PREPARE FOR V DAY CELEBRATIONS IN ROSSBURN AREA
Rossburn and District Board of Trade sponsors a town wide V Day event with store closures. A community service of praise and worship will be held at the Agricultural grounds weather permitting, else in the town hall. Schools plan parades with flags. churches to be represented by clergy. If news arrives before 9 am the day is a holiday. if after, the following day is observed.
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Rossburn and District Board of Trade
Homes We Fight For on the Home Front War Letter
A wartime message urges returning soldiers to protect home life from moral laxity and selfishness. It stresses loyalty, apologies to repair marriages, and the need for strong, moral homes as bulwarks against materialism and discontent. The author warns that defeat at home would be worse than battlefield losses.
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Battefront
Normandy
CN Railways Mobilized Huge War Effort in World War II
A CN annual report supplement notes from Sept 1929 to Dec 31, 1944 the railway system was the largest single Canadian industry supporting the war. It transported over 132 million passengers and 423 million tons of freight, traveled 330 million freight and passenger miles, moved 10 billion car miles, and ran 6540 special trains for war workers and four million troops.
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Canadian National Railway
Canada
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Pariamat
Canadian National
Intercity Transport System War Service Statistics
During the war the System operated twelve hotels serving over 21 million meals and about 14 million hotel meals. Rail purchases exceeded 500 million. With about 97 085 staff, wages totaled 967.5 million. Twenty thousand employees joined the armed forces. 562 died and over 100 were decorated. Canadian Nations and staff subscribed nearly 14 million to Victory Loans and War Savings Certificates.
Time Bombs and Unity Call Ahead of National Debate
The passage urges starting from home to achieve national unity and faith driven sanity. It asserts Christianity and Judaism contribute, warns enemy ideas persist even after military victories, and calls people who care to dare. It stresses prioritizing public duty over personal gain and seeks a collective purpose larger than the individual.
Delegation Plans Nominating Candidate for Marquette Seat
Delegates gather to nominate a candidate for the House of Commons to represent Marquette at the next Dominion election and to handle other business. Only credited delegates will be entitled to vote.
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House of Commons
Marquette
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