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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1949-09-23, Page 6sped R1 a to Nientagaea ixt Christian $elence. Monitor) 1 � „ tigericatrta are bound for allow a leer 1ntereet in caned/ea Far in the Monti* yeare, Blair the Porti 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 "e Murphy Paints Specify Murphy Paints and NARVO For your next paint job JOHN BACH Main St. Telephone 17 P1 FALL SALE OF USED PIANOS Such well-known makes as: • HEINTZMAN • MASONS RISCH • WEBER • NORDHEIMER • ETC. Special Prices and Terms during this Sale Write for list of bargains Heintzman & Co. Limited 242 DUNDAS ST. - J LONDON Asir 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 The STRATFORD and DISTRICT Hardware Association BRING YOU THE FOURTH OF A SERIES OF MONTHLY WORTHWHILE BARGAINS FROM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, UNTIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Food Chopper S1.59 Come in and See Our Complete and Seasonable Stocks of Quality Merchandise PROMPT AND COURTEOUS SERVICE' .1110161, BALDWIN Hardware PHONE 61, SEAFORTH E.fYS ALE Hardwire PHONE 11, HENSALI. 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 - 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. t Y t c m 0 f -a rL p b g u f t m E a b a Al a t a 0 A ti til 0 st a0 y��yF p�,'ry� y RC 71 4•T • ♦1 $li' t. R1^ r•'1T/+4000 F R t f. 111. f1 / R � �� i 9tjMyArf,1 {pr *00104' Mi5 R •R!S �ejh( M1 lorri� ,h • l+'R r R R•, T �. r gTt•: r#ton - r+ltc qVv t A • • • . Sept, lkfttchetl , A,••••.a. Soot, $7.33 SEAFORTH, Sept. 22.2$; St: Marra ' Oct. 5, 6 Teeawater .. • •; ... A ; Ott. 4. 5 Toronto (Royal Winter 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 - (Continued on Page 7) The mighty little Classified Ads. in The Huron Expositor bring best results. Phone 41, Seatorth. -w - Highest Cash Prices for DEAD STOCK Horses, $2.50 ea. Cattle, $2.50 ea. Hogs, .50 per cwt. According to Size and Condition Call Collect SEAFORTH 15 DARLING :. &;•COMPANY • ': bF CANADA,'IIMITED Upholstering Chesterfields and Occasional Chairs Repaired and • Recovered Factory Guarantee Free Pick-up and Delivery Stratford Upholstering .Co. 42 Brunswick St., Stratford For further information enquire at Box's Furniture Store SEAFORTH i 1?azgters acciau' ilia new $aper §4rg4 p + c ttl ne' .°6.64Y444!'tractor Lire tl�at .• ptjils ti3rottg where othek tire$•bog down is Acyl 'te$ again compeativeatires,Lit; got traFtors th>ott h slippery ground ander heavy drawbar pulls w qre.other , tires supped to a cotnplete stall: 4,,,}'�t aef� we'll show. you lAow thus'aew ttre can saye•,y"u time and moi e', SEAFORTH. PHONE;`141 CNEV--OLD$-4ALES AND SERVICE apse PEOPLE, RIVE • ON GOOD EAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER'KIND tn� • • EW 111 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 TORONTO REOINA 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 NOMMEN. MONCT'fSN ' ` UWiFI11140 YORKKTON SWIFT • CURRENT CALGARY BRANDON EDMONTON SASKCATOON VANCOUVER A A