fruit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Department of Agriculture At
Ottawa
Ontario
Nova Scotia
British Columbia
Memo-Go Fishing! Becker recounts global and Canadian adventures
Bob Becker, famed angler and former Woods and Waters editor, chronicles diverse fishing exploits in Memo-Go Fishing. The 350 page volume covers swordfish, sailfish, Dolly Varden, golden trout, bass, barracuda, pike, and piranha with emphasis on Canada’s French River Nipigon River and Lake of the Woods. Photographs illustrate battles, including a Nipigon River trout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Bob Becker
Chicago Tribune
Becker
Pacific
Gulf Stream
Alaskan
Sierras
Canada
Dominion
French River
Nipigon River
Lake of the Woods
Wood Buffalo Park Map Issued For Administration Aid
The Topographical Survey of the Department of the Interior issues an exploratory eight miles to the inch map of Wood Buffalo Park. Located west of Slave and Athabaska Rivers in Alberta and the Northwest Territories, it covers about 17 300 square miles. Data mainly from aerial photography, region remains sparsely mapped and further work is needed for complete details. It is the northernmost large mapped area in Canada to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood Buffalo Park
North West Territories
Yukon
Department of the Interior
Slave and Athabaska Rivers
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Canada
Caution for Farmers Over Rising Prices
A Saugeen township farmer warned that profits may invite recklessness as markets swing. He recalled shipping a cow to the Toronto market where after expenses he earned only 87 cents, a cautionary tale on earnings versus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saugeen Township
Toronto
Bandits Take Safe Carrying Twenty Shillings
A robbery tale reports bandits seizing a safe that carried twenty shillings from London toward Bristol before the theft was noticed. The remark notes how far a pound could stretch in those times.
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London
Bristol
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John F. Sweeting
Western Lines
Canadian Pacific Railway
Kasper
Stockholm
By Annette
Hollywood
Herbert Marshall
Australia
Marshall
Christian Science Monitor
Gaies
Yverdon
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