Canada survey tracks family budgets in 12 cities
Ottawa field agents in 12 Canadian cities began collecting data from 5 000 families on weekly expenses for food clothing and other budget items. The study aims to assess whether incomes of 2 500 dollars or less provide adequate nutrition and necessities, with results due in October and submitted to the Canadian Council of Nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Bureau of Initiation
KR. H Coats
Dominion Statistician
Canadian Council of Nutrition
Health Department
National Research Council
Agricultural and Labor Departments
Agriculture Department
Trans-Canada Airlines Eyes Self-Sustaining Low Profile
Phillip G. Johnson, operating vice-president, said Trans-Canada Airlines could be self-sustaining if kept small and flexible. Regular cross-country service date not set as experimental flights continue Montreal to Winnipeg and Winnipeg to the west coast. Western division will prioritize passenger flights with tariffs around six cents per mile, comparable to U S routes. Montreal to maritime provinces delayed until 1939.
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Montreal
Trans-Canada Airlines
Phillip G. Johnson
Johnson
Winnipeg
Prairies
Rockies
United States
Maritime Provinces
Darbey Named Senior Poultry Fieldman in Dominion Service
Ottawa announces the appointment of A. J. Darbey, former Saskatchewan poultry fieldman, as senior poultry fieldman in the Dominion department of agriculture. He will oversee performance records and hatchery approval work as chief assistant in the poultry production service. The second item notes Mount Everest would be submerged about one and one-fifth miles if placed at the ocean’s deepest point.
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Ottawa
A. J. Darbey
Saskatchewan
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Lord Shaughnessy Dies After Illness at Montreal
Lord Shaughnessy son of the first Barwon Shaughnessy and former chairman of Canadian Pacific Railway died in hospital from double pneumonia at Montreal. He was 51 and had a long career in law military service and finance with several firms and companies. Survivors include three daughters and one son.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Montreal
Shaughnessy
Barwon Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Bishop's College School
Lennoxville
Que
McGill University
Laval University
Trinity College
Cambridge
England
Meredith, Macpherson, Hague and Holden
King's Counsel
Irish Canadian Rangers
France
Sir Arthur Currie
Canadian Irish Rangers
199Th
Lord Shaughnessy
C.P.R. and
West Kootenay Power and Light Company
Marian Laura Graham
Lord Athelstan
Proposes Home For Eskimos At Pangnirtung
Rt Rev A L Fleming Anglican bishop of the Arctic proposes that the Dominion government fund a home for aged Eskimos at Pangnirtung Baffin Island thirty miles south of the Arctic circle. The North West Territories Council has not yet reviewed the plan. Fleming spoke of the need in a sermon at St Pauls Church Toronto.
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Ottawa
Northwest Territories Council
A. L. Fleming
Arctic
Dominion
Pangnirtung
Baffin Island
Arctic Circle
Fleming
St. Paul's Church
Toronto
Camps For Jobless Victoria Return This Winter
Hon. George S. Pearson announces re opening of camps in British Columbia to provide work for single unemployed men. The provincial labor minister says an arrangement with the federal government similar to last year will be made, discussions held in Ottawa with federal labor minister Norman Rogers, agreement pending final unsettled details.
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Victoria
British Columbia
George S. Pearson
Labor
Pearson
Ottawa
Norman Rogers
Soviet Russia Signals Denunciation of Franco-Soviet Pact
British circles show mixed reaction as Moscow hints at ending the Franco-Soviet treaty. Some officials see it clearing the path for a four power western European pact while anti-government factions fear London and Paris would face Germany alone if the fuehrer moved west.
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London
Russia
Moscow
France
Europe
Great Britain
Paris
Germany
Fuehrer
Toronto to bestow honorary degrees at special convocation
Lady Tweedsmuir wife of Lord Tweedsmuir governor general of Canada will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Toronto at a convocation on October 14. Hon Ernest Lapointe minister of justice and W Sherwood Fox president of University of Ontario will receive similar degrees.
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Toronto
Lady Tweedsmuir
Lord Tweedsmuir
Goernor-General of
Canada
University of Toronto
Ernest Lapoint
W. Sherwood Fox
University Ontario
Record Grain Shipments at Calgary Terminals
Calgary terminals on the Canadian government elevator system reported full storage capacity of grain. An embargo on incoming shipments from country points to the terminal followed record September shipments. Seventeen million bushels moved in 10,000 cars valued at $9.6 million, a new all time high since grain inspection began forty years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calgary
Edmonton
Grain Inspection Service
Plan to Split Spain Into Two Nations Rejected by Government
Spain rejected a plan to partition the country into a democracy and a dictatorship. British and Italian talks in Rome discussed possible conditions for a broader European settlement. Premier Negrin opposed division as evacuees, including about 1000 North Americans, prepared to leave.
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Paris
Spain
Munich
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Great Britain
France
Italy
Rome
Lord Perth
Count Cinao
Britain
Juan Negrin
Cortes
London
Parachute Rescue After RAF Planes Crash
Ten flyers survive after two Royal Air Force planes crash. Crews parachuted to safety with one crash tilted into Yorkshire and the other into the English Channel.
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London
Royal Air Force
Yorkshire
English Channel
Freight Rate Argument Ottawa
Lake shippers asked for a temporary maximum rate of 72 cents per bushel to ship wheat from the lake head to St Lawrence ports. The board of grain commissioners refused, leaving the seven cent rate in place until a decision on representations is made, citing years of losses and threatened lake operations.
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Ottawa
Lakehead
St. Lawrence
Board of Grain Commissioners
Grey Owl Estate in Toronto Delayed by Conflicting Claims
Toronto publisher Hugh Bayrs says Grey Owl's considerable fortune dies undisbursed due to conflicting claims and publicity over the estate. His widow has been unable to collect any portion. After the naturalist's death earlier this year there was dispute over his identity and origins with claims he was born in England of white parents.
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Toronto
Hugh Bayrs
Grey Owl
England
Settlement of Labor Disputes Urged by Transit Association
Toronto president Charles W Chase of the American Transit Association urged a national peaceful method to determine wages replacing failed arbitral methods. He said labor and management must secure high wages under best conditions as earnings permit while preserving property, credit, returns to owners, and efficient public service.
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Toronto
Charles W Chase
American Transit Association
Churchill denounces Munich pact as British risk and defeat
Churchill hurls sharp criticism at Chamberlain’s Munich agreement, calling it a total defeat that could lead to German domination in Europe. He urges immediate rearmament, air supremacy, and mobilization, citing defences neglect and diplomatic slumps including Poland embassy insult. Richard Acland supports the attack with vivid Prague anecdote and condemnation of Polish tensions.
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London
Winston Churchill
Chamberlain
Hitler
Churchill
Great Britain
Mussolini
Daladier
Europe
Britain
Richard Acland
Czechoslovakia
The
House
Prague
Seaplane Wreck Near Esquimalt Harbor Injures Two
Victoria residents Captain Terry Finney and Ralph Bonner escaped with slight injuries after their De Haviland Moth seaplane ran out of control and plunged about 100 feet into a boom of logs in Esquimalt harbor.
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Victoria
Terry Finney
Ralph Bonner
Esquimalt Harbor
France Would Keep Russia as Ally in European Guarantee
Paris reports Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told the foreign affairs committee that France still seeks Russia as an ally and may include her in a guarantee for what remains of Czechoslovakia. The hearing followed the disclosure of a Hitler telegram to Pierre Flandin and Daladier moved to demobilize despite unclear German actions.
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Paris
Froreign
Georges Bonnet
Foreign Affairs Committee
Chamber of Deputies
France
Soviet Union
Germany
Hitler
Pierre Flandin
Thefuehrer
Flandin
Bonnet
Russia
Czechoslovakia
John
Chamberlain
Munich
Britain
Italy
European Affairs
National Marketing Policy outlined for western Canada
W A Landreth of Winnipeg urged a national marketing policy and a permanent commission to open overseas markets for Canadian farm products. He said eastern Canada cannot absorb rising western surpluses and stressed butter eggs cheese and poultry meats require new markets in Europe and Britain for lasting prosperity.
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Saskatoon
United Kingdom
Western Canada
W. A. Landreth
Winnipeg
Western Canadian Producers’ Association
Canada
Mr. Landreth
Tanganyika Claimed by Germany Teeters Over British Africa
The East African Standard urged consulting Nairobi and British East Africa before irrevocable decisions on Tanganyika, warning Prime Minister Chamberlain against negotiating without East African territories and South Africa knowledge. Tanganyika, once German East Africa, lies south of Kenya and features in Germany's colonial claims.
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Nairobi
Kenya
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Grey Owl's Estate
Mergy
Selves
National Marketing Policy
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