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...Dominion Government was caught off base; it was angry and indignant at the sudden dropping of meat rationing in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King hastened over to tell the House of Commons his decision: the U.S. could end meat rationing if it pleased, Canada would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: A Hell of a Christmas Present | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...sharp outline Canadians saw this week how two World Wars had buttressed the Dominion's agricultural economy with a fine manufacturing industry. The lesson was recited by Reconstruction Minister Clarence Howe, who stood up in the House of Commons to give a final report on Canada's World War II output and an outline of peacetime industrial prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Over to Industry | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Canada, Howe declared, "had gained a new place as an industrial nation." To hold that place in peacetime, the Dominion would have to probe new export markets, expand old ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Over to Industry | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Wanted: a Flag | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Wanted: a Flag | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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