Credit Union Loans Rise in Manitoba in 1968
Manitoba credit unions expanded loans by 9.2 million in 1968 lifting total loans to over 92 million for 76 058 borrowers. Major loan categories included homes and real estate 20.85 million, autos and repairs 18.05 million, debt consolidation 12.82 million, and equipment purchases 9.01 million. The sector grew to 24 active unions with 197 574 members, earning over 11 million in interest and maintaining a surplus near 7 million.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Manitoba 1968 Farm Production Tops 475 Million
The 1968 Manitoba agriculture yearbook reports farm production valued at 475 million dollars, the second highest on record after 1966's 492 million. Cattle and hog values fell, poultry and dairy rose, and crop prices declined though total value rose due to higher output.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Agriculture
Greenhouse Seminar Planned For Manitoba Industry
Industry officials plan a greenhouse seminar at the Fort Gary Hotel to discuss starting a Manitoba greenhouse industry. The Nova Scotia model shows 70 acres under glass with 15 to 20 acres added yearly, plus construction, crop viability, soil needs, packaging, and marketing. Lectures run 1:30 to 4:30 pm and are free. attendees should notify R. B. MacNeill at the Department of Industry and Commerce, Room 508, Norquay Building.
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Nova Scotia
Manitoba
Canada
Fort Gary
Noity R. B. MacNeill
Department of Industry and Commerce
Norquay
Open Letter to Parkland Citizens on Regional Development
An Open Letter from Parkland Development Corporation urges Parkland region residents of Northwestern Manitoba to share personal and employment information. It emphasizes cataloging who people are and what they do to guide economic development, asking for quick candid responses when researchers call at residents' doors for data.
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Parkland
Manitoba
Parkland Development Corporation Organization
Frankiy
Joe Bronski Carries Comrade With Paralyzing Load
Sergeant Joe Bronski and Don Adams scout a swamp when Don is hit by a sniper. With darkness and a hill ahead, Joe recalls faith and carries the unconscious, paralyzed Don on his back to safety, a moment born from a lifetime of faith.
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Joe Bronski
Don Adams
Don
Joe
Joe Isaiah
Study of Artesian Wells Progress in Groundwater Research
A federal provincial ARCA funded program conducts aquifer studies across Manitoba areas Melita Carbery Oak Lake Ethelbert Minne osa and surveys in Interlake and Lake Dauphin regions. Geologists and engineers drill new wells near artesian sites seal bore holes with cement install frost line devices called Pigess units and fill old wells with concrete as part of designs to control continuous groundwater flow.
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ARCA
Ste. Anne
Melita
Carbery
Oak Lake
Ethelbert
Minneosa
Interlake
Lake Dauphin
Red River
Department
Tales of the bathroom progress and woes
A humorous reminiscence on upgrading a home bathroom from coal stove origins to a turquoise modern look. The narrator laments costs and delays, recalls a white cast iron tub and stubborn fixtures, and jokes about the endless plumbing and carpentry battles, ending with a quip about electric toenail clippers.
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Zeus
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Canadian National Institute For the Blind
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Stabilization Fund
le Fonds de Securite
Caisses Populaires
Prince OF Wales
Caernarvon Castle
Prince Charles
Charles Philip Arthur George
Prince
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Duke of Cornwall and
Rothesay
Earl of
Pere Comer Tietr
Ette Betuhota
Pease
Russell
Bill Smiley
Chateau Laurier
Im Syndicate
Moore
Russell Banner
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