What Oil Means To Canada
A detailed look at western Canadian oil exploration costs and refining realities. The piece outlines drilling times, well completion costs, and government recoveries, compares crude types by API gravity, explains refinery processes, and notes pipeline reach from Edmonton to Sarnia and Superior with 1954 output plans. It highlights heavy versus light oils, sour versus sweet crudes, and market movements for residuals.
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Canada
Blairmore
American Petroleum Institute
Leduc
Smiley Field
Saskatchewan
Virden
Manitoba
Turner Valley
Lloydminster
Leduc API
Smiley
Turner
Imperial Oil
Edmonton
Whitehorse
U.S
Prairies
Coleville
Makinac Straits
Regina
Gretna
Winnipeg
Superior
Butchart Gardens Celebrate Diamond Anniversary in Victoria
Victoria British Columbia celebrants mark 60 years of Butchart Gardens. Once a lime pit landscape project, the 25 acre site now features meticulously arranged plants and shrubs, drawing visitors to its floral displays and established grounds.
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Victoria
B.C
Butchart Gardens
In Saskatchewan a grosbeak saved by mate on road
A Grosbeak seen injured on a road in Yorkton, Sask. A male bird hovered over his wounded mate and lifted her to safety as a truck approached. The text notes only female mosquitoes bite and males have poorly developed mouth parts, feeding on nectar.
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Yorkton
Sask
Appetizing Recipes for Berry Preserve
Four cups prepared fruit with seven cups sugar and liquid fruit pectin are mixed, heated to a rolling boil, then combined with pectin and cooled briefly. The mixture is skimmed, ladled into glasses, and served as twelve servings.
Funny and Otherwise Funny and Otherwise
A string of light jokes and vignettes unfolds from a party in France to a taxi in pursuit of a lost bill, a student’s eye episode, a funeral defense joke, hotel room liquor, a golf misfire, and a saxophonist’s late night request. The humor mixes travel, misfortune, and wordplay with brisk punchlines.
Dean of Alberta auctioneers began selling at fourteen
Clarence F. Damron of Bentley Alberta, 76, long renowned as a premier auctioneer, began selling at age 14 buying crippled cattle and selling to packing plants. He moved to the district in 1902, started auctioneering seven years later, and built a career spanning 3,500 to 4,000 sales. He auctioned at Calgary bull sales since 1927, with top bids including an $8,200 Hereford and a $5,300 reserve champion. He never missed an auction date due to illness and once sold for 40 consecutive days. His son Richard assists in recent years as farm sales decline.
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Bentley
Alta
Clarence F. Damron
Alberta
Damron
Union
Omaha
Neb
Calgary
Damion
Lacombe
Damien
Richard
Embroidery Transfer Pattern 7333 from 1954 Alice Brooks Catalog
Pattern 7333 features 12 color flowers with lemon green leaves in four sizes across 41 by 4 inch blocks. Send twenty five cents to Department P P L Household Arts Toronto for the pattern and return address. Catalog promises new embroidery crochet sewing ideas and a 1954 gift concept.
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P.P.L
Household Arts Department
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks Needlecraft
Saskatoon names Dr. Hilda Neat as citizen of the year
Dr. Hilda Neat, author of So Little for the Mind and sole woman on the Massey Commission on Arts and Culture, has been named Saskatoon’s citizen of the year. She teaches in the University of Saskatchewan history department.
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Saskatoon
Hilda Neatby
Massey Commission On Arts and Culture
University of Saskatchewan
Planting Trees Advice From Forestry Station
R. H. Dunlop of the Forestry Nursery Station at Indian Head Sask warns that when planting trees and cuttings they must be kept in water or covered with wet sacks straw or moss to prevent sun and drying winds from reducing survival.
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R. H. Dunlop
Indian Head
Sask
Regina residents spend on liquor yearly study says
Saskatchewan residents allocate about 65 dollars annually to alcoholic beverages, estimated by Rev. Horace West, general secretary of the Saskatchewan Temperance Federation. He notes church members contribute roughly 20 dollars a year to their churches. Eat Right Live Right Feel Right.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Horace West
Saskatchewan Temperance Federation
Our town and its reputation
Guest editorial by B S Fry reflects on town friendliness and civic pride during Community Planning Week. It argues hospitality shapes outsider perceptions, notes chambers of commerce role, and cites Alberta town hospitality as a model, asking readers how their communities project friendliness and reputation.
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B.S. Fry
Country Guide
Alberta
Boards of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Skin Relief Across Canada
This antiseptic remedy known in Canada as Moone's Emerald Oil offers prompt relief for itching skin troubles. It targets eczema scalp and foot irritation, praised for antiseptic penetrating action. Sold by druggists nationwide as a real discovery giving relief to many long standing cases.
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Canada
Moone
Vertical iFlying device learning sorcery behold
A concise note describes a vertical flying device tied to African sorcery and a moment of behold and learning. The fragment hints at an innovation blend of technology and belief, suggesting curiosity about flight methods and cultural interpretations.
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Dean of Alberta
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Prairie Publishers Limited
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Star Weekly
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