Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boats, were picked up by a freighter without loss of life. Fifteen years later the owner and captain, Freeman Hatfield of Nova Scotia, bobbed up with the story that the Gypsum Queen had been torpedoed by a German submarine. He claimed indemnity and in 1931 finally got from the Canadian Government $71,276,72. Year later Captain Hatfield abandoned the sea, went to the U. S.. opened a small chicken farm in Candia, N. H. An old seafaring friend of his lived there...
Wednesday Evening, May 12 *Coronation MarchEdward German *"The Royal Fireworks," Suite Handel *Entr' acte from "Rosamunde" Schulbert *Finale, Symphony in C minor, No. 1 Brahms *French Miltary March Saint-Saens *"The Mikado," Selection Sir Arthur Sullivan Two Canadian Marches "The Land of the Maple" "Laurentian March" Laurendeau *"Sally in our Alley" (Transcribed for String Orchestra by Frank Bridgo *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"Pomp and Circumstance," March Sir Edward Elgar God Save the King *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...tilted rugged land sloping unevenly eastward from the Rockies and northward from British Columbia's upper border which is the 60th Parallel and where Mount Logan. Canada's highest, looms to 19,850 ft. To get into the Yukon sportsmen and other travelers take a Canadian Pacific steamship from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, change to the White Pass & Yukon Railway which snakes across a lake region between mountains to Whitehorse and thence to Dawson...
Especially pleased with his deal was Premier Pattullo, who now has a much bigger provincial stick to wave at Ottawa. British Columbia was coaxed to join Canada's other provinces when they federated in 1871 on the promise that the Canadian Pacific Railway would begin to creep across it in two years, be completed in ten. Actually neither the Government nor the Canadian Pacific was in any hurry and the last spike was not driven until 1885, a fact which produced in British Columbia an attitude of injured self pity which its new size should tend to relieve...
...service between engine and caboose at all times, and certain crack limiteds like the Twentieth Century have telephone service to anywhere when the train is at rest in stations, but nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving. In Canada some five years ago the Canadian National conducted a stunt whereby a conversation was held between London, England, and a train running between Montreal and Chicago. Regular service proved too costly, was discontinued...