Clarke Township Donnybrook Fair Promises War Charity Drive
A Clarke Township plan calls for a June 18 1941 Donnybrook Fair at Clarke Agricultural Park Orono to raise funds for the British War Victims Fund. The event uses a township wide canvass with divisions and committees to collect items for sale and auction.
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Clarke Township
Donnybrook
British Isles
Evening Telegram
Clarke Agricultural Park
Orono
Central Committee
Elimination results in solo class at musical festival
The Orono Continuation School hosted elimination results Wednesday night with many contestants. Winners include Junior Boys' Solo Roland Cames Bethesda Everett Wood Keith Wood Antiioch Earl Brown Shaw's David Fee Leskard Don White Orono. Junior Girls' Solo Joyce Cox Shaw's Marie Allan Lockhart's Given. Senior Boys' Solo Bill Dudley Tyrone Douglas Burdett Providence Ray Mundy Maple Grove Norman Andrew Cowansville Grant Brooks Providence Ross Metcalfe Base Line. Senior Girls' Solo June Bowditch Enterprise Norma Ransberry Enterprise Marilyn Runnalls Ebenezer Florence Runnalls Bethesda Gwen Gibson Lockhart's Gwen Brooks Providence Lorraine Whyte Maple Grove. Judge was Mr Geen of Oshawa.
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Orono
Roland Cames
Bethesda
Everett Wood
Keith Wood
Antiioch
Earl Brown
Shaw’s
David Fee
Leskard
Don White
Joyce Cox
Marie Allan
Lockhart’s
Given. Chatterton
Clarke Union
Hielen
Ann Getlick
Cowanville
Aileen Allen
Bill Dudley
Tyrone
Douglas Burdett
Providence
Ray Mundy
Maple Grove
Norman Andrew
Cowansville
Grant Brooks
Ross Metcalfe
Base Line
June Bowditch
Enterprise
Norma Ransberry
Marilyn Runnalls
Ebenezer
Florence Runnalls
Gwen Gibson
Gwen Brooks
Lorraine Whyte
Mr. Geen
Oshawa
Drive For Recruits to Be Made For Active Army
Ottawa forecasts a May to June recruitment drive to raise 20 000 to 25 000 men for all active units in Canada. Minister J L Ralston states the aim covers replacements and wastage overseas, based on future discharges and battle casualty allowances. Overseas reinforcements are being built, with some used for new units, and Canada will receive returning personnel while officers and men gain overseas experience.
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Ottawa
Canadia
J. L. Ralston
National Defence
Canada
Cowan Family Welcomes Baby Son in Toronto Hospital
On May 6 1941 at the Private Patients Pavilion Toronto General Hospital a son was born to Mr and Mrs R Allison Cowan nee Helen Grise. The birth adds a new member to the Cowan household.
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Cowian
Toronto General Hospital
R. Allison Cowan
Helen Grise
Prize Lists Now Out For Canadian National Exhibition
The 1941 prize list for the Canadian National Exhibition highlights women’s pivotal role in national life. Six large workrooms in the Women’s Buildings will operate fourteen days with Army Navy Air Force war work and daily War Emergency Class demonstrations. A quilts for air raid shelters contest and cooking school on Canadian foods feature prominently alongside traditional hand crafts and new dancing and Ontario choir programs. Women’s contributions are showcased to demonstrate what Canadians can accomplish.
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Canada
Army
Navy
Air Force
Ontario
Red Cross Meeting in Orange Lodge Room
The Orange Red Cross Society held its regular monthly meeting in the Orange Lodge room last Thursday evening. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and the treasurer reported. A ten cent tea is planned for Thursday May 28 with all invited. A unit was organized in Leskard with Mrs Lorne Robbins in charge. Regular monthly dances will begin Friday May 30.
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Orone Red Cross Society
Orange Lodge
Armstrong
Leskard
Lorne Robbins
Alltend
Midland Regiment Moves East After Ottawa Sendoff
The Midland Regiment left Ottawa on Monday evening April 30 after a brief stay. Residents saw the boys off at the station and praised the Midlands as the best regiment stationed there. The trout season opens with plenty of fish but few large catches.
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Midland
Ottawa
East
Midlands
Canada’s War Effort Budget Highlights and War Measures
A Canada Home Front review covers J L Isley’s third wartime budget with a 1940–41 deficit of 385 million and 1941–42 projections, major tax increases, and a push to raise 1.5 billion via taxation and borrowing. It notes Hyde Park gains, mass mobilization, overseas recruitment, and the Hamilton National Steel Car plant controller appointment amid industrial tensions.
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House of Commons
J. L. Isley
Britain
Canada
United States
Dominion
Hyde Park
North America
Great Britain
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
England
Special Products Board
Department of Agriculture
Ministry of Food
Montreal
E. J. Bruning
Munitions and Supply Department
Hamilton
National Steel Car Corporation
Bruning
Clarke Township Farmer Dies In Hay Mow After Shooting
Kenneth Workman of Clarke Township was found fatally shot in a hay mow on his farm with a .22 rifle bought the day before. The Provincial Police attended. authorities consider war worries a possible motive and an inquest is not expected.
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Clarke Township
Kenneth Workman
Lot
Concession 8
Percy Burley
Kendal
Workman Farm
Kenneth
Orono
Ethiopian Emperor Back in Addis Ababa After Victory
Hailie Selassie returns to Addis Ababa as Ethiopians celebrate victory over the Italians. Italians in the city shelter indoors while natives gather for a grand celebration marking the triumph.
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Hailie Selassie
Ethiopia
Aldidis Ababa
Canadians Missing After Torpedoed Ship Sinks En Route Home
One ship carrying 122 Canadians and a mixed complement of military personnel was torpedoed and sunk while en route to England. The loss includes personnel from various branches and services.
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England
Oddfellows Mark 122nd Anniversary at St Saviour’s
Some eighty Oddfellows paraded to St Saviour's church in Orono on the anniversary of the order's founding on the continent. Marshall W J Riddell led the event with Orono Citizens' Band providing music. Attendees came from Bowmanville Port Hope Cobourg Millbrook and Pontypool. Reverend D R Dewdney spoke on Love and fellowship. Mrs Phasey sang a solo. After church members gathered in the Lodge room for treats and short addresses by lodge representatives.
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St. Saviour’s Church
Orono
Order
W. J. Riddell
Bowmanville
Port Hope
Cobourg
Millbrook
Pontypool
D. R Dewdney
Doris Ross Wins Double Indemnity Claim in Fire Death
Mrs Doris J Ross of Bowmanville won a Supreme Court judgment against Ex celestial Life Insurance Co for 10150 under a double indemnity policy on her husband C T Ross who died in a Bowmanville home fire on March 24 1940. Justice Urquhart ruled suffocation from fire and shock as the death cause within the policy terms.
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Doris J. Ross
Bowmanville
Excelsior Life Insurance ‘Company
Justice Urquhart
Supreme Court
Coboung
Ross
C. T. Ross
Royal Theattre
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Midland Regiment
Council
Clarke ‘Township
E. A. Summers
W. A. Reid
S. W. Smith
C. F. Awde
Township of
Clarke
Oromio Weekly Times
K. W. Dugan
Joseph J. Mellor
E. J. Randall
S. R Hart
Dean’s Bakery
Wm. Kk. Davey
B.O.H
Riolph
E. L. Mac-Nachtan
DC. G. Armstrong
H G. MacDonald
Crono
Workman’s Farm
Oddfellows
Doris Ross
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