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mpared with 22 in the vious~year. 'Wines: magitfac- fred had a.valtie of $1,624,742, of '¢} pi the Wworkt acs which Ontario "accounted for} cord fe Study made of $1,516,982" and.s.other, provitices compar bures. Canada's} $107,760. '8 Vbirth rate, F to the 'thousand, - eet oteerrTich Peeps L nes next with "Canadian fish. meal is" Being! 23.2 to ANS sand... England urgently Sought after by Gérman and Walés "fall slightly. below. importers'as a result of a short- | age in the usual sources of sup~} ply, a8 well as, rapid' adyance _ 117! prices," writes: Trade Commiss- ' ioner L..D..Wilgress, front Ham; burg. "The stocks in Germany! at the end of the summer were unusually low. Owing: to 'the hig prices of pork the farmers have been feeding larger quanti- ties of fish meal to the hogsithan customary during the summer months." Immigration ,to,.Canada in the| first ten, months of 1926, ran 63% hood of the similar speriod of last year. The total of new set- tlers was 122,848, as compared with 75,581. In the ten months in question British immigration rose from 32,297 to 45,073; Unit- ed States from 15,432 to 18,575, and that from other copntries from 27,852 to 59,200. Inthe ten months of 1926 a-total of 55,718 Canadians returned from the United States, having made per- manent homes there, as against 27,733 in the same ten months of 1925. Immigration to Canada in October, 1926, amounted to 10,013 as compared with 7,703 in Octo- ber, 1925--a 30% gain. The recent snowfalls have di- rected attention earlier than us- ual to the coming Dog-Derby-- the 1927- Eastern International Dog-Sled Derby--which is to be run off on February 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Six entries have been Lon, O others en- , of Berlin, up to-date. Ets, of revalvems as pe satiety) th<ra' leads' all France with 'f8.8. i: The Ontario"Goveriment's re- port. of Northern Ontario's gold prodtction for the first 10 months of 1926 shows an increase over the first 10 months of last year of over $1,100,000. ' Practically all this increase istaccounted for by th® gain of approximately $1,350,- 000 from Kirkland Lake, as a- gainst'a decrease of approximat- ely. $245,000 from Porcupine. Porcupine, however, is again ap- } , , g§ parently on the increase. In the month of October, gold output was ~$283}264, compared with $237.163 in October, 1925. oar o> POST OFFIC EINFORMATION The Post Office Department, in order to assist the mailing public, has gone to a great deal of trou- ble to gather material to ~help encourage the growth of business so that the whole community may benefit by increased trade. For an illustration we may say that booklets can be had for an Electoral Districts (Dominion) under the following headings : -- 1. Rural Mail Delivery Routes with the number of boxes on each route. Furnished free of cost. ; 2. Rural Post Offices with number of English and French householders receiving mail at each office. This includes box- holders as well as patrons of the general delivery. Furnished free received so tar: H. Chevrette, who will carry the colors of The of cost. cagon to t complete list cons 20c3 ricts' Wm tendent, Postal, Bay, Ont.) a "4. 'Nanes and ocd@pauons _ of householderssinyplaces other than cities arranged by electoral dist- ricts, $1.25 per district--or the ting of sixty- five booklets, $81.25. Persons wishing to do business by mail would'do well to get the required list from his' Postmaster. The merchants in this way can get into direct communication at a small cost with the prospective purchasers in their district. Classes for Prospectors Will Open Here Jan. 17th The prospectors' classes which are held annually. at various points in the North Country will open here on January 17th. For the past fe wyears Ht has been missed in this regard, but classes are to be resumed this winter. Prof. W. L. Goodwin will conduct the classes, which at 3 o'clock and those attending. Handicaps Have No Effect on Sandy's Smile Sandy is a cheerful sort of Scot with a ready joke and a nning smile although when you hear hissstory you will wonder waat it Is that keeps him ay. He was a soldier in the Great ar, where he lost an arm. , Then overwork knocked him out. Hils at- tempts to secure a pension have fall- ed, last but not least, the only trade he knows is- carriage-making, and who wants carriages now-a-days? For all that; Sandy is makifg good rogress at the Muskoka Hospital for Gonparptivess where everything is being done to make him well again. For with health Sandy says he can face the world with courage--and he will, too! Wouldn't you like to help the Mus- koka Hospital in such work as this? Your gift will be gratefully received, Contributions may be sent to Hon 3. Names of box-holders on eet Ww. A. Charlton, President, 223 College Street, Toronto 2, Ontario. The Winter Sports Centre of America ' Haileybury | will be held in Hotel Haileybury, both afternoon.and evening. The | afternoon sessions will commence the evening at 7.30 or 8. There is no charge for} View of "Bad Lands" of Alberta. (Iyset) "The majority of tourists who travel acros¥ the optn prairies on the Canadian Pacific line east of Cal- gary, are unaware as they look towatds the, north that there is to be found anything to interest them except the praites-and prairie towns. But not many miles distant from the rallway,-whee ed Deer River cuts through the prairie, lies a valley known as the "Bad Lands." This is a valley beside which the Rocky mountains are young--a valley ,whose bottom-lands record that once they were "an inland sea along whose shores, millions and millions of years ago, lived those walking, creeping, crawling monsters known as dinosaurs. Only with the discovery of the dinosaur skeletons, and as a result of the numerous expeditions sent into r the Bad Lands of the Red Deer by the Goverpment and by museums both in Canada and in the United States, has the river valley taken on a wider ingerest. Each season adds not only to the number of collect- ang parties but also to the number of tourists who re attracted by the picturesque character of the tan- yon and whose imagination is thrilled with the thought of the age-long secrets which the valley is beginning to make known. . ¥ When and how did these donosaurs live? What was the world like during the time when-they flour- ished? How would this very valley have appeared at that time and what other creatures were to 'be found there with them? Such questions naturally arise as the dinosaurs take on a larger medsure of reality. At first one is likely to think of all these extihct animals as merely prehistoric, living hundreds of years, of course, before even Tut-ankh-amen, but yer- haps at the same time as our cave-dwelling ancestors, with whem they may have contended for the mastary of the earth, The written records on which history is based extend hack, comparatively speaking, only a few centuries; even the oldest, those of Egypt and Chaldaea, cover but sixty centuries. The still earlier periods when man lived in savage and barbaric tribes take us back only one hundred thousand years, and as no fossil remains are found in strata of that date it is evident that these huge reptiles had long been Drawing of giant dinosaurs of past ages. extinct even at that time. In bigness these dinosaurs ave never been exceeded. The herbivorous group were the lar t; they browsed on the rushy vegeta- tion and am the ferns and bushes, or stood up and grasped trees with their fore-legs while they devoured the foliage.. Many of these were giraffe-like waders Whose tong forelimbs and immensely longer necks enabled them to take refige tn-deeper watrs. more out of reach of the fierce carnivores of une land? Zhe Diplodocus, a herbivorous dinosaur whose skeletc ry in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, measures eig seven feet in length, and a still more colossal ou. found later and known as Gigantosaurus measures well over one hundred feet. Xs he carnivorous or flesh-eating groups were not % so large; they were more active, however, and preyed upon the herbivores. Though equipped with frightful Weapons they were considerably inferior in intelli- gence to the modern crocodile or lizard and far below the bird or mammal, Of these, Tyrannosaurus seems almost "the last word in frightfulness." It reached the length of forty-seven feet, and in a standing posi- tion the animal was eighteen to twenty feet high as against twelve feet for the largest African elephant. The long deep powerful jaws were set with teeth from three to six inches long and an inch wide. To protect them from these flesh-eating dinosaurs, many of the herbivorous ones were completely en- cased in armor. Such as Aukylosaurus. Plates cov- ered the skull, neck, back and hips, and even the belly was covered by a pliable mosaic of small close-set plates. It was further protected by a movable plate thet could be dropped like a shutter -over each eye. The Geological Survey at Ottawa now has a re- markably fine collection of dinosaurian remains mounted and on exhibition at the Victoria Museum, Ottawa, and are also to be seen at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. The field has by no means been exhausted. Under miles of prairie land the samo strata 'are undoubtedly filled with similar fossils; erosion is rapid, ap as the river continues to wear its banks away new fossils are exposed. For all timo to come the Red Deer River will be a classic locality for collecting prehistoric treasures, No better weather could have]the Northsexperienced over the) cold for comfort and cold enough been asked for than that which!Christmas season. It was not too|to eliminate any tendency to wet ; ~ ski-championship meet of the city_of Quebec. Winter reigns supreme in Quebec once again. -- The romantic ayd historic city of Quebec gives itself up as in former \years to the invigorating joy of win- ter sports. They take it seriously there and they have every reason for doing so. Perhaps at no other centre on the continent are the conditions so ideal. Plenty of snow, (a keen steady climate, hills to ski down and great slides for toboggans. The Chateau Frontenac, owned by the Cagadian Pacific Railway Company, is undoubtedly the great centre of winter sports in Quebec. The above Whotograph shows. the "huge slide that provides endless amusement for all. 'To the left on the heights stands the Chateau, and to this famous hostelry visitors come from far and wide to take part in the winter festivities. The first outstanding events are scheduled to take place during the last week in December. In January the inter-collegiate ski meet will 'be held, at which it is expected, as was the case last season, teams from many of the Canadian and American universities will take part. The open championship ski jumping con- test of the Frontenac Winter Sports Association will be held in ™%fe third week of February, the silver trophy of which is now in the péssession of the Ottawa <i Club. There will also be held in February the Skating is being speciallycatered to. There are being built at present a dozen large open air rinks in the city, while the Canadian (open-to the world) speed skating championships, set fer February 4 and 5, will bring the.cream of Canadian and Américan speed skaters to Quebee---. ° 'Entries are already coming in from eastern Can- "ada and the United States for the fourth eastern in- ternational dog sled derby to be held February 21-23. Among those already received are H. I. Sutton, of|f Chicago; Ontario Paper Co., Quebec; Price Bros., of Quebee (two teams); P. J. Molloy, Berlin, N.H.; and the Paquet Company, Quebec. Officials of the East- ern International Dog Sled Derby Club expect at least 25 of the finest teams on the continent will be entered this year. Much earlier than this, however, the famous Duf- ferin Terrace toboggan slide will be in full operation well in advance of the Christmas season. A new at- traction in the form of a sled and bob-sled run will be built by the Frontenac Winter Sports Association on the old city walls and will finish on the Esplanade. Visitors will, therefore, be able to enjoy this ex- hilarating sport without even going outside the limits of Old Quebec. . Hockey will provide the most rabid fan with all he can desire. The new Quebec team, "The Bulldogs," will put a strong line-up in action against a United States circuit, including New Haven, Springfield, Mass., Providence and Boston, in the new Quebec- American League. "Sons of Ireland," old favorites in the amateur ranks, and a sterling team, will be playing when the "Bulldogs" are out of town, while there are also teams running in the Quebec City League, Nationale League and others. The curling bonspiel in February will bring rinks from all over the continent to "sweep" for the hand- some trophies up for competition. Nor should the snowshee clubs be forgotten, of which Quebec City possesses eight. Their spectacular appearance in the old-time French-Canadian costumes add greatly to the picturesqueness of the city and to its appeal to visitors. The Quebec Winter Sports Association, whose auspices the season will be operated, have already subscriptions in excess of $13,000 to date itize which will go far towards assuring a \ son under - The Quality of Your PRINTED STATIONERY + Is taken by almost evetybody as the index to the quality of your merchandise, or service, or what you have to sell a Your Stationery will convey the correct impression if we are orders, and you are entrusted with your assured of prompt service and a square deal ~ Letter Heads, Envelopes, Statements, Invoices, Business Cards, Business Forms and all Commercial and Society Printing "Of The Better Kind" THE HAILEYBURIAN Broadway Street phone 24 ii Haileybury A mw