Canada Builds Coastal Anti Aircraft Batteries To Repel Invasion
Canada concentrates coastal defense along the Atlantic seaboard with anti aircraft batteries, searchlights, range finders, and predicting gear manned by crews of seven to eight. The system aims to detect, locate, and strike hostile aircraft within the five second window as shells are ferried from munition rooms to guns. Additionally, Canada reports ground wireless operators from Canadian schools joining the Royal Air Force amid growing air training plans and the creation of the Royal Canadian Air Force Medical Corps with its own nursing service.
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Canada
Munderm
Atlantic Seaboard
Usase
Dominion
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
C. G. Power
Royal Canadian Air Force
Air Force
Royal Canadian Air Force Medical Corps
Navy Rewards Canada for inventive wartime contributions
The Navy Rewards Canada program credits two Royal Canadian Navy members for inventive work aiding the British cause. Lieut A Medland of Toronto receives £25 for improving gun mountings that resist icing, and Electrical Artificer Stanley C Gomdyer of Halifax earns £5. Medland joined the RCN as a cadet in September 1930.
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Royal Canadian Navy
Lieut . A. Medland
Toronto
Stanley C. Gomdyer
Halifax
Lieut. Medland
Winter
Lieut
Medland
The
RCN
Artichokes Draw Fresh Attention as Veggie Aristocrats
Artichokes possess a renowned status among vegetables, noted for their refinement and distinctive appeal in culinary circles. Their tall spears and globe shapes symbolize a premium garden staple with storied use.
Wheat germ urged to boost Canadian bread nutrition
The Dominion government is urged by the Canadian Public Health Association to add wheat germ to flour to improve vitamin B intake. White bread supplies about a third of daily nutrition while milling removes most wheat germ. Delegates also seek regular health supervision for war industry workers and compulsory pasteurization of milk products.
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Dominion
The
Canadian Public Health Association
Association
Canada
Buckingham Palace Origin and Rise in Royal History
The article traces Buckingham Palace from a garden keeper’s house named Goring and Arlington to Buckingham House rebuilt in 1703 and purchased by George III. It was remodeled for George IV around 1825, renamed Buckingham Palace, and became a royal residence after Queen Victoria’s accession in 1837, superseding St James's Palace.
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Buckingham
Queen Victoria
St. James's Palace
Marlborough House
London
Buckingham Palace
James I
Goring House
Arlington House
Buckingham House
George III
George IV
Buckingham Pa
Maori Battalion Enlistment Reaches 4103 by July
The London Times reports by July 22 voluntary recruitment stopped with 4103 Maori men enlisted in the Maori battalion. New Zealand Defence Minister Jones calls the response gratifying, over 40 percent of eligible Maoris, promising reinforcements for some time. London air alarms and the Thames water bus service are noted, with crowds at Westminster to Woolwich ferries and a joking passenger line. Meteorites are described as about 90 percent iron.
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London Times
New Zealand
Defence
Jones
British India
Hitler
Mussolini
Britain
Cadbury's, Rowntree’s
Will's
Fac
Scots face a new world as a Chinese girl wins sword dance
An Ottawa Journal note cites a Toronto fair where nine year old Joyce Chan, of Chinese heritage, wins the silver cup in sword dancing, while an Aberdeen lad Donald Bain dislikes Canadian porridge. The piece muses on changing Scottish identity amid gravity of cultural shifts.
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Toronto Fair
McTavishes
McIntoshes
McLeods
McNeilils
Joyce Chan
Donald Bain
Aberdeen
Toronto
Donald
Canada
Ottawa Journal
Nazi Press Chief interned in Canada camp
Ernst Hanfstaengl once a confidant of Hitler is confined in a Canadian internment camp for enemy aliens in England and sent to Canada for safekeeping. His son at Harvard confirmed the father's internment in a letter describing him as a voluntary exile from Germany.
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Ernst
Putzi) Hanfstaeng
England
Canada
Adolf Hitler
Hanfstaengl
Germany
Wheat Donations to Red Cross Under Wheat Board Rules
Producer must not endorse a Storage ticket to the Red Cross Society as this transfers ownership. Under the Canadian Wheat Board Act the board cannot buy wheat from anyone but the actual producer. The contribution must be cash, payable to the Red Cross Society, with the donor retaining the producer's stub.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Canadian Wheat Board
Italians Claim Paul Revere In Messagero Story
The Messagero essay presents Paul Revere as Paolo Revere an Italian who hated the British and aided in driving them from the United States during the War of Independence. It claims his birth in Italy in 1723 5.
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Messagero
Paul Revere
United States
Paolo Revere
Italy
A Queer Custom and Tragic Tribal Practices
A passage describes a grim custom among certain African tribes where men kill themselves or act to punish enemies. one example notes a man hanging himself to punish a slow paying debtor as a cultural practice.
British Commonwealth A Huge Experiment In Internationalism
The British Commonwealth is a vast global experiment in cooperative nations. It includes self governing Dominions free to act, colonies guided toward autonomy, and nations like India and Burma nearing equal status, all united by liberty and progress rather than domination.
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British Commonwealth
Dominions
Canaad
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
Fife
Great Britain
Germany
British Commonwealth of Nations
India
Burma
Hitler
Mussolini
Vast Labors Behind A Pound Of Honey
The article explains that producing one pound of honey requires bees to gather nectar from over 62,000 clover blossoms and make about 2,759,000 flower visits. It notes bees travel miles from the hive to reach distant clover fields, highlighting the immense effort behind honey production.
Columbus Portraits Show No Lifelong Painted Image
More than 80 portraits of Christopher Columbus exist yet none was painted from life during his lifetime. The compiled images reflect later interpretation rather than authentic likenesses.
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Christopher Columbus
American
Unusual Auto Instalment Tale From Montreal Star
A Montreal Star feature notes a motorist still paying installments on the car he exchanged for the car he later bought. The piece highlights pecuniary obligations and the oddity of continuing payments on a vehicle traded in.
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The
Montreal Star
Tree planted by Queen Mary destroyed by bomb
A tree in a Southeast town planted by Queen Mary nineteen years ago to mark the victory of the last war was destroyed by a high explosive bomb.
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Queen Mary
Icelandic Parades End With Anthem Then God Save the King
Icelanders show courtesy to defenders as church parades finish with the nag tlomal anthem of Iceland followed by God Save the King.
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Iceland
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