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...Commission's plan. Some even thought it was too lenient (in the Provincial Legislature last fortnight, the Government's agriculture committee recommended legislation making it illegal for Canadian Japs, wherever born, to own or lease any land or business). Anti-Jap feeling was strong elsewhere, too. Alberta's Public Works Minister W. A. Fallow said that his Province wanted no postwar Japs. Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis said that he would take "necessary steps" to see that no Japs were relocated in his Province. Said Nova Scotia's Premier A. S. MacMillan...
...territory opened by the road was previously inaccessible and had never before been explored from a botanical standpoint. Construction from Dawson Creek, Alberta, to Fairbanks, Alaska, was completed in 1942 by Army Engineers...
...camp in Alberta, 100 Europe-bound draftees were missing. In Manitoba, at least 350 had vanished. In Saskatchewan, 400 were overdue from one unit, 200 from another. In British Columbia, military authorities admitted that 250 draftees, plus 232 active service men (volunteers) from that province had deserted. Pacific Command officials announced that action would be taken against sweethearts and relatives who harbored missing soldiers-a violation of the Defense of Canada...
...thin, 17-mile-long Turner Valley oilfield (only sizable field in all Canada except the Canol area in the far north) was obviously petering out. Nevertheless, oilmen were convinced that a great untapped oil reservoir lay somewhere under Alberta. War speeded up the search for the hidden pool. This year wildcat drillers spent nearly $15,000,000 in the search...
...site of an earlier test, where a Shell crew had drilled down to a record-shattering 12,056 ft. and spent $600,000 without striking oil. But oilmen were sure they had something this time. In Ottawa, Dominion geologists admitted cautiously: the Jumping Pound strike is "extremely important." In Alberta, the Shell Co. had already grabbed up drilling and royalty rights on a reported 73,000 acres near Jumping Pound. Other firms, U.S. and Canadian, were pouncing on whatever they could...