Immigration control shifts to prairie provinces
Regina reports Premier J T M Anderson says Saskatchewan will manage future immigrant character and numbers under an understanding with Ottawa. Alberta and Manitoba officials note similar arrangements with provincial control starting June 1, with transportation-company agreements expired. A prairie inter-provincial conference in Winnipeg is anticipated to focus on immigration and unemployment policy.
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Regina
Edmonton
Winnipeg
J. T. M. Anderson
Feakatchewan
Ottawa
Alberta
Saya
George Hoadley
Prairie
Man
Manitoba
R. A.hoey
Bhat
Hoey
G. Hoadley
Grain Elevator Burned In Saskatchewan Fire
The Pool elevator in Silton Saskatchewan built in 1912 and holding 11 000 bushels of grain burned as a fire started the night before and smouldered Wednesday morning June 4. Loss is about 25 000 dollars with spontaneous combustion suspected. Seven empty CPAL box cars on the loading track were moved to safety by hand to avert damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silton, Sask
CPAL
Prince of Wales Substitutes For King At Trooping
In England the Prince of Wales stood in for King George during the Trooping of the Colors on the monarch's birthday. The king, 65, watched from a balcony at the Admiralty, hindered by rheumatic trouble. Churchill on Hudson Bay reports tripled population with equine terms and a six horse town in Manitoba.
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Tendon
England
Prince of Wales
King George
Horse Guards
Welsh Guards
George
Admiralty Building
Churchil
Churchill
Hudson Bay
Pas
Department of Railways and Canals
Manitoba
MacDonald Sees No Channel Tunnel After Cabinet Decision
Prime Minister MacDonald told the House the government has decided against building the English Channel tunnel. He announced a white paper to circulate a formal statement but did not reveal the cabinet's reasons for the decision.
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London
England
MacDonald
House of Commons
Health Insurance System Advocated for Canada
The Canadian Manufacturers' Association endorsed a state health insurance plan to reduce sickness related lost productivity. Citing a British Columbia commission and examples from England Germany and the United States the report argues sickness accounts for more downtime than all other causes combined. The committee backs a thirteen month calendar in cooperation with government.
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Toronto
Canada
Industrial Relations Committee
Distributing Samples Of Champion Wheat In Toronto
Five thousand samples of Alberta wheat that won the world championship at the Chicago Grain Exhibition will be distributed to Shrine visitors in Toronto. Alberta Minister of Agriculture George Hoadley arranged the plan after negotiations with Shriners. The 5 090 phials contain the champion wheat grown on Joseph H. B. Smith’s farm at Wolf Creek, Alberta.
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Toronto
Ont
Alberta
Canadie
George Hoadley
Joseph H. B. Smith
Wolf Creel
Alta
Question on Insurance Rates for Hudson Bay Route
Ottawa minister T A Crerar says insuring shipping by the Hudson Bay route is not a current priority. He cites Imperial Shipping Committee findings that rates can be fixed only after navigation and icebreaker operations are established. European traffic on the Day route won’t resume for 14 to 15 months. No plan to insure shipping until rates are set.
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Ottawa
Hudson Bay
T. A. Crerar
Imperial Shipping Committee
Crerar
Grain Broker Sentenced in Winnipeg for Bank Fraud
F. H. Bole, a prominent Winnipeg grain man and former head of Electric Retrieval Company Limited, was sentenced to two years in penitentiary after pleading guilty to three charges of obtaining money from the Bank of Montreal by false statements. The amounts totalled 55 000 dollars. The judge ordered concurrent sentences of one year on one charge and two years on the other two.
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Winnipeg
Man
F. H. Bole
Bank of Montreal
Bole
Electric Rievalor Company, Limited
Winnipeg Exchange
Icelanders Leave For Celebration
Prominent members of western Canadian Icelandic communities totaling about 150 departed Winnipeg on June 3 bound for the millennium celebration of the Althing in Reykjavik Iceland this month. At the station Lundress of friends and local organization representatives bid farewell to Prof R Beck head of the Scandinavian languages department at the University of North Dakota and H Westergaard Norwegian vice consul at Esterhan Sask.
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Winnipeg
Man
Reyijavik
Iceland
Lundress
R Beck
Hea
Department of Scandinavian Languages
Universit of
North Dakota
H. Westergaard
Esteran
Sask
Five Quebec Senators Appointed by Mackenzie King
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced five new Quebec senators after four cabinet meetings. Appointees include Rodolphe Lemieux E W Tobin J E B Prevost George Pareu and L A Wilson, filling the vacancy created by Senator Louis Lavergne's resignation due to ill health.
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Ottawa
Quebec
Rodolphe Lemieux
Sy.nker
House of Commons
E. W. Tobin
Richmond-Wolfe
J. EB. Prevost
Terrebonne
George Pareut
Quebec West
L. A. Wilson
Caudreuil-Soulanges
Forest fires destroy scores of farm houses in Ontario
Fourteen year old boys helped defend Sioux Lookout as forest fires raged for six weeks. More than twenty five families about 75 people were temporarily homeless. The Larson area suffered frame-house losses and mink farm damage estimated at 50 thousand dollars, with total property losses near 106 thousand. Paul Garten, former German ace and Western Canada Airways pilot, died in a Lake Seseganagra crash while surveying the fires.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Sioux Lookout
W. PB
Bill” Hicks
Ontario Air Force
Hicks
Ontario
Paul Garten
Western Canada Airways
Lake Seseganagra
Allan Water
Garten
Atr- Mab
Gatten
Larson
Lakehead
Canadian National Railway
Albert E. Swain
Canada to Represent Delegates at Berlin World Power Conference
Dr. Charles Camsell announced that Canada will be well represented at the second World Power Conference to be held in Berlin from June 16 to 25. Delegates include Camsell, John Murphy, F P Burden, T H Hogg, G A Gaherty, J C Glassco, with papers on Canadian water power resources and a banquet featuring a telephone radio hookup including Edison from New Jersey.
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Ottawa
Canada
Berlin
Germany
Charles Camsell
Camsell
John Murphy
Department of Railways and Canals
F. P. Burden
British Columbia
Blue Print Floated From Melita To Assiniboia By Wind
A blue print travelled over 175 miles by high winds from Melita Manitoba to Assiniboia Saskatchewan where a resident retrieved it from the air. A R McDiarmid Ltd received the print back with note removed from Assiniboia picked this out of the air during big blow. The print had been sent to Melita in a bid for work and no other copy existed.
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Melita
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Brandon
Man
Assiniboia
Sask
A. R. McDiarmid, Ltd
Mission Hospital Fire At Fort Simpson Causes Major Loss
Fire swept through the Roman Catholic Mission Hospital at Fort Simpson on June 4 inflicting more than fifty thousand dollars in damage. Names of unknown origin were involved as sisters in charge performed heroic work saving all patients and valuable equipment before the old building, erected about twenty years ago, burned.
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Fort Simpson
S.w.t
R-100 to land at St Hubert amid prep crowds
Canadian National Railways prepares for the R-100 dirigible arrival from England at St. Hubert Air Field near Montreal. Special trains from Bonaventure Station will run as track work installs sidings and a large mooring mast is erected for the event.
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St. Hubert Air Field
Montreal
England
Canadian National Railways
Bonaventure Station
St. Hubert
Empire Air Expansion Marks Atlantic Route Plans
Lord Thomson told the House of Lords that Empire airlines grow quickly, with 22,350 miles of regular routes and new links planned. He cited Cape to Cairo progress, Indian Australia expansion, and Atlantic airways, noting Canadian cooperation as pivotal to Atlantic surveys and possible operations.
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London
England
United States
Lord Thomson
Air
House of Lords
Australia
Cape
Canada
Secretary of State For All
Gas Well Blaze At Junction Sparks Rush Near Hudson Bay
Prospectors and residents hurried to a blazing natural gas well 20 miles south of Hudson Bay Junction as a CNLR outfit, at 260 feet water depth, observed gas seeping and ignited it with a flame rising about ten feet. Indications of oil have appeared in the district, but this marks the first push toward a natural gas well with potential large gas release if deeper drilled.
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Mudra Pay Junction
Hudson Bay Junction
C.nlr
Onr
King George Replies To Canadian Birthday Greetings
King George sends thanks to Premier Hin and the government and people of Canada for their birthday greetings and loyal sentiments expressed in a government message from Ottawa Ontario.
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People of
Canada
Ottawa
Ont
King George
Hing
Thomas Given New Dominion Secretary Post in Cabinet
Ramsay MacDonald announced in the House of Commons that J. H. Thomas will become Secretary of State for the Dominions a newly created cabinet post. The move reflects plans for Dominion affairs ahead of September Imperial Conference and follows Thomas's earlier role as dominion secretary in 1924.
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London
England
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
J. H. Thomas
Privy Seal
Dominions
Dominion
British Colonial Office
Dominion and Colonial Office
MacDonald
Imperial Conference
Thomas
Lencon
Subsidy On Western Coal Announced By Dominion Government
Ottawa reports a one year freight rate reduction of one dollar per ton for Crow's Nest Pass coal from British Columbia and Alberta to Manitoba, boosting domestic use. Saskatchewan briquettes receive 50 cents per ton aid when used domestically. Administration falls to the Dominion Fuel Board with conditions on moisture and calorific value.
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Ottawa
Canada
Charis Stewart
Crow’s Nest Pass
British Columbia
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dominion Fuel Board
Calgary Man On Committee Ottawa
The War Veterans' Allowance Act Committee members announced by Hon J H King include Walter B Woods of Calgary as chairman. Col Dougall Carmichael from Owen Sound and Major F J Garneau also serve. Garneau works at the Department of Soldiers Civil Reestablishment in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
J. H. King
Walter 8. Woods
Calgary
Dougall Carmichael
F. J. Garneau
Woods
Soldiers’ Settlement Board
Carmichael
Owen Sound
Drury
Major Garneau
E. B. Garneau
Quebec
Que
Department of Soldiers’ Civil Reestablishment
Record Flight Sets North Air Travel Marks
Commercial Airways makes a historic run from Fort McMurray to Aklavik covering 1620 miles in 112 hours and 4 minutes. The Bellanca plane delivers mail and express for the first time since winter closure, greeted boisterously by traders and natives. The Edmonton to McMurray leg now takes about two hours, cutting Arctic reach to roughly 14 hours from the city.
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Edmonton
Altlavik
N.sw.t
Mackenzie River
Fort McMurray
Aklavik
McMurray
Arctic Ocean
New Radio Receiver Demonstrated For Deaf Listener
A radio receiver adjustable to compensate for the lon a deaf listener was demonstrated to radio engineers in Atlantic City New Jersey. Jo Titus G Aceves consulting engineer from New York explained its function and demonstrated performance before the Radio Club of America meeting.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Jo- Tius G. Aeeves
New York
Radio Club of America
Italy would suspend naval program in Franco Italian talks
Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi says Italy will suspend its 1930 naval building program pending the Franco Italian conversations on naval limitation, if France agrees to suspend its program as well. The statement ties Italy’s move to France’s parallel action.
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Rome
Italy
France
Dino Grandi
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