Five major national problems in Canada symposium
A Financial Post series on Canada’s five top national problems features interviews with leaders across industries, public life, and academia. The discussion, spanning relief, unemployment, markets, government costs, transport, immigration, health, and agriculture, shows wide disagreement on priorities and solutions. Professor J. E. Lattimer argues agriculture is central, linking price discrepancies to depression and unemployment, and favors lowering general prices to boost farm competitiveness.
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Dominion
Canada
Financial Post
J. E. Lattimer
Macdonald College
P.Q
Lattimer
Etail
Man Finds Extinct Volcano Cone in Manitoba
Harry N. Hawes a Dauphin prospect or discovered an extinct volcanic cone in the Boggy Creek district north of Roblin within Duck Mountain forest reserve 210 miles northwest of Winnipeg. Five streams traced from the cone form a lava bed with a nearby mineral hot spring. The inverted cone edges measure a quarter mile across and 200 feet deep.
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Manitoba
Harry N. Hawes
Dauphin
Roblin
Duck Mountain Forest Reserve
Winnipeg
Amazing Young Linguist Prodigy Stuns State With Vocabulary
Cres ton Iowa two year old Carol Lynn Rowe astonishes linguists by a 600 word vocabulary and rapid growth. She studies German and plans French Italian and Spanish next. A visitor quips about ages as a Boston boy discusses his testing. Russia reports 106 languages in the last year.
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Carol Lynn Rowe
Creston
Iowa
Vimy Memorial Designed by Walter Allward in Canada
The Vimy Memorial rises with twin pylons 138 feet high designed by Walter Allward the Canadian sculptor artist who drafted it in minutes on a napkin fourteen years ago. Stone blocks from Spalato in Yugoslavia bear the names of 11000 Canadian soldiers listed as missing. The allegorical group shows Canada mourning her dead with figures of Truth Justice Knowledge Peace and the Spirit of Sacrifice standing over sleeping warriors from twenty years ago.
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Tts
Walter Allward
Spalato
Yugoslavia
Diocletian
Canada
Where Japan Excels Higher Education Is Placed Within Reach Of All
London Daily Herald notes that in Japan public education is strong and accessible with university fees about £12 per year. It argues social mixing benefits both rich and poor, and claims Japanese workers outperform their English counterparts in more than wages, suggesting education as the key factor.
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Japan
London Daily Herald
Coronation Merchants Eye Far East Trade For Flags Medals
Japanese merchants in the Far East seek orders for flags hunting medals and postcards ahead of the King's coronation next year. British traders note higher quotes from English manufacturers versus Japanese suppliers as they prepare to sell empire market goods. The piece also mentions a royal family nurse and a sensational honeymoon anecdote from News of the World. The United States is cited as producing 90 percent of the world's finished silk goods.
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Far East
Princes Arour Ot Onnauget
Arthur
The
News of the World
United States
Deep Sea Mystery of the Joseph Medill Sails to Canada Then Vanishes
An inquiry in Newcastle on Tyne examines the disappearance of the Joseph Medill, a welded motorship built for Great Lakes service. En route to Toronto, she left the Tyne, then Caithness, Stavanger Fjord, and Bergen, with 16 people lost. Possible causes discussed include collision, fire, or a wreck near sparsely populated Newfoundland and Labrador coasts amid iceberg activity.
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Newcastle- Jon-Tyne
Joseph Medill
Tyne
Caithness
Stavanger Fjord
Bergen
Norway
Medill
O. L. Bateson
Board of Trade
Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland and Labrador
Chalk River Boys Band Leader Built Juvenile Orchestra
The Chalk River Ontario Boys Band, led by founder W Ormiston, formed after he sold his belongings to buy 25 hundred dollars in instruments for 24 boys aged eight to seventeen. He trained them for a year and plans a fall Toronto CN errors show, now paid bandmaster.
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Chalk River
Ont
Toronto
W. Ormiston
Petawawa
Ottawa River
Ormiston
Selected Recipes and Seance Banter From Essex
A fragmentary column includes a recipe for muffins using butter sugar molasses eggs milk flour baking powder salt bran and raisins with step by step mixing and oven directions. It also contains a quip about a seance visitor asking to talk to Mr Brown and a note that Essex students receive free bicycles if they live far from school.
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Essex
England
Saskatchewan Debt Adjustment Board aids farmers 1936 crop plan
Government circular outlines debt adjustment services in Saskatchewan with offices in every judicial district. It explains order of crop proceeds to cover harvesting costs, seed grain, and farmer maintenance, then urges credit improvement. Board resources are free and available via local representatives for distressed farmers.
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T. C. Davis
Saskatchewan
T. Devi
Debt Adjustment Board
Province of
Cals
Regina
Astrict
Department of Municipal Affairs
Department of Agriculture
TG Davis
Oldest Living Tree Claim Highlights Queensland Macro zamia Grove
In Queensland's Tamborine Mountain reserve a grove of macrozamia trees is believed to be 12 000 to 15 000 years old with the youngest around 3 000 years. Professor Chamberlain noted a 20 foot specimen, larger than any previously seen and seeds from 15% of the fruit sent to America where one seed now grows in each of the 151 national parks.
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Queensland
Australia
Tamborine Mountain
Chamberlain
Chicago University
South Africa
America
National Parks
Customs Exemption Law Sparks Canadian Dissatisfaction
Canadians buying goods in the United States seek free entry under the 100 dollar exemption. Minister J L Isley notes some American stores told Canadians they could import any non prohibited items without a 48 hour US stay. Canadian rules require 48 hours absence before duty free entry and border officers enforce this. The piece also mentions Japan's 1868 industrial status in a brief, unclear aside.
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United States
J. L. Isley
National Revenue
Canada
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Calgary
Edmonton
Vimy Memorial
Scotland
Chalk River Boys
Mr. Brown
Kipling
Ypresin
Rudyard Kipling
NLY
Firestone
Firestone Ete Tal Res
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