Page Ten Camp Adair Sentry Thursday, March 11, 1943. ' finally acquired title to the coun try in’ 1763, the French resident- were numerous enough to main tain their own racial integrity New they comprise one-third of the population. They live mostly i in Quebec province. They do not (This is the third in a series of the Canadian Rockies, has the big lock to France as their mother articles, giving highlight* in the gest rodeo (they call it a “stamp- : country although Montreal is the history of the United Nations). 1 ede”) in the world. British Colum- ! second largest French city in the | bra has a logging industry which world. First and foremost they are Canada and the United States i rivals our northwest. We even ! Canadians. French Canada is Cath- In other paits of the world th • ! have the same minorities settled in i jiic. children have grown up.with the the same areas: Germans in the The War Effort certain knowledge that, many of wheat country, Japanese in the Canada’s war effort ha.i been their neighbors are not their truck-gardening districts of the studded with achievement records. friend-, that war will inevitably I west coast. One of her most spectacular con- come to them as it has to their The two countries differ in the t’ibutions is the British Common fathers for generations. We, who distribution of their population. wealth air training plan. Working have never known the agony of \\ hereas the United States is now v’ith very limited facilities, Can instinctively distrusting our fel fairly well settled throughout, the ada now lias the best pilot fac low men, do not realize how lucky fringe of civilization in Canada tory in the world, capable of turn we are in having such agreeabl ■ runs in a 300-mile band along the ing out more than 30,000 graduates neighbor.-. The Canadian-Ame-- United States border. The north a year. By the end of 1940, air ican relationship is unique in the ern stretches are largely untouch dromes for 65 schools were com world. Two countries of such sim ed frontier land, vast stillnesses pleted, one more than had Leen or ilarity in size and natural resourc broken only by the occasional hunt iginally planned for the spring of es might well have become deadly er or trapper; more recently by the 1942. A thousand miles of tunways rivals. Instead we have the inspir noise of mine operations in the have been built, 2,000 buddings. ing spectacle of 4,000 miles of un newly developed radium area. Can Service blue appears on fortified frontier. adian summers are shorter, the streets of every town from Halifax The v.ar emergency has brought winters longer and colder than to Vancouver. A steady drone of the two countries into increasing-1 ours. Children still go to school training planes fills the air all day Canada Is Important Spoke in Allied Wheel Area. — 3,894,900 square miles (roughly the same size as the United States including her territories and dependencies). Population. — 11,419,000 (less than that of New York state). < apital. Ottawa, Ontario. Principal cities. — Montreal, Toron:o, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Quebec, Ottawa. Form of government. — rhe Dominion of Canada is a self-governing British nation. Both her federal and nine provincial governments conform to the British pattern. The- Parliament consists of a House of Commons, whose membership is elected for five-year terms, and a Senate whose members are appointed for life. The present Prime Minister is the Right Honorable William Lyon Mackenzie King. The representative of the King is a Governor- General, at present the Earl of Athlone. Provincial premiers and Igislatures have much the same powers as our state govern ments. Flag. — Red ground with Union Jack in upper left-hand corner, Canadian Arms in center. War contributions (July. J942). — Army, 475,000; navy, 34,000; air force, 120,000. Total volunteers for overseas, 500.000. Casualties, 5,500 (to the end of June, 1942). Food, 2,000,000,000 pounds (bacon, wheat, flour, cheese, eggs, honey). Raw mate- rtala, aluminum, nickel, asbestos, zinc, copper, lead, platinum, mica, ’mtphur. gold, pitchblende, wood pulp. Industrial ^produc tion, all kinds of munitions and war equipment. With one eleventh the population and one-sixteenth the national income, Canada early in 1942 was producing at one-fifth the rate of the United States. Money, 54 per cent of everyone's income. ly close cooperation. The first step in 40-below-zero weather. Sleighs was the permament joint defense anil dog sleds are common winter board, projected by Prime Minis conveyances. ter King and President Roosevelt The People nt Ogdesnburg, N.Y., in the sum Canadians show the traces of nier of 1940. The second imnoitant both their English heritage and step was the Hyde Park declur- American environment. Canada rt <.n of 194t which was designed grew up within the framework of to gear the economic war effort the British Empire. English tradi of both countries. This agreement tions are her traditions. Politi paved the way for the joint corn cally, Canada has remained tied to mittees on materials, ee« nom ¡CJ, the mother country. and war production which have But the Canadian way of life subsequently been established. is really the American way of life. The Country Canada has the world's highest There is a story that some Span standard of living next to ours. ish explorers who were searching They too are gadget users. There for geld in Canad finally cried ,n is an automobile and a telephone disgust "Aca Nada" "There is for every nine people. Sixty-six nothing here." These men didn't i preent of their homes have elec stay long enough. Canada is now tricity. They listen to our jazz the third goki-producing country Use our slang, eat the same food in the world. Her natural recources They are baseball fans although are rich although only partly de- hockey is their national sport vi loped. She has n virtual world They like to sit on the front porch monopoly of asbestos and nickel. »rd gossip the way we do. They Meat of the fur coats worn by join the same sort of organica American women originate in the tions. Their political beliefs p irui- Canadian forests. So does most of lei ours very closely. the wood pulp for our newspapers. Canadians combine British cau Canada has our same geographic tion with Yankee shrewdness. regions and the patterns of exist There is less divorce in Canada. ence in each region arc very simi There is more convention. Reli lar to ours. Life in the maritime gion plays a stronger part in their provinces is much like life in Now life than it does here. Canadian England. Quebec and New York Sundays ere quieter. Canadian state have dairy industries. Can share the American spirit of en ada’s manufacturing is centered in terprise With less than one per Ontario and western Quebec, just cent of the population, Canada has north of our middle-western indus mad« herself the fifth trading na trial centers. The* wheat farmers tion in the world. of Manitoba and Saskatchewan French Canada have the same droughts and dust Canada is the only country in storms, the same problem* of sur the western hemisphere that has plus production as our wheat two official languages and two dis- i farmers of Minnesota anti the Da-! tuict cultures Her earleist settler-- ; betas. Calgary, in the foothills of » re Freuchuien. When England . I and all night. Seven men out of ten in the air force have been war necessities. Gasoline has re- for discharge prior to May 1. 1943. Canadians, the rest from Great | cently been severely rationed. The (Commanding officers are author Britain, Australia, New Zealand, ' famous Mounties (who are now ized to extend the time in cases and many of the occupied coun- completely mechanized—gone are where the soldier did not have suf ■ tries. Canada has footed most of the days of the hard-riding, two- ficient opportunity to file his ap (4) lie must present I the bill, and it is a large one (esti gun heroes of childhood) have seen plication.) mated at $2,000,000,000). It costs to it that no sabotage has hindered written evidence that, if dis charged, he will be employed in 1 $21.000 to train a pilot. $22,000 for the production efforts. ' an observer, $8,750 for a wireless Canada's exports to England an essential industry, including air gunner. The course averages have doubled in the past two years. agriculture; (5) his release will 180 hours flying time to be com From nothing at all Canada has not seriously affect the efficiency pleted in 24 weeks. Even then the built a munitions industry which of the organization to which he is men are only semitrained and must turns out all forms of modern assigned. be gradually worked into combat weapons. Canada's women are fill units abroad. Q. Is it improper to wash the ing 20 percent of the 800.000 muni Two Canadian army corps are tions jobs. Canada is really rolling. American flag? now serving abroad. The Royal Ca A. Absolutely not. It is no dis nadian air force has flown with respect to wash or dry-clean an the RAF from London to Java. American flag. It is also proper to A thousand Canadians took part in mend the flag when torn, unless, the Cologne raid. Canada’s navy it is in such bad condition that it has jumped from a pre-war total Q. How much does it cost to would be a discredit to the owner of 15 ships to more than 400, her train a soldier 12 months? if displayed. naval manpower from 1,800 to ov A. The War Department esti er 34,000. Canadians, traditionally mates the cost for 12 months of Aphrodite. Without Nightie landlubbers, except the men of the full-time training for a soldier in Evansville, Ind. (CNS) — When maritime provinces, are now prov the U. S. Army is between $1,500 a “nut house” caught fire several ing themselves tough, able sea and $2,000—the difference in cost inmates took advantage of their men. Canadian corvetes and des is largely the difference between unexpected freedom. Two women troyers are taking an important training a foot soldier and a patients strolled around the area part in Atlantic convoy duty. mechanized soldier, the latter be- in the nude while a third, clad On the home front Canada faced ing costlier. only in a slip, swiped a bicycle the issue squarely and put herself and went for a ride. rapidly on a complete war footing. . Q. I m over 38 years old. How The government has complete con- | do I go about getting an honor- American farmers in 1942 pro trol over the domestic economy. In ! able discharge from the Army? duced 20 per cent more food than December 1941, a price ceiling was A. Here are the War Depart in 1939, but 13 per cent of it went placed over all costs including wag ment requirements: fl I The sol- to the United States armed forces es, rents, public utilities, and ser dier must attain his 38th birthday and to our allies. vices. Designs on all consumer on or before February 28, 1943; ----------------------------- goods are frozen to conserve ma (-) he must have enlisted or have | Use of steel-ringed timlier con- chine tools. Heavy industry is com been inducted into the Army on nectors to increase the strength of pletely converted to war produc or before February 28. 1943; (3) wood joints saved 400,000 tons of tion. Building is strictly limited to he must submit a written request steel in 1942. 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