Beausejour Built on Industry and Growth History
Beausejour boasts a long record of enterprise from brick and glass factories to flax processing. Early 1900s hotels, a busy creamery, flour mills, elevators, and a growing service sector followed the town’s Trans Canada Highway placement. By 1945 a 300 locker quick freeze plant, low power rates, and multiple distributing centers marked its modern economy.
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Joseph Keilbach
Canada
Keilbach
Manitoba Glass Manufacturing Co
Dominion Glass
Beausejour
Red Cliff
Alta
Netherlands Flax Co
C. A. Maddin
H. Howland
Howland
L. Lentz
Bethel Bros
Peerless and
Genaski
Bob Hayes
Beausejjour
Manitoba
S. Meltzer
Hydro
T. &. Gray
W. Kanaroski
Sam Turner
Henry Shaw
E. A. Dugard
F. Palecek
T. T. Worzykowski
M. J. Hoban
D. T. Fawcett
G. M. Huntley
Beausejour’s Beaux Arts and the New Investment Bonds
Beausejour features its 1911 theatre and a thriving banking setup led by W Craik at the Royal Bank of Canada, plus a 1936 Post Office run by Wm Laur ie since 1913. The town celebrates a strong school system, doctors, lawyers and churches, a new war memorial Recreation Centre, and upcoming Canada Savings Bonds with denominations of 50, 100, 500 and 1000.
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Royal Bank of Canada
W. Craik
Manitoba Tracks Welcome New C N R Passenger Agent
The Canadian National Railway appoints a new district passenger agent for Manitoba. Native Manitoban Mr McKenzie succeeds M J Dupuis, moving from Winnipeg where he serves as chief clerk in the general passenger department. He began with the Canadian Northern Railway in 1917 and has held multiple posts, including travel agent in Saskatoon and passenger traffic representative in Vancouver.
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Canadian National Railways
Manitoba
M. J. Dupuis
Edmonton
McKenzie
Vancouver
Winnipeg
General Passenger Department
Ontario
Port Arthur
Fort William West
Mauretania Ends War Service to Start Peacetime Refit
The Cunard liner Mauretania, 35 700 tons, ends wartime duties on September 2 and will be reconverted in Liverpool for peacetime traffic in about six months. The project aims to employ two to three thousand men. During war service she logged 538000 miles and carried 330000 passengers, with a recent record round trip United Kingdom Singapore and back.
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Mauretania
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Singapore
Return
Fred Dreger Farm at Beausejour Wins First Prize
Beausejour district’s Fred Dreger farm, spanning 280 acres six miles from town, earned the First Prize For Better Farming from the Brokenhead Agricultural Society. The feature notes 44 years in Canada, 23 years on the land, and a near power delay due to Manitoba Power Commission shortages. Wheat yields are cited, oats and barley lower, and the piece highlights Mrs. Dreger’s cooking and the family of Ella, Agnes, Alfred, and Ralph active in farming and local prizes.
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Beausejour
Fred Dreger
Brokenhead
Regent
Dregers
Ella
Agnes
Miss
Manchester
Alfred
Emily Treichel
Golden Bay School
Ralph
Britain Exports Razor Blades In Large Quantities
Trade returns show Britain ships an average of 8 million razor blades weekly abroad, with July exports totaling over 33 million. The 1938 figure stood at 13 million, and one UK firm notes first half this year export sales up 174 percent from the same period in 1939.
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Britain
United Kingdom
Purchase Of New Bonds Limited To Individuals
The limit for purchases of the new Canada Savings Bond by individuals is set at 2000 and bonds may only be bought in personal names. The policy, echoed by the Finance Minister in June, aims to prevent large institutions from dominating holdings. Bonds are registered as to principal to control ownership and are intended solely as personal savings.
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Canada
House of Commons
Asley
Canada Savings Bond
Canada Saving
Silence and Reserve as Latent Power in Men
A concise reflection on how silence and restraint can project strength, suggesting that restraint or quiet demeanor holds more influence than outspoken talk among certain men. The piece contrasts vocal assertion with the persuasive weight of measured reserve.
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By Valerie Manchester
J. L. Turner
States
S. H. Greenberg
A. Campbell
D. Welsh
North Fastern
Us.a
Gretsinger Bros
Lake of the Woods
Canadian Consolidated
North
Imperial Oil
British American
McColl Frontenac
North Star
Wm. Laurie
Board of Trade
the Legion
Women's Institute
Ing
Master
Give Bay
Stylecrest
Dudsons Bay Company
NEW C.N.R
F. N. McKenzie
Dreger Farm
Mr. Dreger
The
Manitoba Power Com
Consult
Peter Romanch
Somerset
Shijo
Burs Burns S Co
Linn Beausejour, Man
Lockport
East Selkirk
Red River Motor Coach Lines Ltd
Hargrave and
Graham
Selkirk
LIBAU
Lac DU Bonnet
Pine Falls
Homenice President
Red River Motor Coach Lines Limited
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