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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1951
Page
3
A brief on calendar reform tracing Julius Caesar's 45 BCE year with 365 days, the 67 extra days added between November and December, and Gregory XIII's 1582 calendar revision. England delayed adoption until 1752 prompting riots as Sept 2 was followed by Sept 14 and people mourned missing days.
The Children's Aid Society of Western Manitoba will hold its annual meeting in Brandon on June 11. Guest speaker will be Miss Winona Armitage of Winnipeg, director of the Children's Home treatment centre for emotionally disturbed teenage girls in the capital city. Miss Armitage is a native of Minnedosa.
The piece notes that she was educated in Edmonton and served six years as executive director of the Vancouver Children’s Aid Society. She also worked on Vancouver Island with British immigrant children, highlighting her public service background.
The Plaindealer reports a Souris town council meeting with a sharp editorial note that practical results lag, while a separate notice bans sale of unpasteurized milk and cream in Shoal Lake per The Star. A rapid city reporter compares populations of Minnedosa and Rivers with Manitoba’s 1951 directory listing centers over 500.
The World Health Organization drew up sanitary regulations to protect health during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The rules, effective in 1963, include sanitary control of aircraft carrying pilgrims.
A Rivers man believes he was deceived after uprooting maples from the Minnedosa riverbank and planting them at home. An expert warned those river willows require heavy water to bloom, prompting the man to vow decisive action against the deceivers.
Gerald Valley, a hospital orderly, warned by a hillside slide, rushed back into his cottage to rescue his wife and seven-year-old son just before the landslide smashed the south wall and struck the home near Ratevan while he prepared to leave for Estevan airport hospital.
A St Thomas Times-Journal note recalls Gladstone apologizing to Parliament for raising income tax to 14 pence in the pound as Russia threatened war, a conflict that later erupted in Crimea. It contrasts that era with current Russia raising the tax to nine shillings sixpence.
The Canadian Red Cross reports a widespread reach with over 1,300 branches nationwide. This expansion strengthens disaster response, health services, and community assistance across provinces and municipalities.
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