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...Tories were confident. With Garfield Case, three-term Mayor of Owen Sound (pop. 14,000) in the field against McNaughton, they felt they could pick up enough dissident Liberal votes to win. But last week the situation abruptly changed. The Socialist CCFers picked a candidate of their own: Manitoba-born Albert Earl Godfrey...
...Prime Minister, Canada's Tory leader, John Bracken, has had a hard time outpromising his opponents, Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and socialist CCFer M. J. Coldwell. Just before he accepted nomination in the next Federal election for the farming constituency of Neepawa, Manitoba, John Bracken tried again...
...miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of thousands of crow and magpie eggs. In Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, the conservation group built 130 duck refuges covering 1,200,000 acres...
Northeast Gateway. The least valuable of the main airfields were five which the U.S. built in subarctic Canada to ferry short-range aircraft direct to Europe. They are located at The Pas (in Manitoba), Churchill (on Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which...
...harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...