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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later by a merging of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies, it did not follow the lead of U. S. Methodists in ordaining women. Unable to administer such sacraments as baptism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Canadian First | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

This year marks the inauguration of the international college league formed last semester by Harvard Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth in the United States and McGill, Montreal, Toronto, and Queens in the Dominion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY COACH STUBBS ASKS FOR CANDIDATES | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...Geneva British Delegate Mr. William Shepherd Morrison said of Economic Pacification: "We are likely to prefer-it is our British way-a pragmatic and practical approach, slow but sure." This, however, is not the Australian way, and that Dominion's vigorous representative, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, roundly declared to the Assembly's Economic Committee: "The progress of Science in the last 15 years has made possible efforts of production which would enable a higher standard of living to be reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Economic Pacification | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Canada's west coast is the Dominion's biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Vancouver's Mayors | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...depreciated if a week and that, to make up this depreciation, Albertans were paying the Government 52% interest a year on their average weekly balance. Last week the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce called the Aberhart money "a heavy and discriminatory taxation scheme." The Chamber had already appealed to the Dominion Government at Ottawa to force Premier Aberhart to withdraw his prosperity certificates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fresh Money | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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