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Durham Review (1897), 1 Nov 1928, p. 3

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ents Canada Explores Vast Interior and Taxies to Gold Fields by Air Hudson Straits Sea Route Found Navigable Into Decemberâ€" Indians Get Their Treaty Money by Plane â€"Forests Protected and Maps Made North of the two Canadian transâ€" continental railway lines the land is practically unexplored. Indians, a few white trappers and here and there mining camps, constitute the only inâ€" habitants of the great mineralized area surrounding the Hudson Bay. This territory the airplane is now exploring. Two Viking Canadianâ€"made seaâ€" planes, with two pilots, two surveyor navigators, two photographer meâ€" chanics, a photographic officer, and a cook, as well as a fully equipped outft, provisions, spare parts, camâ€" eras, etc.. came down out of a clear sky one day toward the middle of September, when the foliage of timâ€" ber far below was . in colorful hue. the minion. The Royal Canadian Air Force in conjunction with the Ontario Proâ€" vincial Air Force have kept more than 165,000,000 acres of virgin forest under constant surveillance in the summer and late autumn when forâ€" est fires are most menacing. Seaâ€" ervice ; inmaped regions used princ! and equipm The other Haviland M in detecting under the most haz Canoe was the only into the country, & erable lakes had t« th th 1e mon traits; another halfway to the Atâ€", lantic on QueBec territorfy, and‘ the| third ‘ at tha« northern® extremity of Labrador. the ®expedition has QO‘VQ}-I ad thi Hudson Strilts north, cast n&‘ wost. in a daily patroet of 1200 .miles, The Straits are from 50 to 100 Ilfl“' in wi‘th as4 450 miles long, ‘Thoy. Photogt ing car â€"known t a P D it n tr AFP d Ontari AN K latter the grain 1Ir@igniers for Europe. | believed that the Hudson ‘vre frozen solid most of the therwise were 80 blockaded rgs as to be navigable for ort time. . To discover at I just what the conditions is new route to Europe, & seven planes, With pilots, . radio operators, housing and supplies to last for 18 as sent north last summet inadian Government. And the past year, the towering the snowbound regions just » Arctic Circle, have witâ€" o passage . of. six Fokker a4 nAns HChL De MavTend 1C Fly graphy of areas »tching . of vast ‘termine the na ts rt phy of areas as yet ing of vast forest mine the nature of surveying of power tion of supplies to ~these are some of airplane in the Do: ng Canada h te regions Boats ol reconna 1C1A FIVE MILES A MINU th 13 Forest qua I @ne t The era Y ‘y.| Another gold field in Quebec, open: !'!| ed about the same time, called for an | air service from Haileybury, Ont., to on Rouyn, Que. One fiying boat carâ€" he ried 576 passengers, 12 tons of ed freight and 4000 letters in 146 hiurs or Avin@ time before a railway was run have been found by the air patrol to have too fast a current for freez ing over, and. were entirely free of ice up to December 10. That is as lon gas the Great Lakes, nearly 1500 miles farther south are open. On that day in December a bhuge ice pan, floating down from Fox Channel, blocked the entrance to the Straits from Nottingham Island to the northâ€" ern mainland. Here again then, the airplane has proven of value to Canada. It has show‘n that it will be feasible to ship wheat from the West via the Hudson Bay and Hudson Straits immediately after the harvest. And this season results will show for how long & period the Straits are open: whether they will be navigable from April 15 to December, just as the Great Lakes. Toâ€"day the question . of e!ectric‘ nower is one . of vital interest. It, and forest tario and abundance those who po w treaty money NO OngCe) 12 CiUVE: after canoe packed with .camp equip~i ment and provisions to last such a trip. â€"Now the nativesrof the counâ€" try see a graceful sird far abov: their heads gradually come closer, and the roar of engines tells them it is the white man with their annual herfâ€" tage. Now the seaplanes of the foresâ€" try service come swooping down each autumna on lakes®© and rivers, hunâ€" dreds of miles beyond the railway and civilization, to bring the Indians what the Great White Queen had promised them 50 or more years ago. To the Gold Fields It was these government air servâ€" To the Gold Fields It was these government air servâ€" ices that showed commercial interâ€" ests the vast use to which the plane went in tions. Both, have their }teadq;.:x:'te;u in Toronto, their bases at The Pas Manitoba, and at~Hudson, Ontario. From thasa F_glnt;;tho!chnv‘gy finanâ€" clers and" directors to claims which Shipping Wheat ato _sh;;ni;bbummlu: fiying these men in comfortable, heated cabin planes, ~ They will transport to re ints h veat he question of €! me . of vital interest iiscovered on the su ‘v patrols in norther Quebec that there cony Canada tl No long y n After Harvest LTIv iT TY surve nachines On inde 1arg and oot. alrâ€" ul 4 $1 ? THRONGS CHEER GRAF ZEPPELIN ON ARRIVAL AFTER LONG | Fiying smoothly despite a badly torn navigating fin, the giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin dipped ! (Oct. 15th) afternoon, ending the longest nonâ€"stop flight in the world‘s history. The leviathan « ‘aboard had been 111% ‘hours in the air since leaving Thursday (Oct. 11th), and had covered apt zones on the Atlantic. . The picture is a striking photograph of the dirigible taken as it passed 0 welcome the voyagers of the air. mote places prospecting parties fully equipped with camp, food and minâ€" ing necessilies . to investigate posâ€" sibilities. * Anchorage, Alaska.â€"Civilization is reaching toward the wideâ€"open spaces of Alaska, and the big brown grizzly bear, which firnishos amusement for hunters, must give way before an \advan(-iug array of live stock raisers \who are about tok preâ€"empt the haunts of bruin in the Western islands. Esâ€" | pecially is this true of Kodiak Islands, |\ much of which is taken up under grazâ€" |\ing and homestead lease applications. ‘ About 600 families will live there withâ€" | in a few years. When it comes to a question of a bear or a sheep taking up room on Kodiak Island, the prosâ€" | pective farmers are for the sheep. That area which is krown as the Great Preâ€"Cambrian Shield, covering nearly twoâ€"thirds of Canada, and which investigation has shown.to be heavily mineralized, although only a tenth of it has as yet been touched and more than halil not yei explored will be rapidly developed by the use of the airplane. In fact, authoritieos on mining state that with the use of the airplane. the Canadian prospecâ€" tor should be able to do more in the next five years than he has done in tte past 50 years.â€"By J. M. in The Christian Science Monitor. Stock Farms Will Oust Brown Bears in Alaska Invention 6{ Simon I:ake, Br'ldgeport'. Conn. A diving compartment under the nose permits diveors to work with their base of operations alongâ€" side the sunken vessol. Inset, an interior view. NEW SALVAGE CRAFT FOR UNDERSEA RESCUES Leviathan of * Light Indicates | MacDonald Fell | Close to Goal L o n d o n.â€"The, possibility that Licutenart Commander M. C. Macâ€" Donald,. young Briton. who was atâ€" tempting to fly from Newfounrdland to England, perished when only 150 miles from the Irish coast was indiâ€" cated by passengers and crew of the Canadian Pacific liner Montelaire, which arrived in Liverpool Sunday. They said that at 6.15 p.m., Thursday, they had seen "a light Grop from the sky leaving a trail of flame behind it." The position of the Montclaire at the time was 150 miles west of Tory Island, of the northwest coast of County Donegal. The light was too far to the southwest for the observers to be sure as to its nature. MAY HAVE BEEN FLIGHT‘S END From this position and the time of the incident the Montclare passengers may well have witnessed the ending of MacDonald‘s singleâ€"handed attempt to cross the Atlantic in a light plane. On the other hand, there is the report of a somewhat similar occurrenceâ€"the iner Passengers Saw Flamâ€" ing Object Drop Into Sea 150 Miles Off Irish . Coast L o n d o n.â€"Thé. possibility that Amabs oi nnes cmgmoces xas P e narnene e the Clouds Reaches La kehurst Goal After 6,000â€"Mile Flight sighting of "a light resembling an exâ€" plosion"â€"from the steamer Mirach, which was several hundred miles furâ€" ther west, at 11.30 o‘clock Wednesday night. MacDonald‘s plane might have been at either of the two places at the times mentioned. He took off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wedâ€" nesday noon Scion of Titled English Family and Two Companions * _ Gave Up Hope Near Thelon River Cold Claimed Three i Lack of provisions is believed to be the reason for his failure to return from the northern wilds on his last tour of exploration. Weak from hunâ€" | ger and numbed by the intense cold, ]the three. men are believed to have ‘collapsed. folded themselves in their i blankets and perished, EARL ISs BRIDEGROOM The Earl of Boctive, heir to Marquis of Headfort ton Oratory to Lady Clarke, widow of Sir Rupert C Winnipeg.â€"The bodies â€" of men, believed to be those « Hornby, scion of a titled Engl! ily and noted Arctic explorer, . companions, who have been in the far north of Canada years, have been found in the lands along the shore of the River. It is not known who I two companions were Such is the story bru«Sht to Winniâ€" peg by a party of prospectors who arrived at The Pas, Man., by airplane from Fort Churchill, terminal of the Hudson Bay Kailway. The discovery, they relate, was made by the first party of prospectors to penetrate this particular region in the Far North in twenty years, who, traveling by canoe down the Thelon River, found the frozen bodies wrapped in blankets and lying in the snow. The discovery brings to a close a search which has been in progress for over two years. Hornby, after coming to Canada, passed his early days in the wilds of northern Alberta, later amatsing a fortune at Edmonton, Alta. Prior to the fatal journey into the Arctic region, he had gone from Chesterfield Inlet, on Hudson Bay, and 1 veler "Can I have a private bath?". "Yes, everyone here takes his bath privately sir, We have only one bath, but everyâ€" one here takes his bath privately." ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO . AFTER LONG OcEAN COYAGE Zeppelin dipped to earth at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at 5.30 Monday The leviathan of the clouds, with 20 passengers and a crew of 40 had covered approximately 6000 miles in its efforts to avoid storm n as it nassed over New York where whistles blew and flags few to was considered a resourceful traâ€" ::‘ga::;: !A;x.'“t‘;; has just returned to En fourd in the barren four months‘ exploratic shore of the Thelon Mackenzie River, going known who Hornby‘s as Jatitude 70, where h verq. tests among the Eskimo: ry bru«;ht to Winniâ€" jn talking over hbis ex of prospectors who the scientific editors of as, Man., by airplan® Morning Post, he said: hill, terminal of thei "I found that the Indi way. The discovery, fering from the most se of â€"three a of Jack iglish famâ€" r, and two n missing la for two the barren the first rate this North in by canose 0 WiIinD Jn ors who th airplane y 1 of the ; lscm‘ery.| fo the first of rate this‘ m Mother (at bedtime): "Don‘t mumâ€" ble your prayers, Helen. I can‘t hear a word you say." Helen: "I wasn‘t speaking to you, Mummy." neome | _ ‘"‘The method of blood testing conâ€" sists in taking a drop of blood from |the ear, and as the Indians seemed to think that the test was in the nature of a cure for influenza, I had little dificulty in performing it. In ‘fact, many of them confessed that .they felt much better for It! Tests Show Eskimos Not of Indian Blood English Explorer Reveals Reâ€" lationship With Manchuriâ€" â€" ans as Result of : Analysis Professor R. Ruggles Gates of King‘s College, London University, has just returned to England after a four months‘ exploration along the Mackenzie River, going as far north as latitude 70, whore he made blood tests among the Eskimos and Indians, In talking over bis expedition with the scientific editors of The London Morning Post, he said: "I found that the Indians were sufâ€" fering from the most serious epidemic of influenza they have ever had. This might have complicated matters had I not been able to turn it to a good account. * L "Among the Indians I tested were men and children from half a dozen different tribes, with such picturesque names as Dogribs, Yellow Kaives, Hairskins and Loucheux. Some of the childron traveled 1,000 miles for the test. "The results were unexpected. The Indian tribes gave results similar to those that have been recorded ~for other Indian tribes of North America, while those of the Eskimos resemblod results that have been obtaingd from Manchurians and Chinese. "From these, one could draw the tentative conclusion that the Eskimos could not lhave descendéd, as has been Weld by some anthropologists, from Indnan ancestors, but came independâ€" ently across the Bering f"*rait." o ee e nce "Have you ever wondered what would do if you had Rothschild‘s ne?" "No; but I‘ve often wonderâ€" hat ho would do if he had mine." Headfort, was married at Brompâ€" Rupert Clarke of Melbourne. France Makes _ ~ Le Bourget Hub of Airship System Continent‘s Main Terminal, Alive With Planes, Was Pasture in Preâ€"War Days & Radio Reports Movements of all Craft En Route Le Bourget, France.â€"A cow pa# ture when the war began, the avia« tion field at Le Bourget, has become the Grand Central terminal of the air in little more than ten years, Its development and its fame and popularity belong to the great busiâ€" ness romances of this fastmoving age, â€" In immensity, completeness, comfort and efficiency, the airdromeée just outside Paris combines many of the facilities of a great station and a great port, In fact, the oficials who govern the arrival and departure of the planea which often come and go at the rata of a dozen or so an hourâ€"remind one who asks about their field that it is "both a station and a port." Planes arrive not only from almost all of the capitals of the Continent, connect» ed with Paris by rail, but they also come from overseasâ€"from Africa, la» dia, England, And one w#»7gettable night ,the silvery ship Lbearing Lind». bergh slipped down on the grass of Le Bourget, â€" thirtyâ€"three and â€" oneâ€"halt hours out of New York, Le Bourget has also witnessed tha arrival of America‘s Roundâ€"theâ€" World flyers of 1924, the departure of Costes and LeBrix for Bouth America last autumn, and before that the tragle farewell of Nungesser and Colf, when they set out for New York, In the near future it is sure to see many more planes sail away for the new world, and no doubt the day will come when New York will take its place on the bulletin board along with London, iBerlln, Copenhagen and the other \cities to which there are regular dally \ services, Travelling by air is no longer look» ed on as a novel experieuce or A sport, and an hour at Le Bourget will Ir(aveal what an eficient #orkaday means of transfiort the alrplane has llwmme. The planes leave with the regularity of trains, on 6« hedule, ex cept when the weather is exception ally bad. â€" The position of all the big planes loqulppn-l] with wircless, which fly be \twoeen Paris and other capitals, is that Le BSBourgel wings. That was di ators were trained from thera that F Sky Travel Loses Novelty t Have Engine Ready for Strain of Frost With frost nipping here a unexpected times it is w« motorists to remember th lowing precautions may p pensive repairs, Run a solution of was Kun a solution through the radiator tem while the moto: period of at least t« flush with clear wat sceale and rust tha When the water ru ator and cooling #y: "How do you.mean you mak( pas‘ last night, John*?" ‘Well Harold I‘d never been kiased and It appears I wos engaged last summer." grc Canadian Autoists Honor President arrive Silver Emblem Is Presented to Dr. P. E. Doolittle In recognition,of his services to the motorists of Canada, Dr. P. E. Dooâ€" little, of Toropto, . has been elected president of the Canadian Automobile Association, at the closing session of the fAfteenth annual convention at Winnpipeg. He also was presented with a shield of silver, which contains a scene representing the Transâ€"Canada Highway, of which Mr. Doolittle has been.a strong advocate for many years. This will be the doctor‘s ninth consecutive term as president. wW. D. reâ€"elected recautions Needed to | vent Injury by Unexâ€" pected Chill m After this pro her antifreez« M air to « & towar y in P he m smommenmenemcose ty a mm en h a M bert B uns h t« w a y rls there n nca )t W is running minutes. to drain « of, Tor its the p W it the revent hing soda ooling sys lor planes fily beâ€" als, is oment o rail> owilll aday has _ the I told before, to hi Tor & Thon it the »ctod, radiâ€" a ‘faus lelo ling Aviâ€" w ds took n 0 D# ent o at the folâ€" ph reâ€" AT® 0

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