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IN APRIL fT WAS ANNOUNCED 1 fast-growing 1 ir try had made Canada the British
I ing producer for the fist tr Cana 1951 output of 6,500,000 tons
Bo previous leader—-whi 10.006 tor A $90,000,000 pipeline stretched

 

 

 

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pent from Edmont r, Wis. Other pipelines to the West Coast and
oO ar were tion. A November survey showed 185 of the 947
h} I for oil a North A can ¢ antinent were working
( id Estimates of Canadé re ibed from ae in 1947 to a
of 1,700,000,000 t at the Inte vplbiictad Pipe
ompany’s pumping station at rich ¢ flow of oi] before It goes inte
yipelin I 4 1,126-mile trip to the head of Lakes and eastern markets

EDWIN ALONZO BOYD, 38-year-old leader of Canada’s most notorious gangs of bank robbers,
in March wa

Toronto detective Edmund Tong and for a series of bank robberies and an escape from
Toronto’s Don jail. Captured, Boyd and three gang members again escaped from. Don jail. On
Sept. 15 he was behind bars once more and less than a month later two members of his gang

he focus—with his gang—of an intensive manhunt following the shooting.. of

 

ve Suchan and Leonard Jackson—-were sentenced to be hanged for Tong’s murder. Boyd
life imprisonment

 

IN OCTOBER, CANADIAN SOLDIERS fought their toughest battle of the Korean War at Little
Gibraltar Hill, with fewer than 100 facing 1,000 attacking Chinese. There were at least 66
casualties, including 14 dead and 13 missing. All but a handful of one company of the Ist
Battalion, Royal Canadian Regimtnt, were hit. Three men from B Company relax after the
battle. Left to right are: Pte. Murray Deadder, Kentville, N'S.; Pte. John Lewis, Highland Village,
Colchester; NS: and Pte. Artur MacDonald, Hampton Station; NB, "o si on

 

CANADA'S $2,000,000,000 livestock industry Was struck
vy Feb, 25 with the announcement of an outbreak of
foot-and-mouth disease ir outhern Saskatches

Some 2.000 cattle were destroy it} yn pt atior mountd
about $500,000 paid to Western Canac f ar H
RCMP officer posts a quarantine sig t farin ir Re
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Maurice L Dupilessis led his Union Nationale = to £
victory with 68 or the 92 seats. BE. C. Manning was re
premier of Alberta for the fourth me when t! Bocla
party Aug. 5 won its fifth straight eleetior 1935, with 52 of
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trade virtually eame to a standstall, Export wa

 

 

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ON FONE 12 the first of two upsets i year's five provincia
elections occurred when British Coiumbia voter lected the
Social €redit party by a Pow on Pre ~. & Ss
Bennett, Kelowna hardware mere t. ¥ y se he

at legislature and suceeeded a Liberal-Progressive Conservatly
coalition, in power since 1041. Three n tT} it Se; , Nev
Brunswick ousted a Liberal government in off y
chose a Progressive Conservative administration eaded by
Premicr Hugh John Plemuiiag, 52-year-old lumber merchant
The PC’s took 36 of the 52 seats. Premier T. C. Douglas and his
CCF government wére.re-elécted in Saskatchewan June 11 Wi
42 of the. province's 53 seats. In Quebec, on July 16, Premier

 

OCTOBER 14, a month aft@Pending a year’s chairmanship of the
North Atlantic Council, Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s external
affairs minister, stepped into another top international post.
He was named president of the United Nations General Assembly.

RY. HON, VINCENT MASSEY was appointed Ca ada’
January 24. Wealthy,.dultured~-his name for yrar

successor ta Lord Alexander brought to his new po
intellectual attainmefit. He is shown greeting Prime Minister 8
seventh session of Canada’s 2lst Parliament. Or¢ o

THE YEAR 1952 HAS SEEN tremendotis indus rial «
2% $590,000,000 project is qunder construction by tie Alum

 

 

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Governor-General Massey is the 56th in a line dati:

“ Confederation. He visited Prince Rupert in Octone

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MOST OF WESTERN CANADA'S record grain crop of |, 400,000, 06

and grain men opened full throttle on the bigges! grain-movint rush
farmers improvised granaries ranging from spire Dé adrooms tO a) a

of the remainder when grain elevators and reguar granaries bec:

thousands of bushels were piled in the open du? to lack of storage a

on the Matador co-operative farm near Swift Cirrent in southwes

the farfWs granaries (in background) hold 100/00 bushels.