Cranberry bog farmer keeps feet wet in Ontario
Orville Johnson operates a seven acre cranberry bog near Bala Ontario as one of Canada’s few commercial operations. He built a dam to control creek water, developed drainage ditches, and combats beavers while weathering floods and a 1957 crop loss from Hurricane Audrey. Harvest runs in October with flood harvest methods and market to Ocean Spray of Canada.
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Canada
Far East
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Orville Johnson
Ottawa
Ontario
Orville
Johnson
Bala
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Quebec
British Columbia
Macdonald College
McGill University
Muskoka
Toronto
Medora
Lake Muskoka
Ville
Audrey
Lake Medora
Johnsons
Ocean Spray of Canada, Ltd
The Lucky Dollar and a Hollywood Dream
A young woman recalls a silver dollar that shaped her life from childhood. Velma Swenson’s gift and a bank scandal influence a girl’s view of love, luck, and ambition as she grows toward Miss Narragansett County and Hollywood.
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Velma Swenson
Mr. Proctor
Velma
Worcester
Narragansett County
Hollywood
Eddie Regal
H. Hidalgo
Eddie
Hidalgo
Dial Conversion Program Details for Saskatchewan Telephones
Saskatchewan Government Telephones unveils a 1964 program converting about nine thousand telephones from manual to dial operation across twenty four exchanges in the province. Automatic switching buildings to rise soon, with all offices expected online by spring 1965, including rural lines. The note adds rural lines will also go dial. Between 1941 and 1961 Canadian farm size grew from 287 to 359 acres.
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Saskatchewan
Regina
Aso
Alcoholism and social reform around the world in 1960s notes
London Rescue Mission in Ontario expands with 78 beds and a 10 person staff under Alvin Roth. Since 1951 it has aided destitute men and opened a women’s division. In 1962 it served 75 000 meals and provided 30 000 lodgings. Prague enacts compulsory physician consultation for problem drinkers and Czech police test drivers with chemical reagents. In Montreal eight of ten adult Canadians drink or serve beer at home, 78 percent prefer home drinking.
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London
Ontario
London Rescue Mission
Alvin Roth
Wellesley
Roth
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Montreal
Quebec
International Surveys Limited
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June
Cis Oval
Toby Spry
Banff
Alberta
Shorty
Toby
Ashbury College
Spry
Boy Scout World Bureau
Galaxy Studio
California
Olver
S.G.T
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