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Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
...Churchill is icebound, snow-laden. Sole reason for making it a port was to reduce Western Canadian wheat-growers' freight rates to Europe. Churchill, at latitude 59°, is no farther from Liverpool than are Montreal and New York, both of which are twice as far from the Saskatchewan wheat fields. For 50 years Canadian wheatmen agitated for a railroad over the frozen muskeg to Churchill. In 1931 they got it, at a cost of some $30,000,000, in the form of a 510 mile spin from The Pas, Manitoba, prime junction on the Canadian National Railways. Another...
...from milk & sandwich evenings at his home into its present $65,000 plant & structure. Seldom does Mr. Aberhart address Albertans without first having them sing Our God, Our Help in Ages Past and he always closes with a heartfelt prayer. To the sturdy citizens of the Pioneer Province (with Saskatchewan last to enter the Dominion of Canada) a final seal of goodness was set on William Aberhart last week by the fact that he himself did not stand for election. "If the people want Social Credit," said this studiously modest Messiah of $25 dividends, "there will be room...
Mackenzie King, having won Nova Scotia from the Conservatives in August 1933 won British Columbia in November. He scored a double victory in June 1934, winning from the Conservatives on that day both Saskatchewan and Ontario, whose new Liberal provincial Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bounded to notoriety as a Canadian Huey Long. This June the Liberals captured New Brunswick, and last week they swept Prince Edward Island, leaving not a single province in all Canada governed by Conservatives...
...Prince Edward Island. When his Bishop became Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta in 1920, the youngish priest went along, still as secretary. Successively chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese, he demonstrated his particular bent as rector of St. Joseph's Major Seminary. When in 1930 he went to Saskatchewan, Archbishop McGuigan found a fine archiepiscopal palace, no seminary. He gave up his palace, went to live with his priests, founded a seminary. Likewise he commended himself quickly to his Church's attention by financing his see through a long drought; by holding western Canada's first regional...