Wise Use And Management Of Natural Resources
The Saskatchewan farmer faces drought through soil, water, and forest conservation. The Canadian Forestry Association promotes soil selectivity, tree shelter belts, and field belts to protect soil, improve yields, and provide home food, fuel, and economy. A provincial conservation board and widespread education are urged to sustain agriculture and rural life.
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Saskatchewan
Canadian Forestry Association
Association
Prairies
Canada
Park Belt
Forest of
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers
This reader supplied material lists answers for a Quick Canadian Facts quiz. It names Sir Robert Borden as answer five and Hamilton as item four, with Royal William built in Quebec City for item two. The third item notes a figure of 1,220,000 and claims this year's total is an all time high.
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Sir Robert Borden
Hamilton
Royal William
Quebec City
Quick Canadian Facts
Handbook of Facts About
Canada
Nearly Third More Motorists Visited Canada This September
Canada reports September vehicle entries total 305205 with traveler permits up 31 percent from last year 232580. Labour Day timing boosted August September counts and nine month total rose 9 percent to 2159997 with Ontario and British Columbia driving gains.
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Canada
Ontario
British Columbia
Quebec
Brisk business as power outage boosts Yorkton hardware trade
A brief dusk power stoppage in Yorkton Sask caused shoppers to rush hardware stores. One merchant reported higher gas and oil lamp sales than in the last six months and strong demand for old time lanterns and candles.
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Yorkton
Sask
Wild Ducks Menace To B C Aircraft
Vancouver airport battles thousands of ducks roosting near the end of an 8600 foot runway built for jets. Ducks grounded two Trans-Canada Air Lines planes and a four engine North Star, prompting ground crews to remove debris from engines. Authorities test a loud siren to deter the birds.
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Vancouver
International
Here
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Health League Gathers In Toronto On Aging Topics
The Health League of Canada holds its 34th annual meeting in Toronto from November 30 to December 2. Medical and personnel professionals, insurers, industrialists, and employee representatives will discuss aging and retirement issues. Dr. Ronald Buchan of Prudential will speak at the December 1 dinner and join a round table with industry and medical figures. Dr. Ian Macdonald of Toronto chairs the organizing committee, with Prof. W. W. Bladen of the University of Toronto giving an opening luncheon on health value to industry.
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Health League of Canada
Toronto
Ronald Buchan
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Newark
N.J
Ian Macdonald
Health League
W. W. Bladen
Department of Political Economy
University of Toronto
Canadians plan 95000 homes this year answer unknown
The prompt asks several knowledge questions across Canadian history and demographics. It mentions 95 000 new homes, union membership, the first steam powered Atlantic crossing ship and its build location, Canada's fifth largest city, and the WWI Prime Minister, but does not supply answers.
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Canada
Smile Of The Week Blacksmith Boy Spoof
A boy with a sooty face and hands enters his mother's kitchen and jokes that he is a black smith, prompting lighthearted mom humor about his appearance and identity.
Beef travels about 1000 miles from producer to consumer
A Twentieth Century Fund report finds the average distance beef travels in the United States from producer to consumer is about 1000 miles, highlighting supply chain inefficiencies and regional trade patterns.
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United States
Twentieth Century Fund
Canadiana and regional notes weave through a rural mosaic
The column gathers brief samples from across Canada. Apples picked in Nova Scotia. Bullseyes at a Barrie shoot by de Haas and Goodman. Ontario school costs rise per room. A South Africa letter to Duncan on living near Cowichan Leader. Alarm tests at Lumby spur quick student exit. Fire backdrops at Tilston devastate farm holdings. Moose sighting near Almonte. Waterloo crash with a buggy and a thrown rider. Alberta telephones demand house numbers. A Hanna hunter witnesses a neck-wringing goose tale. MacIntosh apple tree in Assiniboia. Canada’s anti-combine talk and tax views surface in Vernon and other papers. Railways and mint money notes surface in Manitoba, Ontario, and Preston.
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Hildred Stoddard
Hantsford
N.S
Ontario Arms’ Collectors Association
Barrie
Canada
Umtata
Transkei
South Africa
Duncan
B.C
Lumby
George Brisco
Ray Jones
Tilston
Man
Indian Head
Sask
Jack Wilson
Almonte
Ont
Earl Caldwell
Waterloo
Lavina Frey
Taber
Alta
Alberta
Danny Smith
Hanna
Goose
U.S
Britain
Vernon
Morden
Bedspring Invention By James Liddy Of Water Town
James Liddy of Water Town New York invented the bedspring in 1853 inspired by the coiled springs used in buggy seats. The invention marks an early development in bedding technology credited to a local craftsman.
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James Liddy
Watertown
N.Y
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Royal Commission On Agriculture and Rural Life
Prairie Provinces Division
New Brunswick
Manitoba
Yukon
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Orioles
Memories Stadium
Baltimore
Baltimore Orioles
St. Louis Browns
Bill Veeck
Navy
Cornell
Preston
Royal Canadian Mint
Bank of Canada
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