Saskatchewan Northland Fishing Paradise Draws Anglers
La Ronge at Lac La Ronge 170 miles north of Prince Albert serves as a hub for Saskatchewan’s vast northern fishing. Last year 7,200 anglers from Canada and the U S spent about 1 million dollars while fishing from camps and charter planes. Lake trout, pickerel and northern pike are primary catches with sacred Arctic grayling noted as a rising prize. The season runs May to November with peak fishing in late spring and early fall.
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Saskatchewan
Lac la Ronge
A. J. Rudolph
Rice
Minn
RCMP
Stony Rapids
Reindeer Lake
la Ronge
Manitoba
Natural Resources Department
Department of Highways
Prince Albert
Nemeiden Lake
Funny and Otherwise Inconsistent Classroom Humour
A collection of light anecdotes and jokes not bound to a single theme. Pupils, teachers, officials, and performers deliver quips about pig parts, bureaucratic missteps, romantic mishaps, train wrecks, church weddings, Sunday school, and classroom misunderstandings. The humor hinges on wordplay and social mishaps.
Ducks Unlimited and the pattern of constructive aid
The text notes that Ducks Unlimited maintains a longstanding pattern of constructive aid to wildfowl, unchanged since 1938. It highlights establishment, development and maintenance of breeding areas in western Canada as a core activity, rooted in international cooperation and aimed at permanent improvement of a great natural resource.
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Ducks Unlimited
Canada
Poor pickings at Empire Games in Vancouver
Police chiefs across Canada cooperated to deter pickpockets during the British Empire Games in Vancouver. Chief Mulligan said photos of known experts were circulated and Vancouver police rounded up suspects the day before the events. No complaints were reported during the week of the games.
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Vancouver
Canada
Mulligan
The ancient craft of spinning dates back 3500 years before Christ
The record notes that spinning originated at least 3,500 years before the era of Christ, indicating its deep antiquity in early civilizations.
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Christ
Making Concord Grape Jelly From Fresh Juice
Instructions describe testing juice for pectin with hot alcohol, boiling grapes with water, straining to juice, and making jelly. Mix four cups juice with seven cups sugar and liquid pectin, boil to a rolling boil, then seal in glasses with hot paraffin. Yields ten glasses.
Lazy nest builders among Redhead ducks cause nesting errors
Redhead ducks are described as lazy nest builders often abandoning their own nests and laying eggs in other species nests. Rare cases see a Redhead construct an unusually beautiful nest richly decorated with down, regarded as a natural oddity.
Record oil wells drilled in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Surveys show a first half 1954 total of 1 963 344 feet and 393 wells by oil companies in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with 189 new oil wells and 10 gas wells. Saskatchewan led with 293 wells including 149 development and 144 wildcats, Manitoba drilled 100 with 71 new producers. Discovery of light gravity oil occurred in Frobisher area of southeastern Saskatchewan by Canadian Gulf Oil Company and Canadian Devonian Petroleums Ltd.
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Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Frobisher
Canadian Gulf Oil Company
Canadian Devonian Petroleums, Ltd
Newfoundland dogs fade on island as breeders cut pups
On the island of Newfoundland the famous breed is dwindling with only five thoroughbreds left versus 30 in 1949. Breeder Mr. Macpherson, at Westerland farm, and Hugh Baird at Glenmire kennels, keep a few dogs. The story recalls the breed’s water prowess, gentle nature, and notable life-saving deeds.
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ST. John's
Mid
Newfoundland
Westerland
Macpherson
Bob Barrett
Glenmire
Hugh Baird
Mr. Macpherson
Edward Landseer
The
Humane Society
Robert Burns
Asia
Canada Outpaces U.S. in Postwar Growth Says Analysts
Government analysts released a study noting Canada’s postwar physical output rose 34 percent from 1946 to 1953 versus 29 percent in the United States. From mid 1958 to the first quarter this year Canada’s output fell 2 percent, compared with 4 percent in the U.S. Consumer spending and real income also trended stronger in Canada.
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U.S
Financial Post
Canada-Us
Canada
Iron Find in Saskatchewan by Canadian Geologists
Government geologists report a potential iron deposit near the Saskatchewan boundary in the Northwest Territories. The Geological Survey of Canada field party discovered magnetic iron late last month and requires ground exploration to assess commercial viability. Location is 300 miles west of Hudson Bay and 200 air miles northeast of Beaverlodge on Lake Athabasca.
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Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan
Mines Department
Geological Survey of Canada
Hudson Bay
Beaverlodge
Lake Athabasca
Best Lighted Stadium At Clarke Stadium Edmonton
Edmonton Clarke Stadium has erected lighting towers believed to be the highest in Canada boosting field floodlighting. A new grandstand increases seating by 5,500 to a total of 20,667.
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Edmonton
Clarke Stadium
Canada
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Quick Itch Relief
Ad touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a clean stainless antiseptic that penetrates rapidly to ease severe itching. It claims strong penetrating action, relief within a week with use twice daily, safety, and money back guarantee at modern drug stores.
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Canada
Moone
Home Workshop patterns for storage unit and music cabinet
The advertisement promotes Home Workshop patterns 299 for a storage unit, and 300 for a music cabinet, each 35c, with detailed drawings and upholstery steps. It notes ivy design jig saw projects, gifts from fine woods, and an optional Jig Saw Packet for $1.50. Order from Department P.P.L. Vancouver BC.
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Department
P.P.L
Home Workshop
West Fifth Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
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Charlie
Jim
Bride
America
Fellows
England
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
Iplayer
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