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CANADIAN PACIFIC
CANADA AT WAR
NO. 2—TOUR OF LARGEST AUTOMATIC GUN
PLANT IN ONTARIO |
By C. Bari Rice, formerly of Springfield Times, Lac Du. Bonnet, Man. |
hundreds of operations. There
total of 161 different parts in
gun, requiring 3,000 separate
ations. In the plant, there are
than 4,000 machine tools and
17,000 different gauges.
100 Per Cent Canadian
When the Government let the con
tract for the construction of these
guns, it stipulated that where possible,
onjy Canadian materials were to be
used. As a result, these guns are one
hundred per cent Canadian, with the
An automatic gun plant jn Eastern
Canada, is now the largest single pro
ducer of machine guns in the British
Empire today, ,
In the spring of 1938, the Canadian
Government decided to make Bren
Guns for the Canadian Army, Now the
■plant consists of some 19 buildings,
covering more than a million square
feet of floor space. At the outbreak
of war, the working personnel con
sisted of slightly over 400 persons.
"Today, more than 4,500 are employed’
is a
each
oper-
tnore
over
of the tremendous amount of work
Involved in their production. The body
of a Bren Gun starts along the
machine line as a rough forging
weighing 45 pounds. The body is the
part of the gun which houses the fir
ing mechanism. This forging passes
through 269 separate operations be
fore tt is completed. As many of these
operations require more than one
handling, and must be gauged follow
ing each operation, it means that lit-,
orally several hundred persons have
had*a hand in the production of the
gun body. By the time all operations
are completed, what had orginally
••been a forty-five pound forging,
weighs only five and one half pounds.
Guns For Airplanes
Browning machine guns are also
produced in this plant. These are the
guns used in our fighting airplanes,
six or eight being housed in the wings
of Hurricanes and Spitfires. A Brown
ing gun is capable of firing more
than one thousand rounds per minute,
and a blast from one of our fighter
planes’ six or eight guns, will prac
tically cut an enemy plane in two,
A Browning Gun while not quite
as intricate as a Bren. Gun, requires
nevertheless, a great deal of care and
detail in its production. There are 178
different parts, requiring 2,500 oper
ations for its construction. The weight
of a Browning, 35 pounds, is some
what greater than that of a Bren.
This plant also produces the Boys
Rifle. It js used for an entirely differ
ent purpose- than the other two guns
mentioned. It is a heavy sturdy gim,
firing a single bullet. These bullets
are armour-piercing however, and the
Boys Rifle is used extensively in ac
tion against light tanks and' armoured
vehicles.
'In the course of the next few
months, production will be doubled.
So perfect has become the system of
mass production of automatic gun
equipped in this plant, that the United
States has sent representatives to
study the details.
The same firm is • also turning out
marine engines on a large scale. Triple
expansion engines to, power Corvettes
are built here, and now production is
under way on the engines that are to
be used to power the Tribal Class
Destroyers Canada is now building for
the British Navy.
WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By H. J. Boyle .
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The young woman shown in this efficient weapons are being turned out
■photo is welding cartridge clips for by the hundreds in Canada and pro-
Bren machine guns. These light and} duction is always increasing.
on war -production, and in another exception of the walnut, imported
•nine of t.en months, that number will [ from the United States, used for the
be increased to around 9,000. Nearly
40 per cent of the employees are wom
en, and they can handle the machine
tools with all the dexterity of men.
More women will be used as meh are
called to other types of war work.
The production of a Bren Gun is
an intricate job, and requires literally
A. H. McTAVISH, B.A.
Teeswater, Ontario
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public
and Conveyancer
Office: Gofton House, Wroxeter
every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to
4.30 and by appointment.
Phone — Teeswater 120J.
gun stocks.
Bren Guns are as nearly fool proof
as it is possible to make them. They
cannot be assembled, incorrectly. If
one part fits into another, that must
be the correct wav, otherwise they
would not go together. They weigh
just 22 pounds.
Each gun is equipped with a spare
barrel, and twenfy-four magazines,
each magazine holding thirty cart
ridges. It is a simple matter to slip
one magazine oft and put another in
place; the operation requiring only a
few seconds.
Details of the construction of any
type of ordnance cannot be given. It
is possible however, to mention a few
pertinent facts regarding certain parts
of guns, which .will give one some idea
MATTRESSES
A reader sends along a note saying,
“Why don’t you write a piece some
day about mattresses?" • The letter
serves to sot a train of thought in
motion . . . and sure enough the
column starts out about mattresses.
Feather ticks were discarded at
Lazy Meadows when I /was a boy.
Mother ^heard some place they were
unhealthy and that literally billions 'Of
germs used to hide in among the
feathers of a .tick. She persuaded
Father to buy some new mattresses.
He was firmly convinced that germs
were all a lot of nonsense and so
when he came back from town that
.evening he had one mattress and a
firm glint in his eye which warned
everyone to accept the mattress with
out questioning, It was placed on the
spare bed.
- In due time it w.as moved to father
and mother’s room and a new one was
purchased for the spare bedroom.
Soon another' one was 'purchased for
the spare room . . , the spare one
moved to our parents room and we
were given the old one. After being
used to the billowing feather tick that
used to roll and toss with us on the
bed ... it was a* strange sensation
to climb in on top of that new straw
tick.
| have neyer been able to figure
out whether that hard straw matress
was .comfortable or not. It was hard
in places and soft in others. By rea
son of two small boys to burrow down
in the centre of it during the cold
winter spells it began to dish out at
the sides and. wear through at the
middle. There was a round spot in the
centre where the straw was all dished
out ami it was bulked up along the
sides in regular dyke-like, sort of ar
rangement.
Climbing into bed you would start
sleeping up on the sides and the first
thing you knew there would be a
scramble of boys in the middle, The
tussle and pulling and tugging of small
boys had a rather bad effect on the
mattress, Mother was sick at the time
and our hired girl never used to both
er a great deal with sweeping, I can
remember quite plainly how she used
to push the little pile of straw back
into the corner under the bed, Need
less to say that after mother recovered
from her illness the hired girl was
given a very short notice to pack her
“duds and git,” "
Grandmother used to have the soft
est feather beds in the district. It was
always a treat to get spending a few
days at her house. Climbing into bed
.... it seemed as if you were scramb
ling up on top of a partly inflated
balloon the way they used to billow
out around you-. Grandmother would
come tip-toeing up the stairs softly
with the lamp in her hand. I can see
her yet. Edging in the door quietly
she would set the lamp down on the
chair and tuck the quilts in under the
feather mattress. Then shoving’ the
quilts up close around my shoulders
she- would stoop down and her lips
would give a quick “feather-touch”
, kiss on my forehead.
Feather ticks were great in winter
time. They were warm and pleasant
to sleep in but during the summer
time it was an entirely different mat
ter. On an evening when the weather
was sultry and hot the ticks were
quite apt to make you feel as if you
were roasting. Every time you turned
the tick seemed, to conform to your
shape and bury you a littfe deeper
in its smothering density. The feath
ers had a way of coming through the
ticking and it was not unusual to get
up in the morning with feathers clust
ering to your skin where you had been
sweating.
Uncle Josh’s daughter Miliy is a
school teacher. She has been living
away off in the city for a long time
now and more or less away from all
our country customs. Last Christmas
Josh was in the village one day and
the station agent told him that there
was a large parcel for him down at
the station. Josh drove down with the
sleigh and looked at the strange flat
bundle. Josh always was a curious
sort of fellow and so he had to peek
'in at the contents of the parcel.
It turned out to be a mattress . . .
one of those springy, soft kind which
are designed to give you your full
beauty sleep. Josh was pleased beyond
words and he drove away off whist
ling to beat the band. I didn’t see him
for some time but one day he came
to Lazy Meadows and we chanced to
ask him about the mattress which it
developed his daughter had sent him.
“I have been getting up at five
o’clock since I was a boy,” he said.
“Never missed one single morning
•until we got that new-fangled mattress.
I slept in until eight o’clock the next
day. Mrs. Josh took it. off our bed and
put it on the spare one. She says that
the old straw tick is good enough foe
us. The truth of the matter is, the
straw tick is so uncomfortable that
when you wake up in the morning
there’s nothing to do except get up
or else get a pain in your back from
lying on it. When I quit farming and
don’t have to get up in the morning,
I’m going to sleep on that fancy mat
tress for days arid never get up at all.”
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ing and good understanding. Cities people across Canada have learned j inion from the Atlantic Coast of Nova
and towns were relatively small, something of the farm problem at first • Scotia to the Selkirk Mountains in->
Every Canadian knew and understood hand by doing farm work in their holi-; British Golumbia.
urban life and' farm life. ' 1
It was a time when people chose to
live on farms or in towns because of value to the war effort and the farm- 1 ranges, snowcapped and festooned,
same ers arc grateful for every hour of the with hanging glaciers, beautiful val
leys, sparkling lakes, sandy beaches,
►g streams, green forests, and'
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I days. I In these areas may be enjoyed the
j This casual labor has been of great attractions of majestic mountain
their personal tastes. The
amount of money and equal industry work done, but farm production can-
and skill would produce similar re- not be maintained with casual or un- ’ tumblin
turns in the towns and on the farms, skilled labor. It must be worth while picturesque stretches by the sea. As
It was not a time when city people for farm boys and girls and skilled wild life sanctuaries, the national
got two or three times as much for , workers to stay on the farms and pro- • parks are also serving as vast outdoor
their, work and for their capital as duce food if we are to keep production museums, where the fauna and flora
they do in cities today. While the abreast 'of need. ; may be seen and studied in its nat
ion hour day has changed to the eight j The cost-of-living bonus which is Ural state.
hour day, and the sixty hour week has | being paid by order of the government , The national parks of Canada re
shortened to the forty-eight or the to industrial workers is based on the present a great natural resource which,
.forty or the thirty-six hour week in highest wages paid from 1926—1940.
cities, the twelve to sixteen hour day Thus urban workers are receiving the
and the seven day week have remained highest wage rates ever paid, to them
in fujl effect on the farm the year and with full time employment and
round.
Then why do people stay on farms? are fatter than they have ever been
The answer is that they don’t and they before,
won’t when work is available in the ,
cities as it is now. The young people
leave the farms when they can lead
an easier, better-paid life in the city.
A food supply problem that has been
acute since early summer is the lack
of farm help. Every day appeals were ;
issued for more ,n *4,n •
crops. Thousands
much overtime their pay envelopes
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with reasonable care, cannot be de
pleted by use. They are also an im
portant economic asset in war time
both from the standpoint of the health
of the nation .and as an attraction to
American tourists who bring with,
them dollars much needed for Can
ada’s war purchases in the United
States. It is estimated that more than
half the total population of the Unit
ed States travel for recreation, edu
cation and enjoyment each year. In a
vast wave they spread over the North
. American continent, visiting their
national
monuments, and historic shrines. Many
include in their itinerary the counter
part of these places of interest in.
Canada—where they arc sure of a
friendly welcome.
The usefulness of the national parks
ns pleasure and health-giving resorts
ts becoming more and more recog
nized. This is evident from the rapid
growth in attendance during the past
few years.
system
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lionists
scious
number
be expi
No such condition exists for farm
ers. The higher urban wages have in
creased the cost of what farmers buy
and, despite increases in the prices of
food, farmers are still receiving less
net income than they received in 1926
-1929.
help to save the ’ The immediate food supply problem own great national jfarks,
of town young is to restore the balance between ur-
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iTHE NATIONAL
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j Among Canada's greatest tourist
I attractions are her National Parks,
areas of outstanding beauty and inter
net aside by
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instituted more t
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Imineral springs at Banff in the Rocky
i Mountains was set aside in 1885 as a
• public possession. Other additions in
the region formed the nucleus of the
great chain of national playgrounds
which now stretches across the Dorn-
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