Pioneer Prairie Clergyman Traces Kelsey Route Across Prairies
Regina report details Reverend Whillans research into Henry Kelsey's 1690 western exploration. He identifies Deering's Point on the Waskashreeseebee as The Pass, traces Kelsey's 600 mile prairie crossing with Indigenous allies, and notes Kelsey's later hardships and burial unknown in London.
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Henry Kelsey
Hudsons Bay Company
Me Whillans
Kelsey
Canadian Prairies
CBK
Watrous
Sask
Whillans
Carrot River
Parson
Scotland
Saskatchewan
Fort York
Deerings Point
Pattern 7296 Overalls and Accessories
Sewing note describes easy to make overalls with knee patches and padding, plus a helmet and bean bag. Mentions transfers for patches and patterns for multiple sizes. Instructions request twenty five cents to obtain pattern 7296 by mail, with stamps not accepted.
1952 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book showcased
Household Arts Department of Winni Newspaper Union presents the 1952 edition of Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book. Brimful of new ideas and ninety one illustrations of patterns plus six easy patterns printed in the book. Only twenty five cents.
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Alice Brooks
Answers to Quick Quiz Answers
The list presents quick quiz results: 5. 20 million. 3. More than 6.0 billion. 1. Raald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, 1903-06. 4 The white fox. 2. British Columbia, more than 40 percent gain. Material supplied by Quick Canadian Facts editors.
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Raald Amundssen
British Columbia
Quick Canadian Facts
Canada
Oddities in the News Headlines Mixed Local Tales
A Fort Worth detective pursues a burglary case after vacation and meets the same suspect. An Alliance man seeks life insurance under the name Herbert L Guess. A Colorado vacation ends with a fishing pole inquiry about worms. A Tennessee man sues for divorce over desertion dating to 1911. The Griser family gains another child twins and a prior set of twins and triplets. An Evansville man is stabbed twice blamed on his wife, who remains angry.
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W. E. B. Kearney
Fort Worth
Tex
Kearney
Loretta Upton
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Neb
Colorado
William Barrett
Evansville
Ind
Immigration figures rise in Canada eight months in 1952
Ottawa reports 126,029 immigrants arrived in the first eight months, up from 116,657 a year earlier. Britain to Canada immigration climbs 51 percent, to 30,137. United States arrivals total 5,956, up 14 percent. Ontario takes 66,516 immigrants, with regional tallies for Quebec and other provinces. Canada admitted 194,000 new citizens in 1951, the largest since 1913.
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Ottawa
Canada
Immigration Department
Britain
United States
Ontario
Quebec
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
British Columbia
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Bite of the Human Jaw Outpowers Hand Grip Claim
A historical note states that the jaw bite carries more force than the hand grasp, illustrating comparisons of bite strength to grip power. No additional individuals or organizations are referenced in the fragment.
Canada’s 1951 fires blamed on carelessness and prevention gaps
Some 60 000 fires caused 493 deaths and 76 000 600 dollars in losses in Canada in 1951, largely from careless handling of heat, flames and electricity. Fire Prevention Week urges homes factories and institutions to inspect heating and electrical devices, improve fire walls and water supplies, and train personnel to cut fire risk.
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Dominion
Ottawa
Canada
Devilled Egg Sandwiches and Prune Peanut Filling Card
Recipe notes describe making five devilled egg sandwiches using butter mustard paprika and eggs with five bread slices. It also covers prune peanut filling combining prunes peanut butter mayonnaise salt to yield filling for four sandwiches.
Pacific Salmon Fishing Comes Back in British Columbia
Canadian and U.S. scientists say the Pacific salmon fishery may rebound to historic levels. Sockeye runs are increasing after Hell's Gate barriers were mitigated and spawning beds protected. Predictions cite several hundred thousand sockeye from the Quesnel and Skeena River regions aided by slide-clearing work and international cooperation.
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Ottawa
Hell's Gate Canyon
Fraser River
Fraser System
Hel’s Gate
The
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Hell's Gate
Quesnel
Fraser
Federal Department of Fisheries
Skeena River
British Columbia
Skeena
Babine River
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
A mother observes the passage from childhood to adulthood in her children. She notes small, practical signs like pressed pants and careful grooming as markers that childhood has ended. The poem emphasizes perceptive, quiet awareness over dates or milestones.
Smile Of The Week Manager Faces Travellers Rant
The secretary reports a traveller named Robinson insulted the staff and demanded the manager chase himself. The manager considers firing him, noting five months of service with rising earnings: 100, 500, 3000, 9000. He jokes about requiring exercise and a caretaker lending a frying pan.
Helpful Home Remedies for Household Maintenance
A guide covers refilling feather pillows with camphor to prevent odor, repairing rubber hot water bottle leaks with layered liquid court plaster, removing bluing stains with ammonia or kerosene and naphtha soap, and restoring badly blackened plated silverware using a mixture of sal ammoniac and vinegar followed by soap and water, with optional polishing using sweet oil and magnesia or whiting.
Quick Canadian Quiz: North Atlantic to Pacific Sailor
A trivia item asks who first sailed Canada's north from the Atlantic to the Pacific and which province showed the largest population gain from 1941 to 1951. It notes 1944 payments to government and projects future tax totals, plus Eskimo trappers and population growth forecasts.
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Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
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Llans
Regina
Termine
Saskeram Lake
Cumberland House
Carrot
South Saskatchewan
Eagle Hills
Battle River
Alberta-Saskatchewan
Forks
Hudson Bay
Veer Brook
Winni Newspaper Union
At Street W
Toronto
Josh Winbush
Meg Yons
Tenn
Wur Griser
Pittsburgh
Irma Griser
Port Arthur
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C. A. Thomson
Ommissioner
By Jane Dale
Junior
Robinson
Gay Toys
Quick
By Len Kleis
Virgil
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