The Clinton News Record, 1942-02-19, Page 6PAGE
Facts A'
Canada
LAST SPANISH EXPLORATION
At Point Grey on Marine Drive
one mile west of Vancouver, B.C., a
cut stone monument and table, erected
by the Department of Mines and Res-
ources coanmenanorates-the first friend
ly meeting of. British and Spanish ex-
plorera off the coast of British. Col-
umbia almost 150years ago.,
In the! eiglhteenth century SPain
'claimed the sovereignty of all the
western coast of America. Aroused by
-the activities of the Russians in Al-
aska and of the British traders far-
ther south ,the Spaniards; in support
of their claim, established in 1789 a
settlement at Nootka Sound, on the
west coast of Vancouver Island,, from
there they despatched! numerous ex-
ploring expeditions to the north and
to the south. They directed much of
their attention to the Strait of Juan
de Fuca which, it was thought, might
lead to a passage to the Atlantic.
After unsuccessful attempts in 1790
and 1791, the Spaniard's sent out their
schooners "Sutil" and "Mexicana"
under Captains Galiano and Valdes
front. Nootka in June 1792, to corn-
' plete the examination of the strait.
About this time, the British sent
' Captain George Vancouver to inves-
tigate the situation at Nootka Sound,
and also to make an accurate survey
of the coast northwards from. the 30th
degree of north latitude. Aboard the
"Discovery" and the "Chatham," Van-
• couver's expedition sailed half -way
round the world ,touching at the Cape
of Good Hope and visiting Australia,
New Zealand, and Tahiti, before rea-
ching Nootka Sound.
After the necessary formalities at
Nootka, Vancouver also examined the
Straits of Juan de Fuca., and sailed
on into the Strait of Georgia, where
on June 22, 1792 he met the Spanish
expedition, near Point Grey. He and
the Spanish commanders, discussed
the task freely and amicably, and de-
cided to work together. In company
they proceeded up the Strait of Geor-
gia and together examined the main-
land side as far as Bute Inlet, compar-
ing their observations and exchanging
information. The Spaniards proved to
be slower sailors than the British,
and after Vancouver's officers had
found an exit to the ocean by way of
Seymour Narrows the ships separated.
Vancouver passed out to Queen Char-
lotto.Sound by the route his, men had
discovered, and the Spaniards pursued
their course to the same sound by the
more easterly channels.
The meeting of the English and
Spanish officers near Point Grey was
a momentous event in the history of
the Pacific coast. Spain was then on
the verge of abandoning the last sha-
dow of her claims, while Britain was
strengthening hers by Vancouver's
• great work.
V
ANOTHER NEW CANADIAN
INDUSTRY
A tragic incentive for inventive
genius is war! The maelstrom of ev-
ents comprising the last two years has
Shawn the capricious public eyes to
focus with ever-increasing interest
upon a comparatively small, unassum-
ing group ,of men at their labours.
Mass interest is usually inspired
by either curiosity or selfish concern,
and in. this ease it is doubtless the
latter. Necessity is still the Mother
of Invention, and with disaster star-
ing mankind in. the face, the Necessity
for Invention has become dire indeed.
So, true to character ,we suddenly
take a keen interest in those of our
CHURCH DIRECTORY
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
2.30 p.m.—Sunday School
7 p.m. -Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at 8 pm.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer.
2.30 p.m. Sunday School.
•7' p.m. -Evening Prayer.
THE SALVATION ARMY
Mrs. Envoy Wright
3 p.m. — Sunday School
7 p.m. — Salvation Meeting
fellows who are, fortunately for us,
possessed of uncommon skill and in-
genuity in origination. That this
creative factulty of thers should be
deflected from the holy paths of the
pursuit of greater happiness for the
genus home into a death struggle to
outwit a heinous enemy, is a mocking•
quirk of circumstances.
Indicative of this newly aroused in-
terest in research and, science is the
recent opening of Canada's one and
only optical plant. Located at Lea-
side, a Toronto suburb, "Research
Enterprises," as it is called, is one of
a dozen government-owned companies
producing vital war materials. A cul-
mination of a vision .of Lt. Gen. A. G.'
L. McNaughton, who had been advo-
cating the, production of optical glass
in Canada for some time, the new
plant produces weapons of war that
have played and will yet play a decid-
ed part in the conflict engaging the
nations of .the world at the present
time.
Delicate instruments of war, used
by all three branches' of the service
are fashioned by skilled craftsmen in
this plant, One•of these new devices
is known as` a "radiolocator," which
reveals the approach of enemy air-
craft long before it could be detected
by previous method's. By thus elim-
inating the surprise element in at-
tack, counter offensive measures can
be taken before the enemy reaches its
objective.
Using the approved method's of one
of the oldest producers of optical
glass in the world, namely the Chance
Brothers of England ,the new plant
produces • many instruments that have
been painstakingly worked out by
various members of the National Re-
search Council. It is most important,
of course, that the raw materials that
go into the making. of the optical
glass be of the highest quality and
purity. After the engredients are
thorouhtly mixed by hand, they are
loaded into huge clay pots, which hold
about 2,000 pounds. After some 24
to 36 hours in the melting furnace and
while the molten glass is at a tem-
perature approximating 600 degrees
centigrade,: the pots are suddenly chil-
led. In about 48 hours the clay pots
are broken from the solid mass, and
chunks, of the glass are examined for
flaws and impurities. After various
operations of remoldings
ing, grinding and annealing some 500
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rev. G. G. Burton, IMA., BID.
12,00 a.m.—Sunday School.
• 11 a.m.—Divine Worship
2.00 p.m. Turner's Church Ser-
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
Rev. Andrew Lane, B.A., B.D.
11 a.m.--Divine Worship
7 p.n.-Evening Worship.
Sunday School at conclusion d
morning service.
PRESIBYTERIAN: CHURCH
'S sn a Y ` School 10 a.m
i d
Worship Service 11 a m
8 path Worship Service at Bayfield
' 2 p.m.—Sunday School. Bayfield
THE
pounds of good usable optical glass,
is obtained at each melt.
This plant, one of the most recent
additions to Canada's rapidly growing
defence programme Was officially op-
ened my Minister. of Munitions and
Supply, Hon. C. 1). Howe, on July
of this year.
V
POSSDBLE NEW SOURCE OF .
TUNGSTEN,'
Tungsten bearing. veins discovered
during the past two years, in the
Yellowknife -Beaulieu River area,
Northwest Territories ,are regarded'
by two geologists of the Department
of Mines and Resources who recently
examined therm, as a possible source
of substantial qualities of tugsten, an
urgently needed alloy metal. Ap-
proximately half of the 4,000 -square
mile region is underlain by rocks in
which .scheelite, the tugsten-bearing
mineral, might occur, ands within
these rocks 400 or more veins con-
taining varying amounts of tungsten
have already been found. Sb far on-
ly about five per cent of the favour-
able ground has been carefully pros-
pected for scheelite.
Most• of the two hundred or more
scheelite veins examined lie within
ten miles of Gilmour Lake, which is
45 miles east of Yellowknife settle-
ment. 'None of them is sufficiently
large or rich to mine profitably fo
tungsten alone, but by certain altera-
tions • in the equipment of one or mar
of the gold milling plants in opera
tion, or to be erected in the region
high grade scheelite concentrat
could be recovered. Some arrangs
rents are under consideration by tit
companies or syndicates concern
and any action taken will depend lar
gely upon assay returns from sample,
already collected or being collected.
Scheelite vus first indentified i
the region in 1939 in the Con mine i
veins being mined for gold, and i
the following year twenty tungsten
bearing veins were discovered neo
Gilmour Lake. It was not until 1941
however, that coneerted efforts wer
made to search for and develops tun
gsten-bearing deposits. No viens o
an obviously commercial character
were discovered during this' summer',
field work, but the many occurrences
within the small area intensively
prospected are a favourable indica-
tion that there may be commercial
deposits in the region, and according
ly it is recommended for further
careful prospecting.
Tungsten is used chiefly in making
of cutting tools and of high quality
steel. Canada production of scheelite
at present comes largely front cer-
tain gold, mines in Ontario and Que-
bec and from tungsten properties' in
British Columbia, but the output
meets only a small fraction of the
domestic requirements.
Canae ian Troops in England Make Many
Friends, Have Good Record ? ? ?
This is the ninth in the series of
articles written by Hugh Templin, of
the Fergus News -Record ,exclusively
for the weekly newspapers of Canada.
Mr. Templin flew to Britain as a
guest of the British Council and was
given an opportunity to see what is
being done in Britain in wartime.
It was natural that a Canadian on
a visit to Britain should want to see
as much as possible of the Canadian
Army overseas. Some of the Canadian
editors had sons or brothers in the
service, Every one had lists of ad-
dresses of boys from home.
Actually, it wasn't so easy to find
any individual soldier. The Canadian
units are 'scatter'ed over much of the
southern part of England, and while
I was there, they were taking part, in
large-scale manoeuvres, the bulk of
the Canadian Corps moving around
London and up towards the coast to
meet a pretended'. invasion. It was in-
teresting to see this large army on
the move, but hard to locate units• or
individuals.
A few days after I arrived in Lon-
don, a rather unpleasant incident oc-
curred.
The first six editors reached the
city late • on Saturday'night. We were
met by E. D. O'Brien, of the British
Council, who steered us through the
blackout to the -Savoy, got us settled
in our rooms and by ten o'clock, had
us sitting clown to dinner, at the table
reserved for us in the grill room. We
had hardly begun to eat before a re-
porter edged himself into the circle,
proceeded! to order himself a meal at
the expense of our hosts, topped it
off with a bottle of whiskey and pro-
ceeded to "interview" me because he
was beside me. It was an exhibition
of nerve sueh, as I had seldom beheld,
sand: I suspect our host seethed inside,
but did not want to say anything in
front, of his guests. As the bottle got.
lower, I wondered! what the interview
was' going to sound like
As it turned out, it wasn't as bad
as it might have been, but any name
Was spread ever Britain as .the' editor
of a great group, of weekly papers,
stretching from coast;., to ' coast.'
That.brought in what the radio, and
movie people would call, "fan mail,"
but which might more properly 'have
been called "letters to' the editor."'
!One. of them was: a scu•iilou post
card denouncing the conduct of the
Canadian troops in Britain. The wri-
CTUNTON NEWS -RECORD
ter said he was coming to the Savoy
the next morning to, tell me all about
thein. I made enquiries, found that
the writer was an Australian in Lon-
don, not too well thought of himself
and a bit of a crank. The English
people resented what he had done.
The man turned up next day, but I
made sure I was away at the time.
Troops Have Excellent Record
After that, 1 macre it my particular
business, wherever I went, to ask
about the Carnelian boys in England.
I received answers from high and, low.
I slipped away from the group and
talked with the Ehglish people in
their gardens. I got official figures
from. Canadian Ariny Headquarters. I
talked with civilians and Ehglish sol-
diers. Before I left London, I had
satisfied myself beyond any doubt,
The record is not perfect, of coures,
but there were few serious crimes or
misdemeanors. I learned little bad
and much good. The one definite epi-
sode in which a group of Canadian
soldiers took part rather amused. me,
though perhaps I should have been
shocked.
The British people cannot speak
too highly of the Canadians. Many of
our soldiers ase billeted .in private
houses, especially east of London in
the villages near the Thames. These
boys have been adopted as members
of the families.
One d'ay, during manoeuvres at Al-
,d'ershot,•I went along the street ask-
ing the residents what they thought
of the Canadians. I asked if they had
any complaints, if there had been any
trouble. Almost invariably, they had
nothing but praise. I never heard' any
criticism of the Second Division,
which was in the district at the time,
although there was seine of another
division which had been there, earlier
Aldershot has probably seen more of
the Canadians than any other town.
The best authority is doubtless the
Provost Marshall of the Canadian
Headquarters staff. I had dinner with
him one night at the quaint old East
Indies and. Sporting Club in London.
He gave me comparative figures. It
might, be expected that the record o:f
the English Regiments, _ living near
their own homes, would be better'
than that .of the Canadians. Actually;
it isn't. Crime among..the soldiers' of
the Canadian Corps is only one-third
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to the, prevalent in proportion,
number enlisted, as in the Imperial
Forces. In spite of driving Conditions
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offers for public subscription
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Minister of Finance.
Department of Finance,
Ottawa, 14th February 1942..
that are strange to Canadians, the
highway accident records of Canad-
ians is better in proportion to the
number of vehicles. Investigation of
accidents showed that there was a
tendency to blame the Canadians for
more than their share. For instance,
a woman called up one day to say
that a Canadian Army vehicle had
damaged her fence. Asked how ,she
knew it was Canadian, she said it had
a hippopotamus painted on the side.
It was explained to her that the hip-
popotamus was not a Canadian animal
the vehicle belonged to another Do-
minion.
A Few Actual Incidents
Perhaps a few simple stories will
illustrate the attitude of the English
people to the Canadians. -
In a small city near London, friends
called a taxi to take me to the rail-
way station in the blackout. When
the driver arrived and! found I was
a Canadian, he asked if I would mind
if he went around by tris' house and
brought his wife along: she would
like to talk to _a Canadian. When I
left them at the station, he would not
accept a penny from me.
'Waiting :for the train in that sane
station, I talked! to 'three English
Aircraftmen in the R.A.F'. They were
loud in their praise of the Canadians
because of an incident that hist jest
happened'. They had ordered luncb.
at the refreshment counter. Service
was slow. An English Major 00010
along after their orders were ni and
insisted on being served :first, • The
girl at the counter refused. A hit ,of
an argument bad risen till it was
settled by' an R.G'.A.F• officer of high-
er rank who took the part 'o:f the boys.
MID
He had given. the Major a bit of a
lecture. "After all," he couctlucledp
"we are all fighting for the same
King."
One night ,the London Standard
had a cartoon. It showed an English
girl, rather embarrassed ,introducing
a young R.C.A.F. man to her parents.
.with the words, "I picked himup a-
long the road." The next day, I sat
beside the editor of the Standard: at
a luncheon. II told me the story.
He' and his wife had been driving
to the country home the previous Sun-
day. Along the road they caught up
to a young couple with their thumbs
up. Hitch-hickers are not common in
England but one had an R.C.A.F, uni-
form so they stopped to pick then. up:
Tliey learned that the girl had just
met the Canadian. In fact, it was his
first week in England. She invited
him to her home and he accepted. As
they neared the place where she was
to get out, she began to have doubts'.
Perhaps he wouldn't ' be welcomed.
The editor was a good sport. He of-
fered to take the Canadian to his
home and that was agreed upon. but
as the girl got ready to go, she chan-
ged her mind. She wouldn't give hint
up, no matter what her parents said.
So he went along with her.
I have already mentioned the warm
reception givenus at Coventry. When
a large part of that city was wiped
out, most residents escaped with their.
lives but little else. Canadian gar-
ments clothed the people; Canadian
travelling kitchens fed .them; Can-
adian medical supplies were used to
ease their pain. Standing in the midst
of the ruins• of Conventry Cathedral,
the Provost presented to each Ca.-
adianeditor a priceless souvenir, a
cross made of two ancient nails pierc-
ed up among the ruins.
Actually, every person I met had
high praise for Canada and Canadians
—and it was sincere, not merely 0
polite gesture. Many of them had vis-
ited Canada. There was Lord River-
dale, head of a great steel company,
who knew my own town of Fergus;
Sir Harry. Brittain, who askedpar-
ticularly about Acton, Ontario, be-
cause lie had visited there, los home
,being in Acton, England; Winston
Churchill, who promised to visit Can-
ada again as soon as he could, a pro-
mise since carried out; James Bone,
London editor of the Manchester
Guardian, who lost his clothes when
his boat wastorpedoed as he returned
from Canada; and the taxi driver who
used to work at Jasper Park and be-
lieved it was the most beautiful spot
on earth.
Canadian Soldiers and English Girls
Many Canadian soldiers are marry-
ing
arrying English girls. That is not surpris-
ing, but few in Canada realize how
many weddings there have been. The
com mandiiig officer of a' Western
'Ontario battalion told me that 100 of
his men had married English and
Scottish girls. He said they were
good girls, of the best types, for he
insisted on interviewing every one
before he gave his permission for the
marriage to take place.
Now that is something that Can-
adian relatives of soldiers and parti-
cularly Canadian girls, should not
overlook. B. K. Sandwell, who was
with me, believes that a certain
"glamour" surrounds Canadians in
Britain. He ascribes this in partto
the movies and novels. Perhaps lie is
right. At a big aircraft factory, I saw
Buy TIie New
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a girl sitting at a table reading a
paper covered novel, entitled, "Love
in the North," On the cover was a
huge Canadian youth dressed in fur
parka, hugging a beautiful girl, while:
the auroro borealis made a brilliant
background. Bishop Renison who has,
,spent much of his life in the North,
was much amused.
1 think there is a more practical;
side to it than that. The English be-.
lieve we live in a land of plenty and!
wealth. Just now, when we eat muchy
they can't get, that idea spreads. A.
C'anad'ian is considered a "catch,"
and from what I saw on the streets
and elsewhere, English girls are out..
to "get their man" in wartime.
From 'the s'oldier's point of view,
believe loneliness plays a part. The,
boys don't get enough letters from.,
home. Perhaps they get plenty at first
but the number falls off. Some don't
get any. They want the news from
hone, but, even more ,they want to
think that they haven't been forgot-
ten. They need letters even snore than .
they need parcels—newsy, gossipy let--
trs telling what people at home are.
doing. And they like the 1honme town,
newspapers, which pass from hand to,
hand. Councils' or service clubs would'
be doing good acts if they would sub-,
scribe for the local paper for all boys,
from their towns who are overseas.,
Parcels are appreciated'., of course...
The troops are adequately fed, but,
they get few luxuries. Remember that
when yoq send parceis•.'Seme things.
are luxuries' in England that are plen-
tiful here. Candies are most welcome.
I saw candies only twice in England
and they were really confections, not
real candies. I would! have given much
for some real ones. Send potted fancy
meats and, cheese, !marmalade and
jams in tins (notglasses), braces and •
garters and razor blades.
Illustrated .magazines, such. as Life,
are hea-?y to send, but are most wet-
come. Send a; few of them to your -
soldiers, or to Mr, A. Savaard, C'an.
adian Army Headquarters, Cocks un
Stn eet, London
But remember. ,letters are best of•
all, There can't be too many of them,_