Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is nobody we would rather have. The Americans fit right in." So says Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Ellen Fairclough, and this week her department is backing its sentiments with action. Two Canadian information offices are opening in Los Angeles and Minneapolis to supplement existing offices in New York and Chicago. Their purpose: to offer all help "short of money" to desirable U.S. citizens interested in moving to Canada on a permanent basis...
...Canada wants U.S. immigrants; last year's total of 10,846 puts the U.S. in fourth place as a source of new Canadian residents, behind Italy, Britain and Germany. By any standards, the U.S. immigrant has a high quality. The day is over when U.S. farmers, homesteaders and adventurers (50,000 in 1920) hurried north to help open a new 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...
Stenographer Mason and five others promptly formed a syndicate, notified Winnipeg Stamp Dealer Kasimir Bileski of their find. Astounded at the error, the first to reach the public in Canada's century of stamp printing, Bileski offered the syndicate $1,000 a stamp...
...title of national daily, the Journal is printed simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Dallas; beginning next year it will be printed near Springfield, Mass., and in Cleveland as well. Its 286 fulltime editorial staffers are scattered through 20 U.S. news bureaus, three in Canada and eight overseas...
...only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America, rarely attacks man. New Jersey had never reported a case of encephalitis before...