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...vital east-west links were added. In 1958 the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Dec. 14) completed the longest microwave relay network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only a map in 1940 - will be paved and ready for traffic. "The '50s completed our unity from east to west," says Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton...
...land. Last year, only 54 of those admitted were classed as laborers; the new U.S. immigrant is a stable, older man, usually with a family and a nest egg, who moves to Canada's densely populated areas (in order of 1958 rank: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta) to provide the goods and services needed in a growing nation. Many, with capital or experience, are placed in the department's highest classification as "owners, managers, officials...
...pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have in the last year produced big gas wells that make the whole region one of the world's liveliest sites for oil and gas exploration...
...Papa of Dada. Harold Loeb changed more patterns than most. His father was a Wall Street broker, his mother a Guggenheim. Like his cousin Peggy Guggenheim, Harold found the climate of wealth intellectually suffocating, the security guilt-edged. After working in a construction gang in Alberta and tending a bookstore, Harold found himself, in 1921, by founding Broom. Names famed and forgotten spill from Author Loeb's pages like unstuck pictures from a family album. There was Ezra Pound, "dressed like one of Trilby's companions" in "black velvet jacket and fawn-colored pants"; James Joyce, dour...
...good, solid nuclear explosion separate imprisoned oil from the tight clutch of tar sand? If it can, the world's oil reserves may soon be doubled. The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska. The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands...