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There are four Mormon temples in Utah, others in Hawaii, in Alberta (Canada), Arizona and Idaho; there are Mormon congregations in every state in the Union. There are Mormons overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Oldtime Alberta ranchers like Edward Waines, 87, have watched the Calgary Stampede grow through the years from a purely local show, which featured only straight ranch contests, to a commercialized, supercolossal spectacle. They have not been too happy about it. Last week, when Hollywood's Eagle Lion movie company moved into town to use this year's Stampede as background for a new horse opera in cinecolor, old man Waines gave up. "They're exploiting the cowboys just for the almighty dollar," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Horse Opera | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

After three days they had had enough. They were good miners, said their boss, but they were soft-coal miners in a hard-coal mine and they seemed "as lost as a lobster in an Alberta lake." Said one of the Capemen: "We want no more of it. It's too hard work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Greener Grass | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...rose Alberta's Norman Jaques (pronounced Jakes): "People need to be warned against insidious propaganda from [visiting U.N. employees]. . . . People [must] be on their guard against . . . adult education, world culture and science. [Men involved in such things] are drifting toward Communism, or totalitarianism if you prefer. It is not British; it is not Canadian, and finally it is not Christian. We are asked to give immunities to these people so that they may have the run of the country. No matter what they say or do, they will be above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Beware, Beware! | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...heard of greener pastures in Alberta, where the coal mines needed men. One day last month, with five fellow miners, he piled into a prewar Ford and headed west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Greener Grass | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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