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oo crowd thelr public thanksgiving into.
one day, nor.did they confine it to one

‘There was a festival of \ sevén days

' harvested, and a fourth,

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C. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30.1935 |.

NATIONAL ‘ THANKSGIVING. DAY

National Thanksgiving Day in Can
ada was observed..on Thursday, Oct.
4th. It is interesting to note that in
Canada. natfonal- thanksgiving for the
harvest dates back .fo remote’ ages:
Long before the whites came to ‘Can
ada, certain days were set apart for
public acknowledgment to the Great
Spirlt for abundant crops; The abor

ites and other rincient peoples, did ‘not |

vonson.- Besides the main _thanksgiv
ing in late fall or early winter for all
crops of the year, there were public].
eoremonies for thanks for. the rising
of the maple, for the ripening of fruits
and berries, and for the planting and |,
reaping of corn.

thy

The Huron and Traquolan nations

testivals throughont.- the, “year, eulmin
iting in the one. of‘ general appeal.

when the corn was green; a third fes
tival of four days when the corn was
the “great
mid winter festival of general thanks
riving.. | Certain elected officials were
They levied contri
butions of food from each household ;
they fixed the dates of the céremonies
-nd ehose the orators to open the pro
ceeding with . an appeal: to the Great
Spirit atid” a prayer: of gratitude . ‘to
the three sister goddesses, Corn, Beans,

The Objibwa, disually ‘celebrated’ the:
“midewin” in’ the: season of ripening’
fruits and berrie’, while on the Paeffic

the coming... of the salmon was. celebr

| ‘thanksgiving

With the wheat. ripening in Pales’
tine, the Israelites celebrated the feast

of Pentecost as their harvest: fesitval;

and Moses was commanded to appoint
and proclaim the day of thanksgiving.

“Three times thou shalt keep a feast:
on Me in the year. Thou shalt keep
the feast of unleavened bread. (seven
‘dqys) and the feast of the harvest, ‘the
first fruits of ‘thy lnhors which. thou
has sown in the field, and the feast of
the. ingathering which is in the end ‘of
the year, and when. thon has gathered |.
in thy labors out of the field. Three
time sin the year, all the males shall
appear before the. Lord God.”

~ In anélent Britain the Druids cele
brated their thanksgiving for harvest
on the last of November, and in later
years in: Britain. in pre Reformation
times, Lamas. Day (August i, Old
Style} was observed as the begixining
of harvest thanksgiv ine, each. member
of the church presenting 1 loaf made
from the new whent. .The Pilgrim
Fathers after their. first harvest at
Plymouth in 1621 set a day apart for
thanksgiving.. I¢ was not until 1680
in the Massachysetts colony that. the
festival heeaine ‘an annual one, -: Con
necticut: having previvus'y
el the annual observance as enrly as
1647. In the United States, President
Abraham Tiincolzi appointed the fourth,
Thursday in- November 1864 as thanks,
siving day ‘and ‘sinee. that .time each
succeeding president: has adopted the
sime date. In Cannlae with the ar
‘rivah of the French colonists. prior. to

.|the founding of New England farther

south,” the ohservanee. . of - harvest
thanksgiving awas celebrated necording
to. the’: rmibries of the. ‘church, and in,
recent. years the day of national]:
in: Caundaz chas.,been|

named by’

the’ Dominion Patlument.

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OF SOCKEYE SINCE 1931

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Dominion Department of Fisherfes

parent sockeye salmon to the Lakelse

since 198t.. The ‘Lakelse. aren ig ‘one

Pacific coast. ;

Sockeye egg collections at the Lakel
"se liatchery, operated. by the Dominion
flepartment, totalled 8,250,000, approx

iinately. 4,280. fish, being handled ‘by the

"| natchery people “tn securing the eggs

nnd ‘obtaining. fertilization. - The erg
total] seas greater by more than pt quar

year. roughly: 1, 900,000 ‘above 1933. and
2.400.000 larger than in 1932. It was

sockeye egg collection in 1981.
This was. the haichery some one in
the fishery ‘department. decided to put

local action was taken.

SHOULD CARRY A TAIL LIGHT.

Joe Fiynn of Lac la Hache is about
to take lessons in’ nature‘study. He

turkeys with intent to kill,

a rifle and fired—and. another Redskin

‘bit the dust, or words to that. effect.
His shot had connected with the tail

stooping over digging roots, and who
was partially consealed in
grass. She was taken .to the War
Memorial Hospital at Williams Lake.
Examination showed that the wound

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dng. to: Iniss, it. Never again, shell I

| haye. such a change to air my views on
‘ BO; many ‘subjects. of which I know so
little, and ‘hold the audience. Ive had

sueh’ as wonderful time eriticizing the

| cosmos, | Jambasting national ‘leaders,
roasting the, social sytem, ‘cutting the | -

inddstr ial pattern into -paper dolis and
the parapets. He ‘TI. Philips.

REDUCED: 1935 ‘POTATO CROP |

eG a result ofreduced acreage and

potatoes: showed n decrease. of” 20.3 per

‘cent compared :with 1934, according to
the tirstestimate
| Bureau. of Statistics.
| were planted to potatoes in each of the

of thé “Dominion
Lower acreages

nine provinces, “but ‘the reductions in
production * were confined to the Mari
times. and Hastern provinees and Brit,
ish Columbia. | Eaek of ‘the . prairte
provinces ' shows an increase -. yield

| the extremely poor harvest of 1984 the
{totn] increase for the three ‘provinces

amounting. to. 2,806,000 cwt. or 50 per
cent. "The crop in the Maritime is put
at 9,010,000 ewt.,. a reduction: of 6,205;
the prairie provinces: in cw. per acre,
win’ 70- (38) 5. Alberta’ us (56). The

potatoes. in-all. Canada in 1935 t) “be

507,006. acres,’ ‘compated with. 48,095000 -
cyt. or. a4 owt | “per “here, froni 560,200]. .
acres in, ‘yos4.., ‘The. saverage -yleld” per|~
‘acre ae mt five Years 1929 to: 1983

LAKELSE LAKE GETS BEST RUN

: Observations ‘by einployees of the].
this year indicated that the run’ of}.
Lake ‘spawning area was the largest .
of the important spawning areas ‘of the |.

. Tears
. years Glacier National Park, Mon--

ter of a million than it had been last |". -

only about 61,000 ‘smaller than ‘the; «

out of business the past summer until)

’ National Railways.

‘thought .he’ saw a coyote stalking his’. -
He seized,

piece of an old Indian woman who was’

the Jong],

owas ‘not’ serious—but the old lady will
i “ while,—Cariboo’

. the Dominion. ;
first known arrival on our shores, ::

When, the. depression is ended I'm £0.

taking a crack | at -wvery head raised |

: above
’ “the Vancouver. Hotel.

summer drought the 1935 production 'of | --

. gommon thing to ‘me,
always been a miracle.” A capa- .-

co cwt, or, 37 per cert The: yields in \
Saskntche,

fivst estimate’ shows the production, of |

Here and There

Our .

vanishing wildernesses

Lave for some time elicited the
concern of conservationists, but -
now science is bespeaking our.”

solicitude in behalf of some of
the glaciers which bid fair to
disappear’ within a few decades,

Jf scorching summers . succeeded
_ by. mild wintérs become the rule, *

-Dr. Franesis EB. Matthes, of the
United States Geological Survey,’
‘that within anothér 430-

tana, may be minus its glaciers.
Mount Rainier National Park,
. Washington, alsc has suffered
“from heat prostration. At no
time within the memory of liv-

ing persons has the recession, of -

the ice rivers in these areas been
£0 rapid as during the long-pre-
tracted heat wave of 1934, Lur-
ing normal winters snowfall, and
frigidity are wont to replace to a
large degree the melting snows of
. Bummer,

; Third annual. competition for
the most beautiful autumn-tinied

. Maple Leaf is announced by the
Conadian Government through

the Canadian Travel Bureau at.
Ottawa in co-operation with the
‘Canadian Pacific and Canadian
The prize
list for the 1935 eompetition pro-

' vides fora total of $200, of which

‘$100 goes to the person. . sending .
in the most beautiful leaf; a sec-.
ond prige of $40 and a third prize
of $20,

and for second largest $10 will be .

, awarded. »

“Steel of Empire,” the recently
‘published work by John Murray

Gibbon, while realiy the story of -

.the Canadian Pacific Railway, bas
so much of other Canadian his-
tory that it will find a permanent
Place as one of the outstanding
contributions to the records of
‘Starting with the

4 Chinaman, Hui Slen, in British -

- Columbia at the end of the fifth .
. century, ‘Mr. Gibson traces the —
romantic growth of the Canadian |
*- pacific, many centuries later, with

& wealth of incident and detail,

. the author's long association with -
. the railway having been of the
utmost value,

Possessing one of the finest ‘cole
lections in-the world of colored
pictures of scenes in the heart of ©
the Rocky Mouniains, T. H. Lons-
dale, of Banff, recently exhibited
them to. the Womén's Canadian
Club at an illustrated lecture at.
The pis-
tures included scenes of moun-
tains, valleys, Jakes dnd bird, ani-::

: mal’ and: flower, life.

’ Evangeline. Booth, 69-year-old .
-eommander-in-chief of: the Salva- -
tion Army, told the “story of the
Aymy” tothe Men; and Women’s

, Canadian Club at the Royal York -|'
- Hotel, Toronto, recently,
“porn in the Salvation Army,” she

T was

said, “but it -has never become. a
It haa.

city audience gave: her ail ovas *
tion. ‘ a

Keen, outdoor * man, . enthusias-
tlc member nnd past president of .
the Trail Riders’ of the Canadian
Rockies and:a leading stalwart in -

the ranks of the. Trail Hikers, ...
/J.-M. Wardle, chief ‘engineor, Nas: |
: tonal Parks of: Canada, has won -
_ well-deserved promotion ‘to the

post of deputy minister: of the

“Department of ‘the Interior, Ot ,
fava, whee,

Premier Dysart, of New "Bruns- “sh
“wick, was. the: chief “speaker, re- ©
: gently when-the City'of Saint: Joun :
gas 340,000: ‘owt: or’ %8. per acre © from’ la ee oe ty Saat ten New :
Brunswick's guides at ‘théelr two- || SF
‘converition. : | oe
Heavy fall: guiding afferted “at. “

-: tendance,. but,a. ‘good: membership: . .
“Sunder tha | ‘half fmarishiy. of: Wits |.
Yam: T, Grittin;’ of: ‘Bolestown,"pre-*:

day .. 37th annual

* ‘sldeht. of the Aasociition,' enjoyed
7 ‘successful ‘Sathoring.

In addition ‘a prize of .
-$80 for the leaf with largest area, .

yet,

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