Word: saskatoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Peter Verigin ("Peter the Sec ond"), 53, leader of Western Canada's 15,000 Doukhobors; in Saskatoon, Sask...
...slick radio voice, his politico-religious antics, his lessons on finance & economy, "Bible Bill" drew such huge crowds wherever he moved that he gave faraway orthodox Ottawa the scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would be approved...
...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 by a merging of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies, it did not follow the lead of U. S. Methodists in ordaining women...
...department stores in a dozen cities in Western Canada glitters the name HUDSON'S BAY CO. The Winnipeg store did a $7,600,000 business last year; the Vancouver unit, $6,000,000; the Calgary store, $2,600,000; stores in Victoria, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Kamloops, Nelson, Vernon and Yorkton, another...
Canadians, more rural than U. S. residents, are less self-destructive. Average rate for the Dominion's large cities was 14.9 per 100,000. But Victoria last year rated 20.8, Saskatoon 22.3, Vancouver...