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inis-{by gold on the north shore of[stepped into the education | and has largely replaced the Ro- mis-| still The Northwest Territories; The capital of the far morth Isis the fs Arctic's sprawl over 1,253,000 s quar e| Resolute Bay on Cornwallis is-|trative centre, a defence radar|Great Slave Lake and the fore- miles, surpassing the combined land, 1,700 miles north of Win-|base, port and international air-\runner of what northern vision-| bulk of Ontario, Quebec and the|nipeg. It acts as most northerly , Us schools, Eskimo|aries hope to see elsewhere. Atlantic Provinces. Most of its| RCAF station, main weather of- Rankin Inlet on the west coast 21,000 residents--including 8,000 fice, site for atmospheric re-|business community of Hudson Bay, 900 miles north Eskimos and 4,500 Indians--line|search and headquarters of the|runner of a pl d Winnip is an industrial site the 1,400-mile course of the Mac-|oil and gas search in the Arctic|to be built for several thousand plagued by declining caribou and kenzie River valley. islands in which applications| persons. the erratic value of the white a have been filed for exploration Its counterpart in the west in fox, the main Arctic fur, have SCATTERED COMMUNITIES permits on 106,000,000 acres. (the Mackenzie delta is the $32,-|turned successfully to nickel min- It has only about 80 communi- i Here men from the more re-(000000 site of Inuvik, the new|'ng. ties, reflecting the first economic Aklavik with modern sc v , forces of fur and whalers or the|mote weather stations drop ly iigings, sewer and 8 Wag 1d Saag, post, ones 2 latter-dzy influences of defence, every six months or 50 to have a|tems built on stilts atop perma-|son's Bay Company y Ho x aviation, weather forecasting and|beer, watch an old movie or get|frost north of the Arctic Circle,[RCMP ay som > 3 pa ) science, industry and education, |a haircut. Its northern affairs de-| Auavik in the delta ri ow 10. reasingl Misgiop: ry, economic--or badly needed --| The Yukon is the smaller off mu. oct norther PEAT nt partment school is the most emai 0 y $s a those resources prove to bejthe two by far, Its mountainous st northerly permanenti ot uy in Canada and its Es- fhe er trade beaduuariers for|school teacher, medical nurse or whether ofl and gas, iron ore, 205,000 square miles bordered by|settlement in the world is Alert,| i "0 iliage--brought there by alc west als Pon Sulth oat that Bw Arelis face. the Fgh gold, base metals or nickel. The|Alaska and the Arctic Oceanon the top tip of Ellesmere Is-|rejocation program--yields only Riyer is 8 'main et ave ern Jory. ol oes cal to chief problem is distance to po-|contain about 14,000 residents, (land beside Greenland. Its dozen-|t; Grise Fjord on lower Elles-| " ra ByeL up A mo adjust to tential markets or source of 12,500 of them non-Indian. odd men comprise a joint United|mere for that honor. own. 4 le anging conditions, ; equipment, labor and other eso AMED FOR GOLD States-Canadian weather station) Yellowknife is the largest cify, What of the Eskimo and In- sentials. ; 550 miles from the North Pole|PLANNED TOWN in the Territories with 3,500 peo-/dian? Eleven years -ago the Even the most, starry-eved vis-| It exists between a golden pastiang 2,500 miles north of Char- Frobisher Bay on Baffin island, (ple, a true industrial centre builtinorthern affairs department " |and a future colored prospec [Le 11,200 miles north of Fredericton, 12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, Mey 5, 1960 VANISHING FRONTIER Canadian North Faces Problems man Catholic and Anglican sion school. Many children are a fore- rh PLUMBING & HEATING BY ALBERT RANDALL & SONS 102A BYRON ST. SOUTH, WHITBY MO 8-299%, The search for oil and eon- structioc of radar warning systems have helped open the Canadian North but the vast area--nine-tenths of Canada's territory--remains largely un- populated. This story de- scribes the character of the North and the problems of developing it. jonary concedes that the highest| i : 4 By ARCH MacKENZIE ee rate of development wil ally, by the oil derrick, ig A Canadian Press Stal Weiler [leave huge stretches of T0CK.)i rst Yukon creeks have The Canadian North stilllyater, snow and muskeg with| elded $400,000,000 in gold ein beckons in an era of vanishing|liitle or no population; that only MEIN 1 of 98 gave it world earth-bound frontiers-----a mixture relatively small communities will| AR of rich promise and barrenness|ireckle much of the country, |? oa ; | as bleak as the dashed hopes of harvesting minerals. | Ne july cedtres of ely eco 16th centul adventurers Who tui | an awson, more liv eco- first ine Northwest Pas- The men and Women living 10-1 omically today than for some sage. |day in the two territories are a|years, still linger in the back-| in this|/blend of the old and new. Most|water of that boisterous age when PAINTING & WOOD FINISHING BY Congratulations to SHORT"S PHARMACY Compliments of . . . What is the *'north" ol northern country, its size, peo- are civil servants. Anthropolog-| Dawson boasted some 30,000 in-| ples, problems, rate of develop- | 1518 reckon that the eastern Arc-|habitants compared to 800 today. | ment and future? tic was the last place on the| Whitehorse, peopled by about Pat definitions are impossible, globe to be inhabited by man, |5.000, took over as territorial | even in size. Defined by climate, [Perhaps as recently as 4,000 or|capital in 1951 and a new spirit the true Arctic emerges as 28 per |,000 years ago when successivelof enterprise is based on more cent of Canada, a treeless land|emigrations from Asia finally roads, more tourists and an in- scarred by the still-retreating ice|rippled eastward to Greenland. [tensive hunt for oil that resulted Canada's 10,400 Eskimos are'last year in a well beyond the ONASICK & McMURTRY CONSULTING ENGINEERS TORONTO, ONT. cap where the average tempera-| 4 ture of the warmest month never their descendants. Arctic Circle, exceeds 50 degrees above zero. 416 BLOOR ST. EAST The southern limit wavering southward from Mackenzie River delta in western mainland toward grain port of Churchill, Man,,| and onward into northern Quebec and Labrador | VARIED TEMPERATURES The sub-Arctic is Canada's big-| gest zone with the same chill trademark of long cold winters) and temperature extremes rang-| ing from 100 degrees or more| above zero to 70 or more below. | The lower boundary halves New-| foundland, engulfs 80 per cent of | Quebec, two-thirds of Ontario and Manitoba, half of Saskatchewan | and Alberta and most of British) Columbia | Arctic and sub-Arctic thus de- For Short's Pharmacy SUPPLIED BY HAMILTON ONT. CONCRETE BLOCK | THOROLD BLOCK CO. ELECTRICAL WORK BY MURRAY EATON COLUMBUS GREEN DOOR PAINT & GIFT SHOP BROOKLIN OL 5-4531 Sennen Terrazzo Flooring BY | YORK MARBLE, TILE AND TERRAZZO CO. LTD. fined contain a fraction of the Canadian population, nine-tenths| 146 BRANDON AVE. TORONTO of her land, much of her infinite | variety of resources and a com-| plex set of development prob-| lems | But the public image of the North, nourished by the "vision" | of development preached by the Progressive Conservative govern-| ment, tends to single out that area north of the 60th parallel-- the 1,460,000 square miles in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. | A mere 35,000 people live in this 40 per cent of Canada, still in the pre-development stage. From the progress already made there is less concern right now| | about the finding of resources| than there is about marketing | them economically. Compliments to STONE FRONT OSHAWA OSHAWA NEED 1S KEY | Short's Pharmacy | NATURAL STONE PRODUCTS General Contractor FOR Short's Pharmacy WALTER SCHLEISS HARMONY RD. NORTH OSHAWA STEEL SUPPLIED BY FRANKEL STEEL CONSTRUCTION LIMITED HO 9-1161 TORONTO COMPLIMENTS TO Short's Pharmacy PLASTERING BY F. L. WHITTINGTON I | OSHAWA RA 3-3018 Growth rate, it's frankly ack-] nowledged, will depend on how Gl This modern building on the East side of the highway houses the latest addition to the shopping facilities of Brooklin. The outside concrete blocks are relieved with ""Shadowall" patterns in the block. The wide glass front framed in natural stone and Redwood pro- vides a clear view to the interior of the store. BROOKLIN ) OPENING THURSDAY MAY 5 SHORT'S PHARMACY, BRCOKLIN Brooklin's Newest And Finest Pharmacy SHORT'S PHARMACY The interior is bright and spacious with air condition- ing provided for summer comfort. 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