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Canada’s New Prosperous Era Fueled by Vast Resources
A feature notes Canada’s postwar boom driven by discoveries in uranium iron ore coal copper and oil. It highlights Timmins’s iron ore ventures in Quebec and Labrador the Iron Ore Co. of Canada schemes to link northern routes the Kitimat power complex and big investors like VenDures Ltd and Joseph Hirshorn funding hydroelectric and mineral projects. It cites 214 billion dollars spent on oil exploration and Western oil reserves estimated in the billions of barrels, signaling broad prosperity.
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Canada
United States
Trollope
U.S
Jules R. Timmins
Quebec
Labrador
Timmins
Pee
The
Iron Ore Co. of Canada
Seven Islands
Schefferville
Arctic Ocean
Columbia
Yukon
Vendures Ltd
Thayer Lindsley
Lindsley
Robert B. Anderson
British Columbia
Aluminum Co. of
Mount Ajtai
Ordieg
Kitimat
Vancouver
R. Joubin
Tario
Blind River
Uraii
Niagara River
Ontario
Joseph
I. Hirshorn
Saskatchewan
New Brunswick
Ana
St.’ Lawrence
Gospel Peninsula
Ince
New York State
St. Lawrence Seaway
Leduc
Edmonton
St. Valentine's