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...only a fraction of their problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with a well-rounded program to sell to U. S. duck hunters...
...national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang sunk clear through...
...view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery, 60-lb., temperamental female called Jelly Roll. For almost a week they traveled, the beaver riding in a huge, specially constructed tank, Grey Owl staying beside it in the baggage...
...Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (pop. 21,000,000) one day 20 years ago, word reached a young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later...
...north of the U. S. border, one day last week 1,000 friendly, happy people crowded to see Lydia Gruchy in a white dress and academic gown standing alone opposite seven male United Churchmen. She advanced to the altar, knelt while President John L. Nichol of the Saskatchewan Conference laid his hands upon her head and said: "Take thou authority to preach the Word of God and to minister the sacraments." The other churchmen laid on their hands, questioned Miss Gruchy, handed her a parchment signifying that she was now a minister...