Worthy Cause Launches Boy Scout Fund Drive in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan residents are invited to support the Boy Scout Financial Campaign launched this week. J S Ink of Regina chairs the drive with campaigns Sept 20 to 25 across communities hosting Scout groups. Donations may be sent to The Boy Scout Association 104 Gordon Building begins Sask. The effort funds leader training group organization and provincial field staff. The Lieutenant governor officially launched the drive with support from Premier Douglas and church leaders.
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Archbishop O'Neill
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Boy Scouts
Blacksmith at 89 still going strong
STONEWALL MAN Steve Fell, aged 89, has been blacksmithing for 74 of his years and shows no plans to retire. He recalls six rivals when he started fifty-eight years ago, survived competition from machinery, and only left his anvil briefly after a 1934 horse shoeing accident. He travels little now, preferring his village station over Winnipeg.
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Fell
Manitoba Port Closer to England
Manitoba’s inland location belies its ocean port which sits closer to England than New York, giving the central Canadian province a surprising shipping proximity to Europe. The fact highlights how geography and common misperceptions shape views of Canada’s maritime access.
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New York
Banff National Park Sees Record July Visitor Total
Banff National Park reports a July record with 165 388 visitors at the Eastern gates. Canadians accounted for 78 percent of entrants, marking another strong month compared with the same period last year.
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Banff
Banff National Park
Courageous Toronto girl Marilyn Bell completes Lake Ontario swim
Marilyn Bell, a 16 year old from Toronto, rose from a summer at home to become the first person to swim Lake Ontario. The young swimmer also finished seventh and first among women in a 25 mile Atlantic City race, earning $1,150 while coached by Gus Ryder. Her parents funded her training with a season pass to Oakwood pool, and her quiet determination contrasted with a lack of official greeting on arrival at Malton airport.
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Trim High School
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Atlantic City
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Gus Ryder
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Wet and dry cycles traced across 3000 years near Mortlach
Archaeologists led by Boyd Wettlaufer uncovered 10 soil levels at an early Indian camp near Mortlach Saskatchewan showing persistent wet and dry cycles for at least 3000 years. One wet phase dates to the early 1500s. University of Saskatchewan will test soil samples to refine the regional weather history and long range forecasting. Water seepage halted full excavation of the bottom layer dating 3400 years.
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Boyd Wettlaufer
University of Saskatchewan
Wettlaufer
BeGins Training As Flying Nurse in Chilliwack Canada
Vicki Swanson an eighteen year old from Chilliwack has earned a pilot license and started three years of training at St Pauls Hospital to become a flying nurse. She will then study public health at the University of British Columbia for a year. Swanson has logged thirty flight hours supported by her father a pilot since 1947.
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Canada
Life in Metis colony featured in NFB documentary
Prince Albert reports the National Film Board will film a Metis colony segment for Eyewitnesses, part of a Canada wide series on Canadian life. Victor F. Valentine, provincial resources department anthropologist, will consult for the unit as it highlights the Metis rehabilitation program noted as Canada’s most advanced.
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National Film Board
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Odeon Theatres
Canada
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Home Workshop patterns offer decoy making guides
The notice promotes Home Workshop pattern services with No. 312 on reupholstering chairs re webbing and springs and No. 404 for decoy making. It notes to order pattern 312 or 404 for 35 cents each, and mentions a Sportsman’s Packet of five patterns for $1.50 postpaid from Vancouver BC. It adds a health note about cigarette smokers discarding a quarter of each cigarette.
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Big game hunting thrives near home across North America
A survey of offers in two dozen top big game regions shows extensive seasons for grizzly bears caribou elk mountain sheep goats deer moose and even buffalo. Archery gains grow with liberal seasons in several states and provinces as licenses range from about 25 dollars to 101 dollars for moose permits in Quebec.
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Insects Ringing Northwest Territories Jokes From Air Force Leader
Frt. Lt. R. J. Goodley of the RCAF survival school in Edmonton warned that the insects of the Northwest Territories could be a severe burden. He said he would endure weeks in 50 below zero weather rather than face the summertime pest swarm.
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R. J. Goodley
Rcaf Survival School
Northwest Territories
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