Squaw Rapids hydro plant aims to power Saskatchewan
A detailed look at the Squaw Rapids hydro electric development on the Saskatchewan River outlines the ambitious 1960s project. It covers dam construction, spillways, a four mile canal, and a power plant delivering up to one billion kilowatt hours annually, plus the long term plan for a thirty year program harnessing four million horsepower across the river system.
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Saskatchewan
Boundary Dam
Estevan
Saskatoon
Canada
Ontario
Saskatchewan Power Corporation
Squaw Rapids
Saskatchewan River
Hudson's Bay Company
Malcom Ross
Thorburn
Sauan Rapids
Regina
Wascana Lake
Tobin
Squaw
Beatty
Queen Elizabeth
Hydro
Electrc
Nipawin
Carrot River
Sailor's Hero: Elvy's Deck Scrubbing Machine Rise
Frank James Elvy, born in Southampton, developed a deck scrubbing machine that became a sailor's hero as technicians perfected its design. Its descendants are used on eight British fleets and modern products include polishing and scrubbing machines, floor driers, field and factory sweepers, polish applicators, sign cleaners, and spark proof vacuums for radioactive dust at nuclear centers.
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Southampton
Saskatchewan Liberal appoints Otto Lang Saskatchewan campaign chief
Hon L B Pearson appoints Otto E Lang 31 Dean of Law at University of Saskatchewan as federal campaign chairman for Saskatchewan to direct campaign activities including organization training research candidate support and liaison with Ottawa. Lang, born in Handel Sask and educated in Humboldt, is bachelor and 1962 63 president of the Association of Canadian Law Teachers.
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L. B. Pearson
Liberal Party of Canada
Otto E. Lang
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Lang
Ottawa
Saskatchewan Liberal Association
Handel, Sask
Humboldt, Sask
Dick Robbins wins world flax championship at Toronto fair
Dick Robbins of Shaunavon, longtime exhibitor, captured the world flax championship at the Toronto Royal Winter Fair with Victory flax sown May 10 on an 115 acre plot yielding 18 bushels per acre. He also earned a $100 prize and a trophy from Searle Grain Co. Robbins, 80, has exhibited since 1923 and plans to return, still awaiting judging in the field peas class while he did not enter wheat this year due to spoiled samples.
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Chicago
Dick Robbins
Shaunavon
Toronto Royal
Mr. Robbing
Toronto
Searle Grain Co
Robbins
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William Thorburn
North West Company
The
Power Corporation
S.P.C
Little Beaver
SPC
P.C
Sask
Salam Ancr
Abo
Sailor's Hero
Liberal
Standard
Gunner E. Lorne Ferguson
Barrie
Ont
Army Physical Training Centre
Camp Borden
Ferguson
Army Manitoba
Army
2Nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Fort Osborne Barracks
Winnipeg
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