Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the hosts of the resettled were kicking up a fuss. From Alberta came a reminder to Ottawa that its Japs were temporary residents. The Union of British Columbia Municipalities demanded that every one of the Japs be repatriated to Japan...
...Lethbridge, Saint John, many another Canadian city and town, butchers topped off days of beefing about rationing by going on strike. In Montreal, some butchers closed their shops, then marched in a body to shops that stayed open, forced them to close too. Meat trucks reportedly were overturned. In Alberta, some 4,000 coal miners said they would walk off their jobs unless they got double meat rations...
...tiny, ugly collection of frame bunkhouses and mills squats forlornly on the shore of remote Great Bear Lake, in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is 1,400 miles north of the nearest railhead (at Waterways, Alberta), and 26 miles south of the Arctic Circle, in a part of the continent bleak with long, cold winter nights. The village has no official name, but it is sometimes called Radium City. Last week it suddenly found itself part of an all but incredible world drama, for under its fir-bearded slopes lies the stuff of which atomic bombs are made...
Home Fires. In Edmonton. Alberta. Donald Fry set fire to his house three times, explained to police that he did it to "keep my wife at home to take care of the children...
Limited Editions. In Alberta, Canada, a newspaper announced: "Due to the shortage of newsprint a number of births will be postponed until next week...