Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until three days before the Coronation will Canada's most popular delegation, a troop of 34 scarlet-coated "Mounties," reach London, a fact that kept War Office underlings in a state of jitters for weeks. To Major General Sir James H. MacBrien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they cabled anxiously that the men come sooner to get their horses accustomed to cheering crowds. General MacBrien cabled back that the horses were being made crowdwise at Rockliffe Barracks near Ottawa...
...apple-cheeked youth 40 years ago, immaculate Thomas Duff Pattullo, now Premier of British Columbia, visited the hell-roaring gold-rush town of Dawson, Yukon as secretary to the Canadian Government's first. Yukon Commission. Tough miners and hot-spot sirens goggled at his white trousers, the first ever seen so far north. From that moment romantic Yukon wove a spell around...
...Silent Barriers" has to do with the struggle involved in pushing the tracks of the Canadian Pacific across the mountains of British Columbia. To show you that it is a real outdoor drama with lots of tough men in it, there are some emasculated versions of section gang argot, and an infinite amount of the players barking at each other. There is about the picture a certain inevitable gusto which attaches to any treatment of this sort of material, some genuinely thrilling mountain shots, and a plethora of weak women, outdoor men, and open spaces. Nonetheless, we were glad...
Lectures and movies of Nanda Devi were shown after the dinner. Nanda Devi is the Indian peak ascended by the club last summer. In the approaching vacation the scalers plan to tackle the Canadian Rockies, in preparation for which practice in local quarries will continue through the Spring...
Ships. At the close of 1936 there were 867 U. S. and Canadian steamers, motorships and barges with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo...