Buffalo Hunter and Fur Trader Recall Pioneer Days
John Swain, who just turned 86, recalls his family’s 1879 migration to Prince Albert after a 66 day ox cart journey from Headingley. He notes his father Thomas Swain’s hunting days with Gabriel Dumont, travels west with the Ashdown Company, and early schooling under Prince Albert settlers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Wetton
John Andrew Swain
North Battleforg
Thomas Swain
John Swain
Prince Albert
N.W.T
Headingley
Man
John
Canada
Forks of the Red
Assiniboine Rivers
Red River
Rockies
Gabriel Dumont
Louis Riel
Sturgeon Lake
Morris
Carlton
Fort Pitt
Battleford
J. H. Ashdown Company
Winnipeg
North West Territories
David Laird
Little Saskatchewan
Manitoba
MacLean
Saskatchewan
Rupert's Land
Emmanuel College
E. K. Matheson
Canon Matheson
J. A. Mackay
Home Workshop patterns sell playful child furniture
Advertisement offers three quarter inch solid stock tables and bunny lion chair patterns for kids dining and play spaces. Includes pattern tracing method, color guides, and steps to assemble a clothes rack and bunny lamp. Order details include 35c per pattern, $1.50 for five full-size patterns, and a note about spring outdoor play equipment. The text ends with a misprinted line about Nobel Prize 1901 prize awards.
Timely Hints for Perfect Coffee at Home
Practical tips for brewing coffee with fresh cold water, clean pots, and precise measurements. Emphasizes starting with quality beans, avoiding rancid taint, and never boiling coffee for best flavor.
Do You Know That Wild Geese Post Sentries During Migration
A curious note explains how wild geese mark their migration path by sentries while they feed. It highlights coordination, timing, and the collective behavior of geese during seasonal movements.
Funny and Otherwise Punchlines and Practical Jokes
A collection of short humorous vignettes and one liners. Jokes range from domestic squabbles and painter clerks to shopkeepers and recruits. The pieces deliver light quips about marriage, lawyers, boxing, show business, and travel lore with crisp setup and punch.
Buck Hunter Claims Long-Sought Prize In Snowy Chase
Five hunters stalked the Borketon area during opening day as Ed Childs finally killed a stubborn buck after a six year pursuit. Burley Townsend also shot a fighting pair of bucks, ending the duel with a clean kill as the season opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Childs
Borketon
Mr. Childs
Burley Townsend
Burley
Manitoba first co operative farm charter granted
A group of Manitoba farmers have been granted a charter for Valdimere Co operative Farm Limited, the province s first co operative farm. Located one mile south of No 2 Highway at Deleau this 1920 acre operation will move families onto the property in summer and build homes as part of a project to raise pure bred cattle a milking herd a laying flock and grain crops plus sunflowers. Members from Lowe Farm Elm Creek Roblin Basswood and Winnipeg plan to relocate and marry locally with planning and support from the Manitoba Co operative Services department as similar Saskatchewan farms prove successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carman
Man
Manitoba
Valdimere Co-operative Farm Limited
Deleau
Dan Blatz
Jake Doerksen
Lowe Farm
Ken Sisson
Elm Creek
A. Mitchell
Roblin
John Wottan
Basswood
Miriam Atkinson
Winnipeg
Wottan
Miss Atkinson
Blatz
J. K. Loeppky
H. Atkinson
Co-Op
Saskatchewan
Manitoba Cooperative Services Department
Federal Grant Made To Arborfield Hospital
A $8,000 federal grant will aid Arborfield Saskatchewan in hospital construction under the Hospital Construction Grant of the National Health Program. The funds support eight new active treatment beds with x ray lab pharmacy case room emergency and nursery facilities. Arborfield Union Hospital plans to convert its current building into a combined physician residence and offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arborfield
Sask
Paul Martin
Martin
Saskatchewan
National Health Program
Arborfield Union Hospital
Arborfield Union Hospital District
Auto License Number Matches Land Description in Alberta
Mrs. C Reynolds of Rolling Hills reports a coincidence that their family auto license plate, 15X13, matches the legal land description Township 15, Range 13. The current plates will remain until March 381, then Alberta plans annual plates from April 1. For 1954 plates will be bright orange with black figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks
Alta
C. Reynolds
Rolling Hills
Eid
Alberta
Winkler Taxpayers Face New Provincial Assessment Plan
Altona Manitoba: After this year Winkler taxpayers will pay taxes on an assessment made by two assessors from the Provincial Municipal Assessment Branch who are currently checking all town properties. The old local assessor gripe is ended as the new system takes over.
Forage Seed Committee in Manitoba Plans Rapid Multiplication
The Manitoba forage seed committee announces rapid multiplication of seed stocks for three new forage varieties Summit Crested Wheat Grass Erector Sweet Clover and Vernal Alfalfa after a Coordinating Committee meeting in Winnipeg. Since 1952 the group has multiplied Lasalle Red Clover Climax Timothy and Grimm Alfalfa producing 20000 12000 and 1000 pounds respectively in 1953 for 1954 multiplication and projects distributions by 1955 of one million pounds Lasalle Red Clover and two and a half million pounds Climax Timothy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Summit
Winnipeg
Forage Seed Project
Departments of Agriculture
Federal Department of Agriculture
Seed Trade
Canadian Seed Growers’ Association
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
Poem notes the tireless care of a mother figure as her children grow year after year despite the lack of awards. It contrasts the many children of different kinds with the still-present love and lessons of cleanliness, effort, and parting as they move on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Dale
Drayton Valley to be developed into model town
Drayton Valley, a small hamlet near Buck Lake on the North Saskatchewan river, is to be developed as Alberta's model town to support the Pembina oil field. Minister E C Gerhart announced sewer, water and telephone service and town planning overseen by the ministry. Streets will be laid out by government surveyors and building permits required before construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drayton Valley
Buck Lake
Pembina
E. C. Gerhart
North Saskatchewan
Edmonton
Gerhart
Alberta
Big Game Seen In Mountains Blairmore Report
Floris Le mire at Greenhill hotel Blairmore saw three moose and seven deer on foothills near buildings. He states the animals were real and not imagined, noting moose are uncommon west of MACLEOD, Alberta.
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Buffalo
St. Paul's Church
P. H. Jordon
Bishop Steer
North Mattleford
D.D.D
Brown
Gloria
Mariel
Jean
Judy
Trudy
Jed
Ted
Charlie
Betty
Joan
Jack
Mack
Angel
Venezuela
Hawaii
Leo Carroll
Shoto
Dauphin Herald
Dauphin
Arborfield Hospital
Winkler
Scott's
Fleischmann
Fleischmann’s
Sastasime
Chelsea
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