P M invited to Bay Route convention in Churchill trip
The 1959 Churchill Excursion and Hudson Bay Portow Bay Paiute Association Convention will combine this year with a summer excursion by Canadian National Packge from Saskatoon and Regina to Churchill Manitoba. Jas F Gray states the 61st convention will be Aug 3 4 with rail use to host tourists and delegates in a town of about 1600. John Diefenbaker invited as speaker. officials from federal and provincial governments expected to attend.
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Churchill
Hiison Bay
Hudson Bay Rroute Association
John ©. Die
Albertacraft Festival displays crafts from Alberta and beyond
The 1959 Albertacraft Festival showcases crafts from Alberta provinces and the United States at Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary and Edmonton. March 31 to April 4 and April 14 to 18 feature invitational openings, convention sessions for craft clubs, and two days of demonstrations by master craftsmen with over 70 displays. Scholarships and honorable mentions will be announced on the third day.
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Alberta
United States
Jubilee Auditoria
Calgary
Edmonton
Alberta Department of Ecconomic Affaira
Albertacraft
Alberta Visual Arts and Handicrafts
Beating the Beef: Tranquilized Steers Taste Better
A new tranquilizing drug was injected into steers days before slaughter in a Kansas City plant to calm them. Treated meat reportedly tasted better after tests with newspapermen who compared steaks from both groups. The inventor asked if it would work on people, replying he had never eaten people.
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United States
Kansas City
Former Grenfell boy titled as Anglican educationist post
Former Grenfell pupil Michael Creal now an Anglican priest has been appointed an important post as an educationist within the church. He serves as Diocesan Missioner and examining chaplain to Bishop Walter Bo Bagnell of Niagara and began duties in January with the General.
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Grenfell
Y. E. Hodges
Regina
Michael Creal
Diavesan
Walter Bo Bagnell
Niagara
University of Toronto
University of the South
Sewanee
Tenn
Trinity Colege
Toronto
Winona
Christian Education
The
Diovese
Ladocesan
Ocxaimteng
Creal
Printed Pattern 4570 Misses Dress and Jacket
Print pattern 4570 for Misses sized 10 to 18 features an easy sewn dress and matching jacket. Includes yardage for 39 inch fabric and 24 inch fabric, with complete instructions. Also notes pattern request details and mailing address for Anne Adams Pattern Dept.
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Stemesim Osheath
Portage Leads Winter Work Efforts Under Council Vote
Portage la Prairie Manitoba reports no abled-bodied men available for relief work while some Sunan workers are employed on winter projects. Council member Metheral calls the schemes very successful in easing unemployment, with unemployment insurance funds being repaid through pay cheques as advances. The Enterprise Portage la Prairie Manitoba.
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Portage la Prairie
Portage
Anwest
Apy Uy
Chaiman
Metheral
Portage la Pramme
Inflation harms Canadian goods abroad by pricing them out
Inflation at home harms Canadian goods abroad by pricing them out of the market, weakening exports and widening trade gaps. Domestic costs rise for producers, reducing competitiveness in international markets and potentially affecting jobs and growth.
Imaginative reading urged at Saskatchewan school workshop
Miss Lyle Evans provincial supervisor of school libraries spoke at the seventh annual School Library Workshop in Fort Qu Appelle. She urged encouraging fiction reading to develop imagination, add moral awareness, and aid human understanding. Twenty three librarians attended to plan in service training to boost library use in education.
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Lyle Evans
Margaret Tjeltrich
Swift Current
K. McDonald
Saskatoon
West
Stan Bock
Hudson Bay
Harold Fenske
Sturgis
Sask
Valley Centre
Fort Qu’Appelle
Saskatchewan
Esther O'Connell
Meadow Lake
Peter
Ida McKechnie
Lierdminster
Treasure Island
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain
Stan Back
Adeline Fraser
Kindersley
Phoebe Cutbush
North Battleford
Embroidery Pattern 7093 for Home Crafts in Toronto
Pattern 7093 offers embroidery motifs for pillows tops curtains and linens to delight children. Send 35 cents and provide name address pattern number and payment to Household Arts Department Department PPL 6 Front Street W Toronto.
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Household Arts
P.P.L
Front Street W
Toronto
Plans for operation grasshopper
Dor FE Mastromattea, medical consultant to Shell Oil's Chemical Division, stresses careful use of grasshopper insecticides for human safety. He urges following supplier guidance, wearing neoprene gloves, coveralls, a cap and leather shoes, and maintaining clean practices during mixing and loading. Do not smoke during handling. wash hands and face before eating. If dieldrin is swallowed call a doctor and induce vomiting. If skin is splashed remove contaminated clothing and wash with soap and water.
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Dor. FE
Mastromattea
Shell Oil Company
Toronto
Nature Sunday observances mark conservation week in Canada and elsewhere
Across the civilized world Electric Week honors Thomas A Edison and in Canada National Wild Life Week runs April 5 to 11 with Nature Sunday on April 12. The Jack Miner Foundation sponsors the Canadian observance as an educational project promoting conservation and wildlife resources for future generations.
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Civilized World
Thomas A. Edison
Canada
Jack Miner
Fish and Game Departments
the Wild Life Federation of Washington
TPC
Wild Life Week
House of Commons
Ottawa
Canadian Senate
John B. MacNicol
Cupola and weather vane patterns for home workshop use
In the Home 77 Workshop introduces Pattern 407 for building a cupola to suit a garage or breeze way on a work bench. It includes steps and a device for shaping the bottom to follow the roof line. Pattern 241 for the weather vane is also offered at 40c.
Rock and Row Pattern Toy Catalog Note
Fragmented OCR notes describe Rock and Row sailor guards and extra passengers for a toy boat, Pattern 408 with stage culling guides, included in packet No. 42 with four other toy and furnishing patterns. Mentions Workshop sttms at 444 West 6th Avenue Vancouver Canada and Canada’s status as a large net importer. Mentions Canada births 1958 Q1 158,306.
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West 6Th Avenue
Vancouver
Canada
The Farmer Our Friend and Grumbling Neighbor
A portrait of farmers as hard workers with crusty fronts and soft hearts. The piece praises their independence, community aid, and practical skills from farming to carpentry and veterinary care, noting their weather whims and constant striving as another season approaches. It emphasizes loyalty to neighbors and the local Globe’s ongoing stories of communal farming efforts.
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Alberta
From the Editor s chair pioneers laid to rest in Qu Appelle
The Progress notes two pioneers, a Scottish born farmer and a Down East carpenter, laid to rest. It salutes their hard work amid drought and mosquitoes that transformed prairie land into homes and farms. Their legacy of perseverance and vision helped conquer the west and feed millions.
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Scotland
Anyway The Word Trend Ends Sentences In Social Lore
A Portage da Prairie note surveys the rise of using anyway at sentence ends. It traces an old joke where a word is split for a rising pitch and contrasts it with modern playful usage. The piece jokes that this habit may swell social irony yet threaten future invitations and hints at a humorous defense of civilization.
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Empire
Anne Adams Pattern Dept
Stree
Furvate
Alice
Chidren
J. J. McConnell
Nature
Othateth
Birdhouse
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Alta
the Progress
the Daily Graphic
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