Wartime Price War Declared on Home Front in Canada
Canada declares a home-front war against inflation as Wartime Prices and Trade Board imposes price ceilings from Dec 1 1941. General Staff led by Donald Gordon mobilizes thirteen regional leaders to enforce ceilings and curb rising costs across provinces.
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Prices and ‘Trade Board
Weekly
Press of Canada
Bruce IM. Pearce
Simcoe Reformer
Canada
Hitler
Dominion
Prices and Trade Board
Ottawa
Army
Donald Gordon
Butter Production Up For Durham County
Butter production for Durham County Creamery in November 1941 reached 64,989 pounds, up from 58,649 pounds a year earlier. For the eleven months ending November, 1941, Ontario creamery butter totaled 81,729,918 pounds, down from 82,590,006 pounds in 1940.
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Durham County
Ontario
Gasoline Rationing Plans Announced For Canada
Ottawa announces wartime gasoline rationing beginning April 1 to support armed forces and war industries. Munitions Minister C D Howe says controls will be flexible yet strict, with non essential private car use curtailed and vehicle registrations, licenses, and ration coupons required. Licenses non transferable and issued only for 1942 provincial motor vehicle licensed vehicles. A $1 registration fee per vehicle.
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Ottawa
Canada
C. D. Howe
Howe
Durham Lodge Officers Elected for 1942
At the last regular meeting of Durham Lodge A F and A M New Castle the 1942 officers were elected WiM Donald E Gibson IPM Laurence Gaines S W Harold Gibson J W George A Walton Chaplain T F Branton Treasurer J E W Philp Secretary J W Bradley D of C C M Jones S D Irwin Colwill JDA Wilbur Graham J G Russell Osborne SS Clarence J Allin JSW J Rowland Tyler T W Jackson The five standing committees.
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Durham Lodge
A.F
A.M
Newcastle
Wim
Donald E. Gibson
I.P.M
Laurence Gaines
S.W
Harold Gibson
J.W
George A. Walton
T. F. Branton
J. E
Sleighriding Banned on Cobb Hill in Orono
Notices will be posted forbidding sleighriding skiing and tobogganing on Cobb Hill in Orono after a near accident. A child nearly died when a truck approached the hill and braked hard, sliding across the ice and narrowly avoiding the child.
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Cobb Hill
Orono
Sickness and Relief to be appointed on installation night
A ceremony on December 30 will appoint Sickness and Relief, Finance, Enter tainment, General Purpose and Masonic Education to new posts during installation night.
Canada’s War Effort December 4 11 1941 Review
Weekly home front digest listing wartime measures and events from Dec 4 to 11 1941. It covers war declarations with Japan Finland Romania and others, blackout and radio closures in B C, Hong Kong defense, hazard zones, ship losses including H M C S Windflower, naval ship launches, political calls for total war, industrial mobilization with aircraft output, 1942 manufacturing limits, wage stabilization, magnesium production agreement, a Canadian war loan planned for February, rising national income, turkey price controls, cost of living index rise, pork loaf shipments to the U K, and Louis St Laurent sworn in as Minister of Justice.
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Canada
Ottawa
Japan
Finland
Rumania
Hungary
British Columbia
B.C
Hong Kong
Atlantic
Labrador
Pacific
Alaska
R. B. Hanson
Conservative House
Dominion
Department of Munitions and Supply
Consolidated ‘Mining and Smelting ‘Company of Canada Limited
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Toronto
Bacon Board
United Kingdom
Louis St
Lovekin Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary Surprise
Mr and Mrs F B Lovekin celebrated their 25th anniversary with a surprise party in Orono Town Hall on December 17 drawing about 200 friends. The event featured a Chesterfield set and silver service presentation, a three tier cake, and music by Lawrence Morton with readings, speeches, and flowers from children Helen Turner and Gilbert Hunter.
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F. B. Lovekin
Orono
Wm. Laing
Murray Dunn
Mrs. Lovekin
Helen Turner
Gilbert Hunter
Norman Rickard
Orme Gamsby
T. A. Reid
Dorothy Nichols
Lawrence Morton
Cecil Mercer
M.P. P
W. F. Rickard
M.P
Edmondstone
Bowmanville
J. J. Mellor
Clarke Council Final Meeting Resolves Town Actions
Clarke Council held its final meeting of the year on December 15 with full attendance. It approved placing damages owed to Smith Transportation & Co. on Newtonville sideroad, considered planting an evergreen by the town hall, and tasked the Clerk to discuss the town clock with Police Trustees. By-Law No. 1069 allowed Bell Telephone Co of Canada to run through lines under road supervision. Resolutions included funds for Police Trustees, payments to local officials, and end-of-year road accounts. The meeting set the 1941 township annual meeting in Orono for December 29 at 2 p.m. and approved school and county rates payments.
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Clarke Council
Smith Transportation &Co
Toronto
Newtonville
Clarke
Bell Telephone Co. of Canada
Orono
Place Your Name Now For Spring Farm Work
Clarke Township urges residents to volunteer odd days to help farmers sow and reap this spring. Township clerk Mr Mellor asks interested individuals to contact him to gauge availability. Officials warn labor shortages could threaten crop production and advise early planning for spring offensive.
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Clarke
Mellor
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General Headquarters
General Staff
Gordon
Royal Air Force
Messerschmitt
Germany
France
Holland
Belgium
Durham
H.M.C.S. Windflower
Great Britain
Fred Lovekin
Chesterfield
Lovekin
Lovekins
Clarke Township
Laing
Honsberg
Jim Patterson
A. Reid
Esserceseovsiene
L. J. Patton
J. H. Lowery
R. H. Wood
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