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...Carte. In Calgary, Alberta, the Palliser Hotel's guests included: Dr. C. M. Bunn, I. Frankfurter, and J. C. Mustard...
...night last week, Alberta's Attorney General Lucien Maynard lugged a portable radio into the Legislative Assembly at Edmonton. With one ear he followed the debate, with the other listened to a hockey game in Calgary. A conscientious chap, he kept fellow legislators informed of the score by hand signals. Maynard's enthusiasm was something every Canadian could understand. In Canada, hockey is the national game...
...Alberta, Canada destroyed 24 head of purebred Shorthorn cattle; but the loss was covered by insurance...
Four Flyways. One of the warmest Indian summers in Canada's history had kept the ducks at the sloughs and potholes of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they breed and spend the summer. It takes a freeze to chase them south. Last week, a few weeks behind schedule, the mallards, redheads and green-winged teal began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take...
Directors of the United Farmers of Alberta demanded that the Dominion Government halt Exchange trading in coarse grains, put all buying through the Canadian Wheat Board (which now buys virtually all wheat). In Saskatchewan, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner said: "I am sympathetic to the idea." He was confident that if there were abuses in Exchange trading, the Government would ask Parliament for authority to do what U.F.A. asked...