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...estimate: Canada's population is now 12,119,000. up 612,345 from the 1941 census figure. Three provinces (Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) have declined in population. Ontario has gained 216,345 and crossed the 4,000,000 mark. British Columbia has made the biggest proportional gain of all, with 131,139 new citizens for a total...
...glad to get off the train at Regina, despite the sub-zero weather. George W. (for Woodall) Cadbury's 6 feet 5 inches fold uneasily into a sleeping-car berth. After a good night stretched diagonally across two Hotel Saskatchewan beds, he was in fine humor as he talked to newsmen about the job which had brought him all the way from England...
Handsome, positive George Cadbury,* who thinks socialism in all Canada is inevitable, sees Regina as a city of opportunity. On the invitation of Saskatchewan's socialist CCF government, he will head a new "industrial planning commission," will thus get in on the ground floor of a province-owned industrial empire already worth nearly $4 million...
...Saskatchewan's government-owned plants are already set to turn out boots & shoes, bricks, fish fillets, horsehide coats, woolens, boxes, type, lumber and power. The government can also supply fire and general insurance, looks forward to marketing a volcanic-ash kitchen cleaner, running a bus service and perhaps a Moose Jaw radio station. With Cadbury at the helm, this might be only the beginning...
Onward Christian Soldiers. In Saskatchewan, a returned antitank battery explained why it was called the "Pious 65th": it boasted three Bishops, two Parsons, one Churchman and one Goodenough...