National Parks Of Canada Prove To Be Strong Attraction For Tourists
Canada’s national parks draw heavy visitor numbers as postwar travel returns. Parks expand from 10 square miles to 29 000, with Banff Jasper Yoho Waterton and refuges like Elk Island and Wood Buffalo accommodating anglers hikers and campers. Government campsites offer facilities while diverse regions from Ontario St Lawrence Islands to Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Highlands showcase scenery and wildlife.
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National Parks of Canada
Tee Park
Canada
National Parks
Rockies
Banff
Jasper
Selkirks
Yoho
Kootenay
Mount Revelstoke
Glacier National Parks
Alberta
Waterton Lakes National Park
Alberts
Elk Island National Park
Edmonton
Buffalo National Park
Wainwright
Wood Buffalo National Park
Northwest Territories
Prairie
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Prince Albert National Park
Riding Mountain
Prince Albert
Ontario
St. Lawrence Island
Georgian Bay Islands
Point Pelee
Lake Erie
Maritime Provinces
Prince Edward Island National Park
Provinere
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cape Bruton Highlands National Park
Miscellaneous Historical Trivia Items
A collection of curious facts spans Ethiopia’s climate, Linnaeus flower clock, ancient Egyptian checkers, English coin practice, Marco Polo and spaghetti, Elizabethan fish days, Guatemalan bride purchases, wives refunds, and silkworm flight loss and dependence on humans.
Godfrey Tearle to Play Roosevelt in The Beginning of the End
Godfrey Tearle will portray Franklin Delano Roosevelt in The Beginning of the End. Sam Marx, producer of the atomic bomb picture, announced the casting after viewing Tearle's screen tests from England.
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Hollywood
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Godfrey Tearle
Sam Marx
Tearle
England
Millions Of Aliens Pour Into The United States
United States Attorney General Tom Clark estimates 60,000 aliens entered unlawfully in a month with 30,000 arrested by the border patrol. The patrol staff in the southeast rose from 50 to 110 agents as patrols cover 60,000 miles monthly from Louisiana to South Carolina. Deserters and criminals among many nationalities form the largest groups, including Mexican border entrants and war manpower deserters. The passage ends with a weather proverb about thunder and lightning.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Tom Clark
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Border Patrol
Louisiana
South Carolina
Mexico
War Manpower Commission
Snow Lake to rise as model town in northern Manitoba
A new town is planned at Snow Lake near the Hudson Bay Railway and Sherritt Gordon Mine. Projections show a school, homes, and a business centre on the plans with survey lines already laid. Builders will replace bunk houses as roads and streets are carved out. By July 1948 a 50 mile power line from Sherritt Garden, 1000 feet of sinking, a mine opening, and a 2000 ton mill must be completed.
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Manitoba
Snow Lake
Hudson Bay Railway
Sherritt Gordon
Main
Sherritt Garden
Nothern
Turtle Yields 200 Year Old Snap Ping Turtle
In Watkins Glen New York Albert Smith fishing on Lake Lamoka pulled in a massive 30 pound turtle believed to be over two centuries old. A note warns of increased electrical shock deaths in summer due to moist skin.
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Watkins Glen
N.Y
Lake Lamoka
Throne
Albert Smith
Research on Whales Spurs Industry Regulating Safeguards
In an London Calling piece by Dr F D Ommanney, the article outlines whale research begun after 1924 at South Georgia. It describes 3,000–4,000 whales measured, the Discovery voyage, marking 5,000 whales, and findings on age, migration, and populations of blue, fin, and humpback whales. Regulators from 1937 set whaling limits to prevent stock depletion and ensure the industry’s survival.
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F. D. Ommanney
London
Antarctic
South Georgia
Falklands
South America
Dependencies
Falkland Islands
British
Colonial Office
South Africa
Scott
Discovery
Hudson Bay Company
South
Southern Ocean
Whitehall
Lord Inchcape Reveals Ambassadors Wardrobe Quirks
Britain's new Ambassador to the United States Lord Inchcape told the National Press Club he does not fit the typical ambassador image. He joked that he carries a small satchel with papers of international importance but humorously notes it also holds pipes and an extra set of teeth.
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Lord Inchcape
Britain
Washington
National Press Club
Paul Wooten
New York Post
Embroidery Pattern 7318S for Dirndl Bodice
Lovely embroidery adds beauty to dirndl colors in pattern 7318S. Transfer of bodice included with sizes 2 4 6. State size. send twenty cents in coins to Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue East Winnipeg for pattern.
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Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue E
Winnipeg
Public bakeries rise in Rome around 168 B.C.
The text notes that public bakeries were established in Rome circa 168 B.C, marking an early shift toward organized bread distribution. It mentions a frequency or spread of such bakeries within the city, reflecting urban provisioning practices of ancient Rome.
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Rome
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Ummer
Noble
Ethiopia
Linnaeus
China
Europe
Italy
Marco Polo
Guatemala
Banff National Park
National Film Board
Turtle
Larry Hightower
Ellensburg
Wash
Alice Brooks
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