Canada's Navy Keeps Sea Lanes Open in World War II
The Royal Canadian Navy expanded from seven destroyers to twelve by 1940, taking part in Atlantic convoy battles and overseas operations. Saguenay Lost 21 dead and 18 wounded after submarine clash. Bras d'Or and Margaree also lost in collisions. Assist included escort, minesweeping, and coastal defense. Ark Royal endured multiple, disputed damages while aiding Atlantic and Pacific theaters.
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Saguenay
Atlantic
Royal Canadian Navy
Britain
Bordeaux
North Atlantic
Fraser
Bras d'Or
Canadian
Canada
Great Britain
Pacific
Assiniboine
West Indies
Italy
Capo Nolt
St. Lawrence
Dunkirk
United States
Carnegie Grants Over $67,000 to Canadian Colleges
Carnegie Corporation of New York approved grants totaling more than $67,000 to 14 Canadian universities and associations. Stephen H. Stackpole announced the awards including $7,500 to the Canadian Association for Adult Education for Manitoba extension services and $2,500 to support the Community Life Training Institute program for French-Canadians.
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Itsitutes of Learning
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Stephen H. Stackpole
Canadian Association For Adult Education
Manitoba
Commmunity Life Training Institute
Ruddy Ducks Population Rises in Prairie Region
The prairie migratory bird officer reports improving conditions over two years with an uptick in ruddy duck numbers. A notable summer 1940 sighting included 47 adults and immatures at Goose Quill Lake north end, Alberta. The species, once scarce after 1929 droughts, breeds mainly in the Great Plains with a range extending to Great Slave Lake in some years.
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Prairie Migratory Bird Officer
Department of Mines and Resources
Goosequill Lake
Alberta
Great Slave Lake
Northwest Territories
Great Plains
Prairie
Sympathy and listening rooms aid bomb victims in England
The Marchioness of Reading, leading the Women’s Voluntary Service with over 50 000 members, announced in Preston that the WVS will provide listeners for bombed-out residents who want to talk about their experiences. In Birmingham a local group forms the Birmingham District Bombers Association. Lady Heading urged listeners to give full attention, noting nervous victims need to talk and be heard.
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England
Marchioness of
Reading
Women’s Voluntary Service
Preston
Lancashire
Birmingham
Heading
Have Other Interests Among Sleeping Car Workers
The Brockville Recorder and Times reports that sleeping car and chair car staff include university students and even graduates. One Canadian sleeping-car conductor holds a Bachelor of Engineering, and a sleeping-car porter on the Toronto-Sudbury line uses spare moments to prepare sermons for a London Ontario congregation where he serves as pastor.
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Pottera
Brockville Recorder
Times
Toronto-Sudbury
London
Ont
Weather spell sparks classroom quip about harsh spell
A teacher quizzes Willie on spelling weather and labels his attempt as the worst spelling effort in a year. The exchange highlights a light classroom moment centered on weather vocabulary and school humor.
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Willie
Great Caribou Herd Moves South Through Manitoba Trails
A vast caribou migration descends from the far north into northern Manitoba near Churchill. Joe Baker, a Hudson Bay Railway worker, reports 10,000 to 15,000 animals marching 20 to 30 miles daily in a herd described as 11 miles long and two miles wide, followed by timber wolves feasting on carrion and stragglers. A foreman named John Zword killed a wolf and fled a pack by climbing a pole before reaching safety. The piece notes ostrich plumes once plucked in boom days.
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Manitoba
Churchill
Arctic
Joe Baker
Hudson Bay Railway
Winnipeg
Baker
John Zword
Zword
League Of British Nations Spreads Culture And War Time Leather
British tanners report a 60 percent output rise in 1940 supplying 20 million pairs of service boats weekly. Hides come from 60 overseas parts, with 40 percent from Empire cattle. Argentina Uruguay Colombia and Brazil ship high quality hides as Britain exports sole leather adapted to overseas markets. The League of British Nations grows from empire ties to autonomous equal nations shaping war effort and postwar relations.
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Britain
South America
Argentina
Uruguay
Colombia
Brazil
Atlantic
Sole Lathor Tanners Association
Great Britain
Dominions
Canada
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Japan
South Africa
Ahort
League of British Nations
Prosperity in Iceland Report From Hekla Voyage
Sailors aboard the Hekia report booming Icelandic business with 130000 residents at home and 30000 in Reykjavik. A record herring catch boosts demand in Britain and shifts villagers to north coast fishing centers amid wartime rationing and exports to the British Isles.
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Iceland
Britain
British Isles
Brain Bank Proposal to Preserve World Learning
Dr K A C Eliott urged a western hemisphere brain bank to save world learning during a new dark age. Speaking to the AAAS he said Western labs and scientists must be protected and their literature preserved for future decades, with ongoing international exchange of ideas.
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Western Hemisphere
United States
American Association For the Advancement of Science
K. A. C. Eliott
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Elliott
Australia to produce 9 million shells yearly
Australia plans to run munition factories on two and three shifts daily creating an annual output of 9,000,000 shells of various sizes. The move supports wartime needs and expands production capacity domestically.
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Australia
Potato output in Manchester tops 400 tons last year
Industrial Manchester in England produced more than 400 tons of potatoes last year on park land, highlighting unusual agricultural use of urban spaces. The remark notes local crops grown on public park land, reflecting a shift in city farming practices.
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Manchester
England
Danish Bachelors Face Soap Rationing Dilemma
National limits force households to choose between one cake of hand soap monthly or a shaving stick. Individual weekly soap allotment stands at about 14 ounces per person with laundries, barber shops, and baths cut to 75 percent. Butter and margarine also scarce with butter set at 12 ounces weekly per person and restaurant use down 55 percent.
Noisy corner at 6th Avenue and 24th Street
The world’s noisiest street corner is on the New York City intersection of 6th Avenue and 24th Street. It is described as so loud that a person would become two thirds deaf while standing there.
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6Th Avenue
24Th Street
New York City
Rice paper and taxidermy notes in Formosa hints
The fragment notes that rice paper used by an oriental artist is made from the pith of a Formosa tree. It also mentions taxidermists needing ants to clean flesh from small animals when skeletons are sought.
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Oriental Artista
Formosa
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