Canada Trades World Wide As Domestic Preference Fades
The Ottawa Journal notes Canada’s trade grows with foreign markets while Britain’s share shrinks. From April to August 1946 Canada imported 98 090 000 more goods abroad, while Britain's exports to Canada decline. Germany and other nations rise as Canada becomes more cosmopolitan, with continued shifts in coal, textiles, and agricultural trade and growing foreign purchases overall.
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Canada
Cenada
Britain
Uncle Ham
Co Wlus
Staten
Europe
Asia
Canaie
States
Roca
Germany
Waly
Japan
Courze
Ching
Uruguay
Crocho Siovakia
Yeylow
Reiisy
Twrithy Steel
Masa American
Cannus
Seven Seas
Joseph Chamberlain
Mr. Anieres
Mitchell’s Excalsior potato registered as new variety
Jamen C. Mitchell of Dahinda Saskatchewan announced the release of Mitchell’s Excalsior, a potato resembling the Irish Cobbler but with fewer deep-set eyes and lighter skin. After 16 years of selection and testing, Saskatchewan Seed Growers Association registered it as a new variety.
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Mitchell
Saskatchewan Seed Growers’ Association
Jewish Farmers in Saskatchewan Leading World
Louly Rosenberg of the Jewish Colonization Association reports Saskatchewan has the highest proportion of Jewish farmers globally. Of 5400 Jews, about 1500 are farm settlers, with eight of fourteen Canadian Jewish Farm Colonies in the province. In 1926 they marketed about 500000 bushels of wheat.
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Saskatchewan
Louly Rosenberg
Jewish Colonization Association
Canada
Mission City poultry pen wins prize with nine birds
The 2 556 weigh-in pen weighing 390 pounds was the winning entry in a local exhibition judged by Superintendent W A Hicks of the Ageariz Experimental Farm. The pen's nine and a half times weight in birds and its original twelve Leghorns remained unchanged, with each member qualifying for registration. Rev C McDiarmid highlighted the club's growth and presented Frank W Appleby with a British Columbia Poultry Association diploma.
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W. A. Hicks
Ageariz
Frank W. Appleby
Mission City
H.C
Mr. Hicks
Indy
Pep
Rev. C. McDiarmid
Mission Poultry Assocation
Aflision City
Appleby
British Columbia Poultry Association
McDiarmid
Skim milk shown to boost laying hen productivity at Nappan farm
A four year test at Nappan Nova Scotia Experimental Farm finds skim milk provides high feeding value for laying hens. Compared with beef scrap feed the skim milk group produced more eggs and lower feed costs per hen despite similar water access.
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Nappan
N.S
Charmingly simple day dress pattern for Misses No.1473
The pattern features a moviro or satin daytime frock with a surplice front and pleated back, shoulder tucks, round collar, long sleeves, and a contrasting ribbon bow. Sizes 16 18 and 20 years. yardage given for size 18. pattern book advance showcasing home dressmaker styles.
Population Growth and Shifting World Demographics
Harvard professor Edward Murray East estimates a global daily net population gain of 50,000 from 150,000 births and 100,000 deaths. He notes world population at about 1.85 billion, doubling since the 1800s, with the United States forecast to reach 269 million this century. East discusses carrying capacity, redistribution, and growth in Canada, where death and birth rates sit at 11.8 and 26.7 per thousand, respectively, amid rising population pressures.
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Edward Murray East
Harvard University
United States
China
India
Professor East
Canada
America
Dominion
East
Wild Ducks Sent from Manitoba to Lord Byng Estate
Twenty two wild ducks from Manitoba marshes are shipped to Thorpe Hall Essex England as a gift from the provincial government to former governor general Lord Byng. The birds were caught young last spring and raised in Againsboine Park under George Champion. They depart Saturday night for St John. Free Press reports a separate note on a communist bombing attempt at a Paris theatre and the saying money talks but lacks a proper financial statement.
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Manitoba
England
Lord Byng of Vimy
Thorpe Hall
Essex
Quebec 1759: Wolfe and Montcalm Memorial Poem
A commemorative poem recalls the 1759 Quebec campaign. It honors generals Wolfe and Montcalm, their sacrifices, and shared national unity. The verse frames their deaths on the battlefield as a singular, reverent moment for France and Britain in a lasting imperial memory.
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Wolfe
Montcalm
France
Wool and wool quality in Saskatchewan and Hudson Bay prospects
Articles discuss wool production and ewe flock management to improve fleece quality, emphasizing careful selection of breeding stock and ram sires. The piece notes government import of flag-wooled rams from the United States and outlines broader northern development, including mining, fisheries, and power projects around The Pas and Fort Churchill with prospects for railway expansion and electrification.
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Fresco
W. H. J. Tisdale
Candian Co-operative Wool Growers
Saskatchewan
United States
Labrador
Brith Columbia
A. Larose
Pas
Bracken
Saya
Manitoba Free Preas
Larose
Bay
Fort Churchill
Hudson's Bay Company
Mikleborg
Fort
London
Eng
Northland
John Prackon
Pag
Flin Man
Mandy
Fiin Flon
Sherritt-Madole
Cold Lake
Larosé
Fieara
Grand Rapids
Futus
Gypsumville
Neleon
Hudson Bay
Lynx Falls
Freezing Milk Harms Fat and Digestibility
The article explains that freezing partially churns cream, alters casein, and breaks fat emulsions, producing flaky milk and hard-to-digest milk unsafe for infants. It argues dairymen should prevent freezing to boost consumer confidence, demand, and prices.
Immigration to Canada rises in October 1926
Immigration for October 1926 totalled 10 613, an increase of 20 percent from October 1925. The month’s origin mix included 3 654 British, 1 759 from the United States, and 4 560 from other countries. Ten months total reached 122 648, up 63 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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Canada
Department of Immigration and Colonization
United States
Edmonton Seeks Site for Fruit Canning Branch
Representatives of a New Western fruit canning concern look for a three storey Edmonton branch factory measuring 60 by 175 feet driven by abundant local farm output. Esthonian production totaled over 208 million marched in the past year.
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Edmonton
Future of Canada in the British Commonwealth
Hon Newton Rowell KC told the Canadian Club in Vancouver that Canada’s future lies within the commonwealth of nations. He praised the Imperial Conference for unanimity and equal status for self governing Dominions, stressing unity and strength of the whole over subordination to Britain. He argued Canadians of British and French origin will not accept subordination.
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Canada
Newton Weasley Rowall
K.C
Vancouver
Commonwealth of Nations
Rowell
Mr. Rowell
Hops in England Through Legal Bans to Common Use
Hops were introduced from Flanders to England and were forbidden in beer by Henry VII. In 1649 London petitioned Parliament that the weed would spoil drink and endanger lives, yet by Elizabeth I’s era hops had become common despite earlier bans.
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England
Flanders
Henry VII
London
Elizabeth
Ancient Spring Still Flowing at Wady Ain Guder
A battered historic note describes a spring in Wady Ain Guder that continues to gush from a rock wall, once part of Moses striking water from the rock. The sight harks to the twelve springs leading toward Canaan.
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Wady Ain Guderat
Canaan
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Lord Darling
Tegal Wit
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