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...beck of Pope Pius XI are dossiers on all the dioceses, all the archdioceses in the Catholic world. The better to keep him informed, all the Pope's bishops periodically report to him in person.* Thus when, four years ago, the archdiocese of Regina, Saskatchewan fell vacant, Pius XI could handily acquaint himself with names of candidates for that windswept Canadian post. But instead of selecting some seasoned churchman the Pope picked a simple priest whose years-36-made him the world's youngest archbishop. The priest was Rev. James Charles McGuigan (pronounced Mick-gwiggan). At 40, Archbishop...
There was no orchestra, but the dancers' legs moved with the precision of an expert ballet. The three men in the automobile on a dirt road cleaving an expanse of brown Saskatchewan prairie all saw the same thing-20 dancing prairie chickens...
...from his grandfather, who heard it from the Indians. The Indians believed it. Had not their ancestors long ago seen it with their own eyes and learned from it to do their own tribal dances? But hard-headed Saskatchewanians knew better. Up for re-election last month was Saskatchewan's Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson. Few days before election he returned to Regina, the capital, from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern districts of his province. Then he told his story. Motoring one day through a lonely stretch of prairie, he had stopped by the roadside, seen...
...judge then smacked heavy fines, with alternatives of jail sentences at hard labor in Fort Saskatchewan jail, upon Publisher Charles E. Campbell and Reporter Cowper of the Edmonton Bulletin. Both grumblingly paid...
...three for one and paid 25% on each of the new shares. By 1869 Hudson's Bay Co. felt secure enough to turn over to the Dominion of Canada the title to most of its original grant for ?300,000, keeping only 7,000,000 acres in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and land around its trading posts. From that time until just before the World War, little was done to develop the company...