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Miss Roy, a comely Manitoba-born French Canadian who had also tried her hand at schoolmarming and amateur acting, was well-pleased with her success-and her $3,000 in royalties. But she went right on working in her home at rustic little Rawdon (pop. 2,000) in Quebec's Laurentian mountains. Then a happy chance, of the kind she had written about, befell...
Since Sherritt Gordon Mines did not have enough planes to rush in prospectors and supplies, it decided to keep the discovery to itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...
...Party. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is only 14 years old. Besides controlling the government of Saskatchewan, it is the official opposition in three of the Dominion's nine provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia). It is Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
...general election (1945) it got 822,661 votes (against 393,230 in 1940) and increased its number of seats in the House of Commons from eight to 28. In the latest provincial elections in British Columbia and Nova Scotia the party gained in popular vote while losing seats. In Manitoba, it gained both ways. To meet the socialist threat, Tories and Liberals in Manitoba and British Columbia have coalesced...
...easy as that. He went to work for a Mennonite farmer at Gretna, Manitoba, for $110 a year and keep. By 1903 he had saved enough to return to the Ukraine for his wife and three children. They brought ten other Ukrainian families to Canada with them...