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Four Flyways. One of the warmest Indian summers in Canada's history had kept the ducks at the sloughs and potholes of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they breed and spend the summer. It takes a freeze to chase them south. Last week, a few weeks behind schedule, the mallards, redheads and green-winged teal began to go. They spread out over four major routes. The smallest contingent, about 15%, usually heads down the Atlantic flyway bound for Chesapeake Bay and the Carolina swamps, and get shot at by the smallest percentage of hunters (only 14%). About 25% take...
Directors of the United Farmers of Alberta demanded that the Dominion Government halt Exchange trading in coarse grains, put all buying through the Canadian Wheat Board (which now buys virtually all wheat). In Saskatchewan, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner said: "I am sympathetic to the idea." He was confident that if there were abuses in Exchange trading, the Government would ask Parliament for authority to do what U.F.A. asked...
...least one Canadian was sure that the warm spell would continue for a while. Out on the Piapot Indian Reserve, northeast of Regina in Saskatchewan, Chief Abel Watetch could see things invisible to most observers. Muskrat houses this year are not tall, he said, but their walls are thick. Rosebushes have lots of buds, growing close to the ground. Jackrabbits so far have only tiny patches of white on the tips of their ears and on their forelegs. The chief's solemn prediction: six more weeks of mild weather, then a moderately mild winter with not much snow...
Canada's biggest tourist year set new records. Long-term visitors (48 hours or more) from the U.S. had rolled across the border in August in more than 400,000 automobiles, up 30% from August 1946. Province after province reported bulging tourist figures; only Saskatchewan, short of tourist attractions and long on bad " roads, was the exception. Squawked a Detroiter to the Regina Leader-Post: "Your roads are horrible ; absolutely terrible. We even got stuck...
Most of the summer-becalmed press joined in the protest. As the unseemly spot persisted, Saskatchewan's Government announced that the internees' fate was and would be in federal hands. That put the next move up to the Dominion...