Farm legislation and Labour Code debates in Ottawa
Russell C. Honey reports Parliament discusses Farm Improvement Act amendments and Crop Insurance Act changes to attract provincial participation. Allan MacEachen introduces a federal labour code with a 1.25 dollar minimum wage, eight hour day, two weeks paid holidays, and seven paid holidays, effective January 1 1965. A water tank explosion at Kumrite Apartments harms two floors and damages building components.
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House of Commons
Allan MacEachen
Canada
Honey Objects To Closing Dayliner Service
Durham M P Russell C Honey files formal objection with the Board of Transport Commissioners Canada to CPR Dayliner abandonment between Toronto and Peterboro. He urges continued service until a public hearing allows all parties to be heard.
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R. R. Honey
Ottawa
Durham M. P
Russell C. Honey
Board of Transport Commissioners For Canada
C.P.R
Toronto
Peterborough
Honey
Board of Transport Commissioners
Queen Opens Talk on Canadian Confederation in Quebec
Queen Elizabeth thanked Prime Minister Jean Lesage for the invitation to Quebec and spoke mainly in French to 240 lawmakers. She urged fraternal dialogue among compatriots to solve Confederation issues and argued for clear, humane discussion to unite people.
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Elizabeth
Jean Lesage
Quebec
Commonwealth
Red and Gold Legislative Council
Boom ends for Whitby saddle hardware firm
A Whitby plant once thriving on Brock Street South, Whitby Malleable Iron and Brass, ends 76 years of operation. Founded in 1888 by Samuel Trees and G W Martin, the saddlery hardware maker closes as progress shifts to motorized goods, ending a long era after a peak of 112 workers in 1906.
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Whitby
Brock Street
Samuel Trees
G. W. Martin
Toronto
O’donavan Carriage Company
Local Residents Spend Holiday Weekend Visiting Family
Local notes list many families visiting relatives across Ontario during the holiday weekend. Mentions include Mr. and Mrs. Jim Major in Marmora, Roy Barraball in Bowmanville, Audrey Billings in Oshawa, and visits by Ewing in Toronto, with hospital stays for Miss Morrison and other travels among Ontario towns.
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Jim Major
Marilyn
Sue Major
Ottawa
Emma Lunn
Marmora
Roy Barraball
Bowmanville Memorial Hospital
N. F. Porter
Audrey Billings
Jim Oliver
Bobcaygeon
Ewing
Toronto
Chas. Taylor
Ross
Orono United Church
Owen Fagan
Markham
O. Cooper
Wood
Morrisburg
W. E. Armstrong
C. A. Cumming
Oshawa
Carl Billings
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Durham
James E. Richards
St. Catharines
E. S. Hicks
T. W. Cawker
John Leishman
Diane Tamblyn
M. J. Tamblyn
Orono
Leskard
Nicholson
Kumrite
Durham County
Cavan
Pontypool
Manvers Sttion
Burketon
Miss A. Morrison
George Mitchell
Burns Kitmer
Albert Mitchell
W. C. H. Mitchell
Norman Rickaby
Belleville
Jim Rickaby
Ross Tamblyn
Western University
Tamblyn
Leslie Hopper
McMaster University
Hamilton
Bud Barnett
Kingston
Ed Graham
Terry
United Church
Orono Pastoral
B. E. Long
Kirby
John Romeril
The
Courtice Pastoral Charge
Candy
England
Newlands - Harding
Althe
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