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...minirails. But as visitors are discovering in increasing numbers as the summer wears on, the 1,000-acre site is also studded with dozens of delightful surprises in the form of 20th century sculpture, ranging from Aristide Maillol's 1908 Desire to a 1967 blue, geometric Dyad by Saskatchewan's Robert Murray. And while most of the Expo sculpture executed in the 1960s would not raise an eyebrow at Venice or in a far-out Manhattan gallery, it is provoking plenty of conversation in Montreal, where many fairgoers are receiving their initiation into the nuances of contemporary...
...fact of Canada today is the push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...
Long into the night the combines clattered and roared, their headlights probing like huge pale fingers into the golden sea of Saskatchewan's wheatfields. As the harvest gathered momentum across the 1,000-mile sweep of the Canadian prairies last week, the empty, echoing granaries filled with the largest crop in the nation's history-a crop that is already sold out, as is all the grain the prairies can grow for the rest of the decade. With the rumble of the harvest came a cacophony of Canadian sounds that, taken together, sounded unmistakably like boom...
...Saskatchewan (pop. 954,000) has been transformed by the great wheat bonanza from a simple society where, until well into the 1950s, farm wives cooked on wood stoves, hauled water from the well and did their evening chores by the flickering light of a coal-oil lamp. Now farm families are moving into town, and the old-fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry...
...that wheat is the only treasure of the prairie provinces. Another is potash, greatly in demand as fertilizer. Saskatchewan has so much of it underground that Premier Ross Thatcher may fairly accurately boast that his province not only grows the wheat that feeds the world, but also mines the potash that grows the wheat that feeds the world. At Esterhazy, the 3,200-ft.-deep corridors of a new $60 million International Minerals & Chemical Corp. mine glow in strobe lights, as drilling machines shear out the pink ore for export to Europe and Asia. Eleven more potash mines...