Help Children Learn Through Play
A guidance piece on child development through play across ages birth to two, detailing how learning occurs at each stage. It lists suitable play materials and activities for infants and toddlers, emphasizing varied, inexpensive items and the growth of motor and language skills.
Grandad's Hospital Diary of Grandchildren Invasion
From a hospital bed a narrator recalls a five day visit from his daughter and two grandsons aged three and a half and one and a half. He describes the chaos of toys meals and fights, the grandmother’s skill with the children and the improvised care routine while his wife plans visits between golf and sewing seasons. The piece ends noting a cabinet shuffle and a vow to endure the stay in Autumn Daze.
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Bill Smiley
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Gran
Grandad
No. 2
Younger
Older
Fire Department
Areyle Syn
The Olden Days Entries From 1907 to 1937
A compilation of small notes dated August 29 1907 August 30 1917 September 1 1927 September 2 1937. Items include school renovations with J T Lyons contractor notes weather delaying haying and amendments to game laws affecting elk deer prairie chicken partridge and similar species. Also mentions Mae and Leila Matheson teaching in Prince Albert and editor J McIntyre returning from Toronto for eye treatment. Manitoba agriculture data places Russell District among top horse and swine and sheep counts as of June 1 1987. The brief entries mix local civic updates and agricultural statistics.
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Mae
Leila Matheson
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
J. McIntyre
The
Banner
Toronto
Russell
Manitoba Department of Agriculture
Canadian Metric Conversion Campaign Expands Across Provinces
Federal and provincial governments rush to educate the public on metric changes. Ontario spends over 600000 on highway sign updates and publicity while the metric commission budgets under 100000 for its four highway campaigns. Highway speed limits will vary by province from 90 to 100 kmh with September as the sign conversion start. Other changes include metric odometers by Sept 1 and milk packaging shifts, with fuel in litres arriving January 1979.
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Ontario
Metric Commission
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