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United; States now has a stake
the area Which stretches north,
ward from the international boun
dart' to the North. Pole.
Among other joint undertakings,
Canada and the United States have
now established a series of nine
weather stations among the Arctic
islands which stretch north of the
Canadian mainland.
The weatherman, whose findings
are a daily topic of conversation,
now has outposts within 660 miles
of the North Pole on Ellesmere
Island, opposite Greenland.
Weather experts have long want-
ed to know what happens in that
vast uninhabited area at the top of
the continent, for they have rea-
soned that many storms which hit
the central sections of the contin-
ent originate there. The pilot fly-
ing transcontinental and trans-
ocean routes, the farmer growing
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• WEBER
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• ETC.
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The newly elected president of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Roy M, Bean, of
Waterloo, Ont., is shown at right in this picture taken on.the grounds of Jasper Park Lodge in the
Canadian Rockies during the national convention. Left to right are: C. J. Altbon, of Springhill, N.S.;
past -president of the association; R. C. Vaughan, C.M.G., chairman and president, Canadian National
System; Lang Sands, of Mission City, B.C., 1st vice-president, C.W.N.A.; Walter S. Thompson, director
of public relations, C.N.R., and Mr. Bean.
wheat and fruit crops, the busi-
nessman worried about shipping
conditions—all rely largely on the
weather and have long been clam-
oring for better weather data far
enough in advance to do some-
thing about it.
Forecastsnow will include the
data daily obtained in the Far
North, and it will be possible to
map out storm areas farther in
advance than heretofore.
Continuous weather information
by radio is now flowing to the
headquarters of the Canadian
Meteorological Bureau at Toronto
and thence to Washington.
Canada has been developing its
Far North slowly over the past 30
years. Vast distances, small gov-
ernmental budgets due to lack of
interest, and lack of knowledge
about the country by legislators
and business alike, have hindered
development of the area which
lies roughly north of the 60th
parallel of latitude.
Canada's settled area is mainly
along the international border with
the United States, and in few cm-
; es goes more than a few hundred
miles north of that region. The
I northland has been relegated large-
ly as a vast land of ice and snow
and wild animals.
In, recent years that attitude has
changed. It took the airplane to
show the potentialities of the area
north of the settled fringe, and
Canadian' airmen have been flying
ever farther north since then,
taking in financiers and engineers,
who were followed by air with
prospectors and laborers.
Mining has resulted, waterpower
resources .have been found, oil to
serve the area has been located
just south of the Arctic Circle, and
the Far North has Lost much of its
distance. It is now being develop-
ed on an annually faster scale.
World War II enlarged greatly
the knowledge of the Far North,
though no battles were fought
there. In the darkest days of the
Battle of Britain, there was talk
of an invasion of Canada through
the Hudson Bay area by aerial
forces A• film was even produced
in England on a theoretical inva-
sion of the Far North by Germans.
But Canada and the United States
both used Canada's northland in a
big way and found they knew lit-
tle about its resources and poten-
tialities' in an air age,
Airfields were built across the
northland as an auxiliary route for
flying combat aircraft to Great Bri-
tain and for ferrying combat air-
craft to Alaska for the northwest-
ern defense zone and to supply
Russia with aircraft.
The small oil field on • the Mac-
kenzie River, which had been sup-
plying fur posts and a few mines
with fuel oil, boomed into the
Canol Project with production
greatly increased and a' pipe line
run to the Yukon town of White-
horse.
Tests of winterized service
equipment, tanks, jet planes, and
other army machinery have been
held at various points in the Far
North for the past few winters,
with Canadian, United States, Brit-
ish, Russian, and other government
observers at hand:
Treks have been made in winter
with mechanized equipment by
Canadian and United 'States ser -
ivicemen from Churchill on Hudson
Bay to the Alaska Highway in the
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Yukon Tt-ritory, adjoining Alaska.
Since the end of the war there
has been even a greater interest
in Canada's northland. American
and Canadian capital has ,been
pouring into new mining develop-
ments throughout the northland;
the Canadian Government has been
sending out each summer prospect-
ing parties to look for new miner-
al resources of all kinds, with
specific interest being shown in
finding new oil reserves and new
deposits of radium -bearing ores.
On the shores of Great Bear
Lake, just south of the Arctic Cir-
cle, a prospector in 1930 found
pitchblende ore, containing silver
and, more important, radium. That
mine has supplied considerable of
the uranium for the atom bomb
and is now a government-owned
property And it is hoped there
will be other such deposits in Can-
ada's northland.
Canada's northland can be
roughly divided into two areas:
that of the mainland, and .the
area of the islands stretching
north of the mainland. The is-
lands have been the least develop-
ed, are the least known. The
mainland far north, from the 60th
parallel of latitude north covers
about as much area as the four
western provinces of Alberta, Sas-
katchewan, Manitoba and British
Columbia.
Add the islands and you have
an area of 1,500,000 square miles
--with a total population by the
latest census, 1941, of about 17,000
whites, Indians, and Eskimoe. A
vast area with few persons and
o:ly slightly uncovered resolrrees.
But the resources which have
been uncovered show vast poten-
tialities. Fur is the best and long-
est known of its resources. Most
persons in the northland still make
their living trapping and hunting.
Fur posts are scattered at strategic
travel points throughout the north-
land, often separated by hundreds
of miles from other fur posts.
Furs today are flown out of the
area to reach fur auctions in Win-
nipeg, Montreal and New York
within weeks of the time the pelt
was skinned.
The whites, Indians and Eskimos
are as used to the airplane to bring
their needs as the city dweller is
to the truck. Eskimos have their
own gasoline -powered schooners,
live in wooden houses, own radios,
attend the hospitals scattered at a
few points in the northland.
Natives and whites receive the
family allowance payments which
are pari of Canada's social secur-
ity system .cr aiding lower income
families in raising their children
under 16 years of age.
The airplane primarily opened
up 'new areas to geologists and
prospectors, and resulted in a gold
mining boom which has not yet
reached its peal:. Gold camps have
sprung up in the northern unin-
habited parts of the provinces and
also in the Northwest Territories.
Best known is Yellowknife on
Great Slave Lake, a gold camp
with a postwar summer population
of about 2,000 people, electric
street -lighting, water -power devel-
opments to supply electricity for
he major mines.
Prospectors comb its surround -
ng area in the summer ,months,
and each year sees a few more
mines coming into production. The
ellowknife camp, six hours by
air from the nearest city, Edmon-
on, was discovered shortly before
Canada went to war in 1939 and
ould not be fully developed dur-
ng the war due to manpower and
achinery shortages. Now it and
ther gold camps are bringing
orth the needed metal for Can-
da's international trade.
In addition to gold, the Canadian
orthland has disgorged silver,
latinum, pitchblende, tantalum,
eryllium, molybdenite, and other
inerals. In ,the Arctic islands,
r'aphite, mica, manganese, platin -
m, nickel and silver have been
mind. On Baffin Island some of
he fur and police posts Use coal
fined locally by the whites and
skimos of the area.
Trees are scarce in most of
,anada's northland and unknown
n the Arctic islands. Enough lum-
er for local needs is found' in the
rea of northern Canada. closest to
aska. Here, also, some attempts
t farming have been made by
rapper's, missionaries, fur traders
nd other whites of the area.
The long hours of summer 'sun -
Trine, up to 22 hours nqr the
retic Circle, give fast growth to
lops of potatoes, green •beans, let -
tree, hay, some cereals and crab
pples.
Canadians have seen enough of
re .potentialities of the nerthlati
at they are ready to develop it
n a big •Beale. Hundreds of thrill
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ands of square miles of the area
e unmapped, and this summer a
art was made by the Royal Cana-
an Air Foie i' ii Wafting the
ountry i`r'om'�the air 'by means of
Oat photographs.
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Fair Nov. 15-23
This to@tlL,od has been. useti .with
auc&@ss 'in Canada ever since the'
end of Wold War 1 in mappixig
the settled areas and the >fot'therw,n
Sections of the. provinces. Now a
start has been made on the North-
west Territories, to be followed by
an aerial mapping job of the Arctic
islands.
Canadian and American busi-
nessmen and government officials
have 'formed a joint economic coun-
cil for studying development of the
northland, combining Alaska with
the Canadian Northwest Territor-
ies in the study.
That the northland is now closer
to the rest of Canada was shown
this summer. The annual govern-
ment supply steamer Nascopie ran
aground late in July off Baffin ss -
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IN THE PAST four years we added more than half a million
telephones and installed new equipment In every ex-
change in Ontario and Quebec. At the same time we were
able to make substantial improvements in service. But it
took a lot of money, over two hundred million dollars!
There remains much to be done! Many applicants are
still waiting for telephone service, and many more sub-
scribers' present service is not adequate to their needs.
We intend to meet their wishes, and to continue making
the service clearer, faster, better in every way.
This will take more millions for new equipment and
buildings. As in the past, this money must come from
the savings of thousands of Canadians who are willing to
invest in the telephone business. 1
THE BELL TELEPHONE
COMPANY OM CANADA
•
Serving Canadians
in Tawn and Country
It's an old saying that if you build a better
mousetrap, the world will beat a pathway to
your door ... but it's only partly true. Unless
somebody takes it out and shows it to the
,people who need mouse traps moat of therd,will
never hear about it.
It's the same with farin implements. Even
though Massey -Harris has been building
better and better farm machines for more than
100 years, thousands of ,Canadian farmers
would still be doing their work the hard way if
it weren't for the service of Massey -Harris
dealers.
Since the earliest days, the dealer (or "agent"
as he was once called) has performed a triple
service. He has served his/farm customers by
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selling them Machines that enable. them to
increase their yearly earnings. He has served
Massey -Harris by enlarging the distribution
of Massey -Harris products. And equally, he
has served his community, because increased
farm earnings result in better business for all
merchants, and in better homes, better schools,
better churches and hospitals.
The Massey -Harris dealer of today is as
modern in his methods as any merchant in
town. You find him in an up-to-date
building on ``Main Street" with a shoVvr000a
to display his streamlined machines and every
facility to serve the needs of mechanized
farming. He is one of the key businessmen of
the'community.
ASSEY-HARRI$
Established 1847
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