Prairie Provinces Face Tough Road Funding Dilemmas
The Herald discusses Western Canada’s road building plan ahead of 1980, detailing federal grants, provincial goals, and the push for all weather trunk highways. It notes the shift from corduroy and gravel roads to potential paving as traffic grows, with routes from Fort William to Vancouver and Winnipeg to Jasper forming a vast prairie triangle.
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Anal Agath
Municipal Ca
Fort William
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Jasper
Prince Fupert
Cnes
Canada
Emerson
Lake Winnipeg
Fidmonteon
Calgary
International Boundary
Athabaska Landing
Athabaska
Arctic Ocean
Prairies
Euch
Tach
Canadian university to grant no honorary degrees this June
A Canadian university plans to confer none of its honorary LL.Ds this June. Some fear public applause will be constrained and knighthoods, long abolished in Canada, highlight the need for careful discernment by university leaders and the King's advisers in the matter of honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
Canada
Eren
Lindbergh Not Earning Salary as Commerce Advisor
Assistant Secretary MacCracken says Charles A. Lindbergh has drawn no salary in about five months since his appointment as an aeronautics adviser to the Commerce Department. He may be paid $25 a day when his services are bought, otherwise he receives nothing. No issue requiring his advice has arisen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Lindbergh
Aeronautics
Department of Commerce
MacCracken
Lindbergh
Commerce Department
Wealthy Askew funds colonist migration to Canada for farm placement
He Aitkew of Ladykirk near Berwick finances large sums to enable British colonists to go to Canada for agricultural placement arranged by the Department of Colonization and Development and the Canadian Pacific Railway. He told the colonists to “Make good” and promise him thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
He Aitkew
Faim
Ladykirk
Berwick
Canada
Department of Colonization and Development
Canadian Pacific Railway
Askew
Trying To Develop Hardier Strawberries
The wide strawberry race traces to two wild ancestors from the Pacific Coast and eastern United States with other wild types not used in breeding. Plant breeders seek traits from remaining wild varieties to improve cultivated berries for canning preserving and candy making.
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Canada
United States
Pacific Coast
The Mountain Pass serial ends nowhere in sight
A long running historical serialized story by Natazato Kaisan has extended for 13 years in Miyako, a Tokio newspaper. It spans 25 volumes with no conclusion in sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natazato Kaisan
Miyako
Manitoba eyes pension aid for blind under old age act
The Manitoba government seeks to extend old age pensions to blind persons needing assistance. Attorney-general Hon. W. J. Major urged the move on Labor Minister Hon. Peter Heenan, who promised sympathetic consideration when in Ottawa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
W. J. Major
Peter Heenan
Heenan
Ottawa
Frinted linen bloomer dress pattern for girls ages 6 to 14
The pattern No 921 offers a bloomers and dress set in printed linen with a two piece skirt and plaits for girls aged 6 to 14. It covers a shirted front, back waist extension, short puff sleeves, and a scalloped collar option. Materials include sateen and printed fabrics. price 25 cents with optional 10 cent add for Spring Fashion Magazine.
Government films for public exhibition proposed in schools
The Hamilton Spectator discusses showing government produced educational films in local schools to the general public. It notes the appetite for sensational pictures and suggests using a school auditorium for weekly government film showings to provide merit and counteract low-grade cinema.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominion
de Miami
Cal. G. R. McCullough
Hamilton Spectator
Stubble Burning Safety Campaign Aims to Cut Fires
The Saskatchewan Fire Commissioner launches a province wide educational drive warning farmers to exercise care when burning stubble. The Prairie and Forest Fires Act mandates a 20 foot fire guard and three adults to guard the blaze. Enforcements to tighten especially when long stubble from recent combine or swather use increases risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatchewan
Ivory Hunt in Yukon Beside Ancient Bones Unearths Prize
Ivory hunter Jack Eliott seeks a prize in the Yukon valleys where fossil tusks and bones of animals thousands of years dead lie buried. He travels to the Yukon amid gold rush recollections but instead digs relics from the past in creek beds. Prose mixes with a parable about settling down and prudence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Jack Eliott
Yukon
Eliott
Difficult Jasper Park hole hosts Western Canada Amateur
The Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course in Alberta features a tough hole for the August 19 24 Dominion and Western Canada Amateur Championships. The long driver faces well trapped greens and danger at No. 1. The event runs concurrently with the Dominion championship ensuring strong late season competition for all handicaps.
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Jasper Park Lodge
Jasper National Park
Alberta
Sune
Fort Norman Region Seen As Potential Great Oil Reserve
A long report highlights Fort Norman area as a promising oil field with Imperial Oil drilling since 1919. Discovery No 1 and No 2 produced oil in the Discovery Range, with production reaching about 160 barrels daily. The field’s oil is 35.6 degrees Baume, paraffin base, high in gasoline content, remaining fluid at extreme cold.
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Fort Norman
Mac_Weasie
Arctic Sea
Hudson's Bay Company
Bonita
McMurray
Fort Smith
Arctic
High North
Canada
T.Q. Bosworth
Far North
Mackenzie
Imperial Oil Limited
Discovery Range
Inperial Oil, Limited
Ita
Edmonton
Saskatchewan Clay Resources Survey to Continue This Summer
A plant survey and tests of non-metallic minerals in Saskatchewan will proceed this summer under Prof. W G Worcester of the University of Saskatchewan Ceramics Department, under the Provincial Department of Railways Labour and Industries. The program includes reconnaissance along new CPR branch lines in Wood Mountain, sampling clays bentonite and volcanic ash, plus a fuller Cypress Hills survey and investigations of white mud beds at Frenchman River. Further work will cover Northern Saskatchewan districts with railway expansion in view, including Rottenstone Lake and Lac la Ronge areas.
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Saskatchewan
W. G. Worcester
University of Saskatchewan
Provincial Department of Railways, Labor and Industries
Canadian Pacific Railway
Wood Mountain
Cypress Hills
Frenchman River
Rottenstone Lake
Lac la Ronge
Atlantic Coast Not Sinking Final Geology Report Declares Coast Stable
A group of geologists reports the Atlantic Coast is not sinking into the sea after years of study. The final results settle the long standing debate on coast stability and refute earlier predictions that New York City would someday submerge.
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New York City
Veteran NWMP veteran settles on Edmonton district farm
Alf Arecond, a Deschambault Quebec native, arrived in the Edmonton district in 1877 and bought a 284 acre farm for a cayuse and waddie. He just turned 70 and is a living veteran of the Royal North West Mounted Police, still on the farm purchased from halfbreeds in 1880 for the stated consideration.
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Edmonton
Deschambault
Que
Alfred Arecond
Arcond
Royal North West Mounted Police
Artist Roxley Refuses to Buy My Pictures
First Artist Roxley wouldn’t buy my pictures and wouldn’t look at them. Second, he refused to buy my pictures even after he did look, showing more concern for my feelings than for the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxley
Ming
New Government Decree Enlists Road Building Duties
In Yugoslavia every man must provide six days of service annually for road making. Vehicle owners with auto trucks and horse-drawn wagons must operate their vehicles for three days each year. Premier Jivkeviteh cites the need for a first class modern road system.
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Jugoslavia
Jivkeviteh
Four Men Engaged in Pooling Funds for Engagement Ring
In a playful exchange, Conk asks if Frances is engaged to three other men besides him. Frances replies with curiosity, suggesting the four could pool resources to buy him a ring.
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Frank
Frances
Dream of Death Echoes in Moustique Exchange
A fragmentary quote from Moustique Cchars Erat depicts a character named Bo distressed by a dream of dying within a week. The dialogue notes the dream occurred about a month earlier, signaling foreboding mood in the conversation.
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