Successors to Klondikers open frontiers in Northwest
A series on Canada’s northwest frontier profiles Stan Gorny and Pete Hamlin guiding a Yukon trek to Telegraph Creek and Cassiar asbestos fields. Prospectors push into remote regions, uncover asbestos near Cassiar, and establish frontier communities while life centers on the Alaska Highway corridor from Dawson Creek to Haines Junction.
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Klondikers
Northwest
Canada
Peace River
Alaska Highway
Dawson Creek
B.C
Haines Junction
Yukon
Jim Bowes
Stan Gorny
Watson Lake
Pete Hamlin
Stan
Pete
Pacific
Gorny
Telegraph Creek
British Columbia
Klondike
Fall rye varieties licensed for prairie Canada.
The Petkus and Sangaste fall rye varieties were licensed for sale in Canada early in 1957, joining Dakold and Antelope as the only prairie suitable varieties. Sangaste and Petkus differ in origin, maturity, and winter hardiness, with limitations for prairie adaptation. Tetra Petkus is unsuitable for the prairie region due to severe winter-kill.
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Canada
Prairie Provinces
Estonia
New Leafy Spurge Control Plans Considered in Dufferin
At a meeting in Carman Manitoba last Friday municipal council and needs commission chairman A. Craig decided Aldacide will not be used in future Leafy Spurge control. They agreed one or both of two new chemicals may be used if the program continues, deemed adequate in similar soil districts.
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Dufferin
Municipal Council
Needs Commission
A. Craig
Craig
Carman, Man
North frontier springtime housed in oil gas hopes and dreams
Rain cooled ports as tug skippers and three scows rode Nelson river. In Alaska highway Yukon oil bets and a 30 million dollar Peace River gas complex rise beside a 150 million dollar pipeline. A 23 year old Eastern heir dreams north as frontier springtime ends with a grim reminder that accidents kill more children than disease.
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Nelson River
Aklavik
Joe Tsukamoto
Haines Junction
Whitehorse
Rain
Yukon
Peace River
Alaska Highway
Vancouver
U.S. Pacific Northwest
Peel Plateau
Arctic Circle
Manitoba origins commemorated with plaque at The Narrows
Premier Douglas Campbell unveiled a Manitoba name plaque at The Narrows Lake Manitoba during a Sunday ceremony marking both the origin tale and the opening of The Narrows ferry. The Historic Sites Advisory Board prepared the plaque tracing Manitobas name to the Strait of the Spirit Manito wapow.
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Manitoba
Lake Manitoba
Douglas Campbell
Narrows
Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba
G. M. Brownell
University of Manitoba
Geology
the Narrows
Manito
Advisory” Board
Prairie
Smile of the Week Woman Reworks Monument Inscription
A young widow erected a costly monument for her late husband with the line My grief is so great that I cannot bear It. About a year later she remarried and altered the inscription to read My grief is so great that I cannot bear it alone at a small cost.
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Widcw
Celebrations at Binscaith Include Military Band and Dancers
The Express notes Manitobans enjoyed colorful festivities featuring a 50 piece military band pipers Highland dancers a marine cavalcade and an old time jigging contest during the August celebrations at Binscaith Manitoba.
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Manitobbans
the Express
Binscaith
Man
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Canadian Northwest
Alaska
Northlands
Edmonton
Rupert
Mac
McKenzie
Ontario
Cassiar
Bob Kirk
Cassiar Asbestos Corporation
Lower Post
Glen Gould
Nelson
Gould
Quartzrock Creek
Diana
Glenda
Fort Nelson
Mile 300
Walter Johnson
North America
MOONE
Lacombe Globe
Alta
Lacombe
Popow
Steve Kovac
George Harris
Lowell Shoup
Jim Duffy
Ralph Bos
Advance Studios
Cunard’s
Sylvania
Carinthia
Ivernia
Saxonia
Hampton
Cunard
Cocunard
Bank of Toronto Ridg
Portage Avenue
Winnipeg
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