Manmore FOWET COteenon and Rural Electrification Progress
The commission traces its 1919 start toward rural electrification, moving from bulk sales to direct consumer billing in 1933 to standardize rates nationwide. By 1945 major rate cuts and a $900000 reserve fund stabilized pricing, with a 1945-46 construction program totaling over $2 million in revenue and plans to extend service to 1,000 farms and 78 towns and villages.
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Your Hydro
A City Sings Film Highlights Winnipeg Festival
The National Film Board releases A City Sings in the Canada Carries On Series portraying Winnipeg's Musical Festival as the largest in the British Commonwealth, showing its scale and cultural impact.
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National Film Board
Winnipeg
British Commonwealth
Wheat to alcohol and plastics drives wartime chemurgy efforts
The National Farm Chemurgy Council met in St Louis Mo to discuss wheat conversion into alcohol rubber and explosives. Reports covered U S and Canadian lab work on non food uses for wheat, plastics from wheat, oils from crops and new farm products generating substantial income. A Winnipeg Kiwanis essay contest on soil erosion in Manitoba farms offers $370 in prizes with rules and deadlines.
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Prairie farmers urged to sow more wheat and cut summerfallow
Amid reports of widespread hunger in Europe and Asia, a plea calls on prairie farmers to increase wheat acreage and reduce summerfallow in 1846. The appeal notes 194 million acres in summerfallow last year vs 147 million in 1939 and 124 million in 1931, arguing more wheat would save millions and create future markets.
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Europe
Asia
If you really want to replace war with peace
A compact call for ending conflict between individuals, urging personal peace and the cessation of hostilities with the next person. The message emphasizes nonviolence and reconciliation as a practical, immediate choice.
Secret wartime telegraph pole in Moncton revealed
A near invisible wartime infrastructure item stands outside a Moncton brick building. The pole and wires linked Atlantic Command bases via teletype and cables to Halifax Ottawa and London. The complex supported vital signals between naval air and army units, with scant guards or lighting and tight secrecy in eastern Canada.
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Halifax
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