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~'HUR~DAY, APRIL 'Tt~i, 1949 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVTLLR. ONTARTO PAC~ WTI7U k _____ _________ _______ t j Here Just lu time for Easter Ioa a grand opportuulty to geltiihose Deir clothes and accessorles during our pre-Easter clearance sale at 01W both stores, The Glory Ann Shoppe and Atkbus Hoslery aud Lingerie. Corne in and sec the irnart uew styles and 10w prices tool SPECIAL! SUIT SALÉ! SPECIAL VAL UE! SHORTIE COATS For that go-everywhers coat you J" matcu' beat these solt wool flannel and featherwelght wool shortt. coats, Smnart, neat appearlug and practical. These are aU frorn our regular stock and very speclly prlced for thia Pre-Ester CuItured peari netkiaces . . . twinkling little scat- ter pins . . quaint OId. English earrings... scintillating rhinestones bracelets. Just a smatter- ing from our wide display of beautiful costume jewelry pieces to add a capricious note ta your spring attire! Beautiful new spring wool suits ini pastel and dark toneàb. They're ail beautifully tailored in the newest of styles. Here's a wonderful chance to get that new suit for Easter at a reol savingt BEGULAR $ 13.00 $9398 Other Suits in-beautiful Gabardine and Shepherd Checks -------------from $16.95 up Umbrellus! Every woman needs one of these for those show- ery Sprlng days. M..y styles anà colors to choose fromt $498 NYLONS! A well-kuown manufacturer Is discontinuing a complete lune of his first-quallty hosiery! We were tortunate to scoop theni up in their entlrety... offer them to you at the lowest hosiery prices in rnany a season! But better hurry! They won't last long at these pricesi 42 GAUGE------------ 45 GAUGE --------- 51 GAUGE ----- ------ 54 GAUGE ------------ $1.25 $ 1.50 $1.70 $2.25 The GlorY Atm Shoppes 57 King St. W. BOWMANVILLE (Across f rom The Statesman Office) Phone 363 Newfoundlanders are almost en- lars free of interest. The island's Inte estig Fa ts A outtirely of British or Irish descent. magnificent contribution in men Intre tin F cis Ab utDeeply religious, they beiong in and materias in the two great Cana a'sTenh P ovice-Romin Catholic, Anglican and Newfoundanders. Cana a"s enth Provnce-United Churches, and education is Whiie increasing emphasis bas on a denominational basis. Over been placed in recent years on de- Newfoundland 60,000 have their homes in St. velopment of forest, mining and ________John's, the capital, which is con- manufncturing production, the nected by shipping routes, rail or fishery is stili the most important The island Qf Newfoundiand lies XIth Century voyages to New- highway with most of the outlying factor in the life and economy of athwart the mouth of the St. foundland of hardy Basque and settlements. Corner Brook, the the island. This is best iilustrated Lawrence, its western shores div- Norse seamen. But Cabot's dis- new pulp and paper town on the by the fact that, except on the ided from the mainland by the covery was not followed by rapid West Coast, is also an important west eoast, there is a fishing vil- Strait of Belle Isle, nine miles settlemeni., largely because per- centre, with a population of some lage at îeast every ten miles aîong wide at itr narrowest point. In manent settiement was discourag- 12,000, incîuding adjacent areas. the coEst-line. Cod is the chief the south-west, across the Cabot ed in ihe earlier years. Grand Falls, another important product of the Newfoundland fish- Strait, Cape Breton is 60 miles John Cabot, himself, reported pulp and paper town, bas a popu- cries, but haddock, roscfish, hall- away. Newfoundland, separated the immense profusion of fish that lation of about haîf that number. but, hprring, salmon and lobster from the coast of Ireland by 1640 he found in the waters of New- There are a number of other towns are also caught in important quan- miles 'of the Atlantic Occan is foundlaind, and a steady stream of and s e ttlie me n ts distributcd tities Many of the wooden- Europe's nearcst port of caîl in shipping from England, France, around the coastal arca, many hulled fîshing schooners used by North America. And the Age of Spain and Portugal, was soon with quaint old-world names, the Newe0undlanders are built on Air Travel bas rendered this making its way to these promising rich in history and tradition. the island. During the war the geogrutphical position of supreme fishing grounds. By 1578, accord- A railway travereses the island government founded the shipyards importance - as the tremendous ing to the chronicler Hakiuyt, over but the principal means Of at Clarenville and buîlt ten wood- wartime devclopment and the 400 vessels were visiting the island coastal communication is stili en freighters of 300 tons cach. heavy post-war traffic o! Gander annuaily. They would sail for by sea. Facilities for air trans- Known locally as "The Splintgr Airport bear witness. Newfoundland each summer, land- portation were developed on an Fleet," these have proved f ii - A country of rugged coast-line, ing men only to sait and dry their extensive scale during the war mense value to thie economy of fromn which a multitude o! bays catch, and then they would return. ycars. the island, for they now enjoy a and inlets drive into the forcsts The English traders and ship-owtl- While production and industry good share o! the trade with the of the interior, a country of many crs, who maintained their priority have become more diversified in Atlantic coast towns and the Car- wide lakes and rockv. often on the island, discouragcd settie- recent years. for aimost four cen- ibbcan. ~oshy, upiands. NewfoundlandJ ment. Moreover, the fishery was turies Newfoundland's cconomnic Cod fishing is carried on inshore il.& rs an arca of 42,734 square regarded as a "nursery for sea- life depended on a single industry,J with hook and line or nets, or Ws. The great majority o! the men" to provide training for naval the fishery, and almost on a single whcn the cod are 'running,' with pole live 'within sght or sound recruits. And so for centuries product, dried cod. The depend- 'special traps. Then there is the or smell o! the sea'. and much of Nfld. rcmained t h e -g r e a t ence on outside markets with a deep sea fishing. Schooners o! up the country inland has scarccly ship roored near the fishing single staple for export made the to 150 tons go to the famous been cxplored. The Newfound- banks." Typical of this period wlis economny particuîarîy vulnerabie 'Banks,' which are the shoals off land climate is gentie for its lati- the Rule of the Fishing Admirais. to changes in world conditions, re- the south-east coast o! Ncwfound- tude; the temperature rarely fails By common consent the captain sulting in pcriods of economic land and Nova Scotia and the ren- below zero in winter, or riscs o! the first vessel to reach a re- crisis over the years. dzos0 ihre rmbt above eighty degrees in summer. cognizcd landing place was given Nefudadwspriual deos o thertlnc. The od The territory of Labrador com- jurisdiction for the fishing season hard hi by thewosrtiepr sion cofiL t hee tin getic. umers, priss sme 10,00 suaremils. ver ver' ariva thre.aftcr 1929, and a Royal Commission tempted by the vast supplies of tbc western boundary bcing the Neverthcless. in spite o! ahl re- in 1933~ recommended that the!i foodstu!fs brought by the Arctic watershed o! rîvers running into strictionîs, a number o! colonists Newfoundland Constitution be currents. Also, there is the La- the Atlantic Occan. Ini Labrador, did settie on the island. But it suspended and that powvers of brador fishing; each year 200 boats though the summers are rnild, the was not until the end o! the eight- government be vested in the Go'.- and 3,000 men spend the summer winters are bittcr and snow-bound 1 ecnth century that the population ernor and six Commissioners until ther. for the harsh, barren coast stret- 1 really began to grow» There were Newfoundland becamne seîf-sup.. And it is cod fishing that pro- ches northward into the Artic 80,000 Newfoundlanders accordîng porting The economical situation duces the most typical sight of Circle. to a census of 1814, and a repre- improved considerably during the the Newfoundland iandscape; the Ib was on June 24th, 1497, the sentative assembly was first es- war, iargeiy owing to hcavy allicd 'fish flakes' that surround the Day o! St. John the Baptist, that tablished in 1832. Then in 1855 defence expenditures. This made fishing towns and villages. These John Cabot, iicrchaiit-adventurer, Newfoundland achieved respon- possible a marked reduction in the are piatforms buiit on or juttin g of Bristo,, set foot on Newloulic- sible govcrnment, înaintaining this 1 national debt, as well as the valu- 'out from the shore, on whic'h the land. He thus becamne the first status for the next 79 ycars. able dcvelopmcnt of social ser-1 cod are dried, a!tcr they have European to niake officiai dis-1 Today there are over 320,0001 vices. It even allowed Newfounid- been split and salted. The fish coverN, o! North Amwerca. although people liv-ing in Neuwfounidland. land to lend the British gov.erni- are spread out one bv one in the legencLi abound. conlcernîng the wit.h some 5,000 in Labrador. The ment twelve million Canadian dol- mornig, and at t.he' end of the' day they are coliected into small 1 island. Part of the catch is used piles of "faggots." for cod bait, part is salted in bar- But since the end of the war an rels and exported. The salmon important new tendency has been fishers, however, operate over developing in the cod-fishing in wide areas. In May they begin dustry. The war itself brought to fish the sea inlets of the Avalon an urgent demand for frozen andI Peninsula, and by July they have chilled cod, haddock and rosefish,j worked their way far up the Lab- as opposed to sait cod, and New- rador coast. foundland fishing firms bought Since 1935 the fishing industry the equipment for the necessary bas enjoyed the protection and quick-freezing. In 1944 they dis- considerable assistance of the New- covered that there was a consid- foundland Fisheries Board, which erable demand for cod fillets ifl was established by the Commission the United States, and with their Government. One of its most plant so near the fishing grounds, valuable activities was the form- they were ideally situated to meet ation of a systematic marketing it. And so last year, for example, organiZation. Since 1947, how- some 16,000,000 lbs. of cod fillets ever, this function has been part- were exported as well as some ially taken over by the Newfound- 10,000,000 lbs. of other frozen or land Associated Fish Exporters chilled fish in filletted or round Limited, which is the sole market- state. ing agency for sait codfish. Un- Herring are caught close to the der the confederation agreement, Reller Seeds for Reier Crops To' ensure bigger crops for a hungry world, the Uulted Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ls now sending hybrid seed corn to 19 couutries in Europe and the Near East. In ltaly, for example, hybrid corn gives up to 50 percent better yields thau older types. Here members of FAO*s agricultural division pack hybrid seed for other countries sufferîng £rom food shortages. 1the activities of both these bodies' border with Quebec. Anothie- Sare guaranteed for the next five Ncwfouridland minerai centre is iyears. nt Buchans, a pureiy miining com- The past bwo years have secri munity in the centre of the island, a revival of the Ncwfoundlind I where there are important deposits seal-hunt, which the war had Of lead, zinc and copper. brought to a standstill. In 1948 Shortage of transport has a]- twenty-three vessels shared inJ ways be2n considered a major the hunt, and brought in 142,000 handicap to the internai deve'op- seais. This is perhpps the most ment of Newfoundland. Most O! hazardous occupation undertaken the road systems are limitea, b efoundianders, for the hunt- imme diate neighbourhood of the ers seek the ice instead o! avoid- town s, and for most communities ing it. Oftén they must walk the sea is the chief line o! com- several miles over the treacherous munication. However, through the icc-floes in scarch of the saals, systemnatic lnkcing up of the most and the record is long o! hcroic important centres, a trans-island rescues and of those who, caught highway is now being constructed. in sudden blizzards, have been The Newfoundland Railway, com- lsips.or they couîd regain their pletci in 1898, which operates on ships 1a nar owgptug, cro;ses the island The export values of the three from St. John's to Port aux flrs- major Newfoundiand industries ques, the customary landing piîcLo in 1947-8 were: fishery products, for visitors from Canada, but it $29,000,000; newsprint and paper, has few branch lines. The 547- $26,000,000, minerais, $16,000,000. 1 mile jouî ney takes 26 hours. And The greatcst risc over the prev- this probiem o! transport is one ious year was shown by newsprint reason why the impressive beauty and paper. nearly 25f/c, due to in- Of the Ncwfoundland landscape creased production as well as to is still so littie known among thc higher market prices. This in- lother peoples of North America, dustry is concentrated in two even though the island is a par- centres; at Grand Falls, in the adise for the fisherman and tne eastern hal! of the island, viherehut. the milis date from 1909, and at Newfoundland, 'Britain's Oldcst Corner Brook, on the we_t coast. Colony', has it history of great where the largest single inte.grated courage dnd determination; it has paper miii in the world was brcd a race o! men knowîî foundid in 1925. Together thcy throughout the world for their had a production in 1948 o! 457.- strength of character and their 000 tons. The vast bimber re- personal iritegrity. sources o! Newfoundiand free the' The union oi the two peoples o! industry from concern about an British North Amnerica, fortifie-1 eventual shortage of raw materiai. by common ideals and traditions, For many years copper was the marks the final stcp in the real- chie! minerai of Newfoundland, ization of tne hopes o! the Fathcrs the !irst mine having been opened of Confederaton and o! t:îcir in 864 bt te oe hcl t; ' t- vis on of a great nation staidillg o! the highest quality, had lost 1ts astride the Western Hemispiierf,. popuiarity by the turn o! the cen-; ______ tury. Today, iron ore la the most; important minerai product. There Helo the kids stay alive-whei is no smelting in Newfoundiand. you drive stay awake! but the mines of Bell Island, in________________ Conception Bay on the south castTI , S coast, Droduced 1,450,000 tons o! T I C K E R ore in 1948. The mines run far TOr, Eil rYWtamHER out undei the sea, and are kno wn AiRi r tasl to possess considerable untapped Con5suit reserves Labrador too may %vell J L Rt Y & L O V ELL prove a major source of iron ore, Bowmanvflle for part of the great Ungava field 15 King St. W. Phone 778 lieï un the Labrador &ide of 'the ___________ k ~ THE CAMADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANviLLZ oNTAItio PAGE PIVIC v M éMMâDAY, APRM 7th, 1049 GfecLto@o