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Foo-1- - AND.MOUTH- Canada! mounting to about t500,000 paid to

32.000.000.000 livestock

industry Western Canada's farmers. Here on

was struck a crippling blow Feb. ROMP officer posts a quarantine

25 with the announcement or outbreak of dreaded foot-and- mouth disease in southern Sask-

Hatchewan. Western cattle trade vir-

tually came to a standstill. Export was stopped. Some'2.000 cattle were destroyed with com ensation a-

ELECTION UPSET8 -- On -Time 12 the first of two upsets in the year's live provincial elections oc- curred when British Columbia vot- ers elected the Social Credit party by, a narrow margin. Premier W. A. 0. Bennett (leit), Kelowna hardware merchant. won ,3!) seats in the 48-seat legislature and suc- ceeded a Liberal-Progressive Con- servative coalition. in power since 3041. Three months later, Sept. 22, New Brunswick ousted a. Liberal government in office 17 years and choseca Progreaive Conservative administration headed by Premier

an sign on a lanm near Regina. In August, it was announced Canada was cleared of the disease and in November the United States an-

nounced the ban or import of Can- adian meat and livestock would be lifted next March 1. (CP Photo)

Hugh John Flemming (right), 52- year-old lumber merchant. 'The PC's tool: 38 of the 52 seats. Premi- er T. C. Douglas and his CCF go- vernment were re-elected in Sask- atchewan June 11 with 42 ,.of the province's 53 seats. In Quebec, on July 16. Premier Maurice L. Du- plessis led his Union National party to a repeat victory with 68 of the 92 seats. E. C. Manning was return- ed as premier of Alberta for the fourth time when the Social Cre- dit party Aug. ll won its fifth straight election since 1935. with 52 of the 61 seats. (OP Photo)

, United Nations . Generel- Assembly.

UN YREBIDENT - Oct. i4. a'truce, the bitterness of the East- month at ending E year's chair- West split, the resignation of Try- manship. o the North Iitlantioigve Lie and the suicide of Lia's Coupcil.L;e'ater B.Pe5rsan.OanadsI's'chief lieutenant. He also ms an external afitlra minister, stepped hands-full at home-his depart- into: another top international post. ment. with new embassies in a He was named president of the number oi countries. was expand-

ling in important directions; and. at year's end, Parliament was in session.

In his UN position he lminediately' hadteioontend with the-r'arnlfica-

ties: at the search for a, xor-ads (GP Photo)

HE GUARDIAN. CLIARLO

GANG LEADER - Edwin Alonzo Boyd, 38-year-old leader of one of Canada's most notorious gangs of bank robbers, in March was the focus-with his gang-of an in- tensive manhunt .following the

mund Tong and for a series oi bank robbles and an escape from Toronto's Don jail. Captured, Boyd and three gang members again es- caped from Don Jail. On Sept. l5 he was behind bars once more and

B. '0. DEVELOPMENT - 1952 was 'Imder construction by thcl was a year of tremendous industrial Aluminum Company or Canada, BXP8-nsion in British Columbia. .At Llcan says it will be the world's K1Um3t. 450 miles north of Van- biggest smelter. Cable tramlincs WUVEY. an aluminum key was be- crealred up and down a. mountain ing cast near a wilderness treasure incline to supply the camps tunnel- trove. There a 35.) 000,000 project ling -through the mountains. Archi-

RECORI) GRAIN CROP -Most into marketing ports. Western of Western Canadas' record grain farmers improvised granarles, rang- crop or l.400,000,000 bushels was in ing from spare bedrooms to an air by November and grain men gope'n- force hangar, to store.psrt oi the ed full throttle on the biggest remainder when grain elevators grain-moving rush of the season. grains down the St. Lawrence river An armada oifreighters rushed mill- and regular granaries became ions of ions ofrwheat and other checked. At. some places thousands

. Q . .

shooting of Toronto detective Ed-i

less than a month later two meni- bers nf his gang-Steve Suchan and Leonard Jackson-were sen- tenced to be hanged for Tongs murder. Boyd got life imprison- ment.

(GP Photo)

tecis have drawn up blueprints for a model city at Kitimat, with everything planned in minute de- tail for a population of 46,500, It is to be a seaport and a railway ter- minus as well as s, smelter site. (CP Photo)

of bushels were piled in the open due to lack of storage space. Here is overflow grain on the Matador co-operative farm near Swift Cur- rent in southwestern Saskatche- wan. Two of the farm's granaries (in background) hold 100.000 bu- shels. (C? Photo)

NATIVE GOVERNOR - On Jan. record of public service and inteli- back to Champlain in 1608, and me

24, Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey was ectual appointed Canada's first born governor-general.

att inment. He is

the successor to brought to his new post a notable Maaey is the 56th in a line dating

BIG OIL YEAlt ... In April it was a great serpent from announced the fast-growing oil in- S”p”1Orv Wm Om” dustry had made Canada the British Commonwealth's leading oil producer for the first time. Can- ada's 1951 output or 6.500.000 tons topped Borneo-previous leader -iAmerican continent which produced 5,000,000 ions.

ion. A November surv

vole , 4a.”"'&l7.3t gr.-.9 , i

LITTLE GIBRALTAR - In Octn- one company of the int Battalion, her, Canadian soldiers fought their Royal Canadian Regiment, were hit. toughest battle of the Korean War Three men from B. Company re- at Little Gibraltar Hill, with ic- lax after the battle. Left to right wer than 100 facing 1,000 attacking,are: Pte. Murray Deaddcr, Kent- Chinese. There were at least 06 ville. N. 8.; Pie John Lewis. High- rssualt s, including ll dead and land Village, Colchwtcr. N. S., and 13 missing. All but a handful of Pie. Arthur MacDonald, Hampton

shown lath since Confederation. In 1926.

native- greeting Prme Minister St. Laur- when he was appointed Canadian Wealthv. ent on the opening or the seventh Minister to the United States, it! cultured-his name for years has session of Canada's 21st Parliament. was the first diplomatic been synonymous with the art&- one of the last appointments of merit

appoint-

of ministerial rank to

(or motor

Lord Alexander King George VI, Governor-General made by Canada.

Edmonton toifrom 72,000.000 in l947 to a pm: pipelines inl sent-tiny gllns-2 of l.T00.000,000 ban the West Coast. and east to Ontario 1015. Shmm are mzmiiolris---at the and Quebec were under construct- Ilitcrprovincisi ' showed 185 Denys of he 947 geophysicnl crews huni- monton-which control the flow of mg for oil and gas on the North oil before were working and :1. 1. A in Western Canada. Estlniuts-s off of iiw ( ent in 590,000,000 pipeline stretched like Canada's total oil reserves climbcdllnnrkeis.

Pipe Line Coma pumping station at Ed-

I. goes into the pipeline mile in lo the head and eastern (C? Photo)

Station, N. R. The Canadian mil defended a spur of the hill, direct- ly under enemy observation (Ell three sides. The regiment val impaired from the spur but regain- ed its position despite tough Chinut opposition.

(CP from National Diem,