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...named Major Clifton Hugh Douglas, having long sensed a bankers' plot to keep buying power out of motion, brought his Social Credit movement to North America. Its theory-that the State should credit "National Dividends" to its citizens to increase their buying power-was intriguing enough to carry Alberta's provincial election in 1935. Fortnight ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a practical reformer launched a version of Social Credit that would have sent Major Douglas staggering to a neutral corner...
...Calgary, Alberta...
Teaching Fellows in Chemistry: Maurice M. Pechet, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, M. Sc. University of Alberta '40; and Adoniram J. Wells, of Cambridge...
Died. Sam McGee, oldtime Yukon sourdough and inspiration for Poet Robert William Service's rugged North-Country ballad, The Cremation of Sam McGee; in Beiseker, Alberta. Oldster McGee returned to the Yukon two years ago, found his old two-room shack turned into a tearoom emblazoned with a macabre invitation: "Have a cup of tea with the ghost of Sam McGee...
Late Monday night Houde found out. He was taken into custody and interned, presumably for the duration of the war. Too Much. Across the flat, silky wheatlands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the great combines purred last week, cutting and threshing wheat. Every grain the machines gathered was a problem. Canada's wheat economy is built on an average annual production of 350,000,000 bushels, of which the greatest part was formerly shipped to Britain. Of that Britain marketed a large amount. Blitzkrieg and the fear of helping the enemy has knocked that market out. Last year Canada...