Falling Off in Migration From British Isles
Decline in assisted migration from Britain to the Dominions over four years, with Canada taking the largest share in 1927 and 1929. Canada 27,615 then 21,615. Australia 2,126 then 11,525. New Zealand 4,446 then 1,849. Ten pound fare boost to Canada shown as acceleration. Imperial Conference committees near draft reports. disarmament talks progress. MacDonald engages dominion leaders privately to advance the conference.
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London
England
Britain
Dominions
Overseas Settlement Committee
Imperial Conference
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Imperial Conference Committees
Prairie provinces unite to aid farmers through boards
All three prairie provinces prepare support structures for farmers facing low grain and livestock prices. Saskatchewan maintains a debt-adjustment bureau, Manitoba creates a parallel credit relief board, and Alberta announces the formation of its agricultural development board to aid needy farmers and ensure fair credit distribution.
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Winnipeg
Man
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Alberta
Agricultural Development Board
Sir Arthur Currie to Visit British India
Ottawa reports General Sir Arthur Currie commander in chief of Canadian forces has accepted a government invitation to represent Canada at the inauguration of New Delhi as capital of British India and the opening of the new government buildings.
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Ottawa
Ont
Sir Arthur Currie
Canada
New Delhi
British India
Currie
Grace Connors offers Million-Dollar Long Island house for cancer research
Mrs Grace I Connors widow of William J Connors Sr Buffalo NY publisher financier and political leader offers to turn her $1 000 000 Long Island mansion into a world class cancer research institute. She made the offer to Doctors Walter B Coffey and John Humber of San Francisco noted for cancer research discoveries.
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New York
Grace I. Connors
William J. Connors
Buffalo, N.Y
Long Island
Walter B. Coffey
John Humber
San Francisco
Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci In Auto Crash Near Birmingham
Madame Amelita Galli Curci and her husband Homer Samuels escaped serious injury when their car overturned near Birmingham while en route to Kings Norton. The chauffeur swerved to avoid a collision with another vehicle, losing control of the auto.
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Birmingham
Eng
Mme
Amelita Galli-Curci
Here
Homer Samuels
Kings Norton
Palestine Jews reject British policy council participation
The National Council of Palestine Jews, after an eight hour meeting, unanimously decided to reject the British policy statement in Palestine and decline to take part in the proposed legislative council.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
National Council of Palestine Jews
Legislative Council
Lake Winnipeg Tragedy Drowns Four on Burning Tug Magnus
Fire on the tug Magnus off Gimli trapped four fishermen. Captain William Bijarnson and Engineer Joe Bell perished. Martin Johnson and Ole Kardell were rescued by the Goldfield. The blaze and explosion sank Magnus, owned by Armstrong Giaii Fisheries, with two bodies still missing.
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Winnipeg
Magnus
Lake
Gimli
William Bijarnson
Joe Bell
Goldfield
Martin Johnson
Ole Kardell
Bjarnson
Bell
Armstrong Giaii Fisheries Company
Lake Winnipeg
Embargo on War Munitions to Brazil Proclaimed
President Hoo ver issued a proclamation embargoing shipments of munitions of war to Brazil except for the Federal Government at Rio De Janeiro. The move follows a request from Brazilian ambassador S. Gurgel do Amaral and signals U. S. opposition to the rebels. No shipments to rebels have been reported, and Rio De Janeiro may view the uprising as a serious threat to the Federal Government.
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Washington, D.C
Hoover
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
S. Gurgel Do Omeral
United States
State Department
Stimson
Ottawa Automobiles Fall To New Low In September
Canadian car production dropped to 7,957 units in September the lowest for the year. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics report shows a 19 percent decline from August and a 42 percent drop from September 1929. Through nine months, output reached 138,622 cars, down 41 percent from the prior year.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Early Winter Strands RAF Flights at Ladder Lake
Surprise October blizzard traps four flying boats at Ladder Lake air base. RCAF crews and mechanics slog waist-deep in ice water to free the big Vickers Vancouver 14A and the other craft. Planes usually go to Winnipeg for winter but will be beached until spring.
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Northern Air Base
Prince Albert
Sask
R.C.A.F
Ladder Lake Air Base
Vickers-Vancouver
Winnipeg
Vancouver veteran saddiemaker turns 110 amid memories
Vancouver BC friends celebrate Dad Quick the citys senior saddiemaker who has reached his 110th birthday recalling a life since leaving Taunton Somerset England and witnessing many historical events across decades.
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Vancouver
B.C
Edmonton Allows Longer Term For Lieutenant Governor
Hon. Dr. William Egbert will serve as lieutenant governor of Alberta until April 1, 1931. Ottawa notified that his five year term, expiring in October, has been extended. He agreed to stay in office due to Premier Bennett being away in England.
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Edmonton
Alberta
William Egbert
Ottawa
Bennett
England
Return Flight Delayed for Capt. Boyd and Conner
Captain J. Errol Boyd and Lieutenant Harry P. Connor have postponed their Atlantic crossing until next spring. They will own the monoplane Columbia after Sherwin Cottingham of Montreal bought it from Charlie Levine and gifted it to the pilots on condition they do not attempt the flight this year. The aviators plan to sail to Canada on October 21 and return to England in the spring.
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London
England
J. Errol Boyd
Harry P. Connor
Atlantic
Harbor Grace
Mid
Columbia
North Atlantic
Sherwin Cottingham
Montreal
Charlies A. Levine
Boyd
Conner
Canada
Provinces in Canada Push for Constitutional Consultation
London reports Canada insists on provincial consent before amending the British North America Act. Premier Ferguson and Taschereau back provincial rights, with Maurice Dupre supporting consultation, possibly via interprovincial conference, as the Imperial Conference committee weighs Dominion laws conflicts. The method of consultation is undecided but principle outweighs the immediate issue.
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London
England
Imperial Conference Committee
Lord Sankey
Canada
Maurice Dupre
Ferguson
Taschereau
Ontario
Quebec
Airship Workers at Cardington Face Uncertain Future
About 800 Royal Airship Works workers and families in Cardington England await the air ministry inquiry into the R-101 disaster. Officials met secretly and reportedly consider a 20 percent labor cut, fueling anxiety as criticism grows over delays in the official investigation.
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Cardington
England
Royal Airship Works
Air Ministry
Customary Two Minutes Silence Observed on Armistice Day
Ottawa announces a nation wide observance of Armistice Day with a two minutes silence at 11 a.m. on Tuesday November 11 1930. The Prime Minister’s office issues the royal sanctioned invitation for Canadians to join in the silence.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Eclipse Captured On San Ninafou Island
Weeks of patient waiting on the South Pacific isle paid off October 21 as 41 photographs recorded a total solar eclipse.
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Ninafou Island
South Pacific
Shamrock Reaches Home After Crossing Atlantic Storms
The Shamrock V narrowly returned to Southampton Eny after a rough Atlantic crossing. Severe seas battered the yacht washing away its steering wheel twenty four hours from Bristol Rhode Island. Captain William Greenock said the voyage was all but a merciless weather grind and that the crew remained well. The vessel will head to a shipyard for winter work.
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Southampton
Eny
Atlantic
Bristol
Rhode Island
William Greenock
America
Railroad unions push six hour day plan across North America
In Cleveland officials report seven railroad labor unions in Canada and the United States have adopted leadership of the drive for a six hour work day with no pay cut. They estimate 50,000 jobs could be created in railroad industries by the change and a detailed campaign will be mapped at a Chicago meeting of 700 union representatives on November 12.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Canada
United States
Chicago
Canada 10 Be Represented at Chicago Show
Canada is set to make a strong showing at the International Grain and Hay Show in Chicago from November 29 to December 6. Entries from far reaches, including New South Wales, arrive as Saskatchewan’s James A. Paur wins first in rye and wheat classes.
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Chicago
Ills
Canada
New South Wales
Saskatchewan
James A. Paur
Langham
Paur
George Avery
Kelso, Sask
W. G. Gibson
Ladner, B.C
William Darnbrough
Laura, Sask
Joseph H. B. Smith
Wolf Creek
Alberta
S. Lacombe
Birtle
Manitoba
Eddie J. Shank
Athabaska
G. I. Christie
Ontario Agricultural College
Guelph
Ont
Canadian Co-Operative Wheat Producers, Limited
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway
Québec
Ontario
British Columbia
Calgary Board of Trade
B. H. Heide
North America
New Zealand butter subject to dump duty in Canada
Vancouver report notes a 40 cent dump duty per 46 pound box on 38 000 boxes of New Zealand butter aboard the Niagara arriving October 11. The duty adds roughly 16 000 to the regular tariff and requires future reports of New Zealand fair market price to prevent transit fluctuations.
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Vancouver
B.C
New Zealand
Niagara
E. B. Ryckman
National Revenue
Customs Department
Grain grading high northern wheat in Prince Albert
Grain grading in Prince Albert Saskatchewan shows high quality after rains with loads marketed at the Pool elevator grading mostly No 2 Northern and No 3 with minimal sprouting. Officials estimate the average at No 3 and expect this to hold after threshing resumes. Garnet wheat also grades No 2 Northern on well stocked crops and No 2 is expected overall.
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Prince Albert
Sask
English firm to reopen Ottawa textile mill for 360 workers
An English company, owner of a Carlton Place plant, plans to reopen a closed Ottawa mill shortly and hire 360 workers. They seek admission of about 25 skilled textile workers from the home plant to manufacture woollen coatings and other cloth not previously produced in Canada.
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Ottawa
Canada
Carlton Place
Nurses Save Life After Car Crash In Illinois
In Belleville nurses at St. Elizabeth Hospital held two hour relays with a finger pressed on Josephine Jarvis as a deep facial and jugular injury from a windshield break during a collision were treated. The 9 year old from Lebanon, Illinois survived after the serious wounds were controlled.
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Belleville
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Josephine Jarvis
Lebranon
Jarvis
Threshing Resumes Across Alberta Under Sunlit Promise
In Edmonton Alberta officials report threshing is resuming in several localities as weather permits. Minister of Agriculture Hon George Headley notes that another strong crop comeback depends on continued sunshine and favorable conditions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
George Headley
Bank Honored Old Notes Scarboro Ontario Deposit
A local bank in Scarboro Ontario honored a roll of old defunct banknotes including Ontario Sterling Farmers Home and Merchants Bank brands. The notes will be honored by the institution.
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Scarboro
Ont
Ontario, Sterling, Farmers, Home and Merchants Bank
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Buffalo
Galli
Curci
Ww. N. U
Errol Boyd
Toronto Flier
Harry Connor
Cornwall
Croydon
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
R. B. Bennett
Foreign Office
Shamrock
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