Model ships mark important events in Canadian history
Montreal's Chateau de Ramezay hosts a marine exhibition and a tribute to its Tth anniversary. The display features ships from canoes carved from a single tree trunk to Trafalgar era models and modern Canadian warships. Also shown are birchbark canoes and a Royal Navy Virginie model. The exhibit will shift this summer to land transportation models and railway coaches.
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Montreal
Chateau de Ramezay
Emerilion
Jacques Cartier
T R McLagan
Progress
Antiquarian and Numismaticiety of
Louis Carrier
Trafalgar
Pierre Ste Marie
Longueuil
Chateau
Joe Beef
Ste Marie
Virginie
George Macrae
Royal Navy
Only Six Signatures Attributed To Shakespeare Survive
Scholarship notes only six Shakespeare signatures remain with certainty. In addition two more words are confirmed as in his handwriting and about 250 additional words may be in the bard’s hand. The attribution remains a scholarly question.
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Shakespeare
Drafting Careers Promoted by Home Study Diploma
Classified notice promotes a home study diploma from Primary School of Drafting in Toronto Ontario. Claims draftsmen are in demand with well paid secure jobs. Offers free folder and low fees through mail.
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Primary School of Drafting
Dept
Station Q
Toronto
Ontario
Bulb Planting Time Advised By Beaverlodge Experts
Experts at Beaverlodge Experimental Farm urge planting bulbs from August to early October to yield beauty in spring and summer. They highlight blue squills, yellow fritillaries, tulips, and various lilies, and describe a trenching method to improve soil drainage in Peace River conditions. A guide circular on herbaceous perennials is available from the farm.
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Beaverlodge
Peace River
Peace River Country
Seven-Foot Turtle Battles Fisherman Off Halifax
In Halifax, fisherman Howard Smith nearly lost a one meter seven foot aero turtle after an hour long fight harpooned off Half ax. Fisheries officials recalled a much larger tropical turtle up to 1,400 pounds landed in nearby Cape Breton waters days earlier amid questions about warming Atlantic currents drawing tropical species north.
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Halifax
Halfax
Howard Smith
Sambro
Cape Breton
Atlantic
Cheesebread Dough From Frugal Kitchen Recipe
A vintage kitchen instruction details making cheese bread dough with ingredients like sugar yeast and flour. It covers mixing lukewarm milk water and yeast, letting it proof, then stirring in cooled milk and cheese. The method emphasizes rising until doubled and folding in cheese and more flour.
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Fleischmann
Saskatchewan approves three more frozen food locker plants
Regina reports the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture has licensed three additional locker plants in Mankota Hodgeville and Harris bringing total licensed plants to 220 under The Frozen Food Lockers Act since 1946. About 75 000 renters are served and 21 million pounds stored in 1954. Applications go to the minister then to the licensing board for final approval.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Mankota
Hodgeville
Harris
Department of Agriculture
Swainson
Minister of Agriculture
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep themed quilt pattern
Pattern 7264 offers embroidery transfers diagrams and directions for a 36 by 54 inch slumber quilt featuring cute figures. Send 25 cents to Department PPL Household Arts Toronto to obtain the pattern and plain writing of name address and pattern number. Also order the 1955 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue for knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and novelty ties.
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P.P.L
Household Arts Department
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Canadian mills ponder dropping 196 pound flour barrel
Rumors say major Canadian flour mills may adopt decimal packing by ending the 196 pound barrel. Quotations would shift from fractions like 98 and 49 pounds to 100 and 50 pound lots. If large mills lead, widespread acceptance in Canada seems likely.
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U.S.A
Canada
Rare ice-age horse unearthed in Fort Qu'Appelle gravel pit
Regina reports the discovery of bones from a rare ice-age pony-sized horse in a Fort Qu'Appelle gravel pit by Bernard De Vries. Museum paleontologist Bruce MacCorquodale notes three individuals. bones include a Woolly Mammoth tooth and tusk fragment, with Musk Ox skull fragment found nearby. Saskatchewan's Museum of Natural History seeks further fossil records and advises careful handling and reporting of finds.
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Fort Qu’Appelle
Regina
North American
Bernard de Vries
Fort Qu'Appelle
Sask
Saskatoon
Bruce McCorquodale
Museum of Natural History
North America
Asia
Siberia
Alaska
United States
Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan
Canada Declares Vast Crown Land Holdings
A government document notes over one million square miles of crown land exist in Canada. The statement highlights extensive public land ownership and potential public use.
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Canada
Clean Jokes and Misplaced Proverbs in a Humorous Parade
A collection of light humor with quick exchanges about Navy cleanliness, proverbs, wedged by mountain jokes and a weary customer craving exact orders. It pivots on misread sayings and homesick longing, ending with a child’s cautious take on heaven.
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Gilbert Grandval
France
Morocco
Paris
North Africa
Edgar Faure
Grandval
Navy
Jim
Lo Shore
Johnny
Ingersoll Baby Roll
of the
Golden West
Ingersoll Cheese CO. Ltd
Ingersoll
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