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er 22nd we drove over mmhggitiitiar Dundalk, 1.'I0tl feet E. sea level. It is the highest 'bmleth Ontario and most of the Wm in the province start from nverltilis hump and flow into the 31 Great Lakes that form all the northeastern boundaries uthern Ontario. This huiiip . bout, 25 miles from Georgian 1' a nd nearly half way between Bay asimcoc and Lake Huron. Lluiie were told that this ridge was ctinttnuation of the Niagara 65' ' mom. From it many compara- Earpl short rivers drop durlnz mfycourses a greater distance ”'”'5 the fall from Forth William ""5 ebcc City. including the rail; lo 'u,aplds on the Niagara Riv r. launanny of these rivers have cut (mp channels as they flow through me 1-tilting country side. In places ,- channels widen out to form iilactlsr those are natural water stor- ,.'JlfClaS, when the rivers cau- agtc remove all the water that mtlcis from the rolling hills in 1;-lspi-iiig or during heavy sum- I r iillltl fall rains. mill I: a matter of record that In m.;,,.,, the greatest loss of life (mitt iltiods has occurred along its -titlltwt rivers and streams. It-:5 kit I or interest that the worst :In5tIVi'I( in Ontario have been caused by -utnttier and autumn rains and ,,;,, inc IITSIIEIS from spring thaws. 1-, L quite generally thought that the lack of forests in Southwestern Qntallu has been responsible for .h, rorcfli. floods. Forests do re- Iiin ntore rain for a lonzcii De-F105 Iilnll cultir.-ited land and no doubt mg-;r presence is beneficial in re- tarding Ilie flow of rain water. but no rolling hills and the steep (irSr'('llI. of the rivers and streams 1,1 l)ltl Ontario was such that the mg: l-lrencli explorer who reached the mouth of the Humbcr River I-mmitctl it in flood. (httcriior Siincoe was i'0SCUCd fioni being drowned tn'thc Holland Ma,-5-it by being haulcdanto a canoe during a flood and in order to avoid the regular route north IJY My of the flooding Ilumbcr val- Mf hp had Yonge Street cut ml.-ttgli the forest all the way to 1,.-the Stiiicoc. by following around the east of the Holland Marsh smtcoe never trusted the Humber and had the new city of York built all the high ground nearer the non River. His summer house W. also built near the Don. Ilccordcd floods occurred to- .-mis the end or the eitzliicciiih m-tut-y and in X III the bridiles itrl dams were ashcd out by Ilmtrls an the Don. Credit and Ilttinbc-r rivers. while the headwa- ters of all these were in dense for-

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',KIS. . The Indians and early 3CI-Hers uepd the river flats for corn and wltrr crops. it-ililply bCC3'-150 I-he Iirrs had been killed on them by ',;.m(t5, so tiiat they were easily tlcai-ed for farnilng, but also be- iause they. Wf!lie.RQllEl'ally fertile illuviztl soilu,-'Ncither Indians nor lie pioneers, however, ever trust- yd the rivers enough 10 N339 "19" atgtxnms or houses on these ai'c.a:'. it rthat lar.t:l belonged to the riv- It . A noted engineer has said: ”II'iieii we are honest with our- selves, and get down to the bot- loin of tile flood problem, about DI) per cent of the pcrmanentgflopod dztinage is the result of building roads, railways. factories, liouses. farms and what not on land "that properly belong to the river. The Humber valley Conserva- tlort Authority stated in 1947: "The flats belong to the river,” they am part of the river bed. but RFC only occasionally needed and "it-hoover builds pon them does so at his peril.” ix floor control

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ONTARIO FLOODS.

l-lumber. but the chief conserva. tion engineer stated that had they been built they would have only taken care of about one third of the flood crest of October ltith, 1954. Another leading flood con. trol authority believed that had the costliest dams ever conceived for the Humber River been built they would have had little effect against the flood caused recently by the hurricane. They might hive provided a little more time for escape but the loss of life would still have been appalling. What can be done to prevent such disasters in the future? The Metropolitan Planning Board had stated that it will ask the Prov- incial Government to move ev- erybody out of the river flats. The chairman believes that if this is done. the six Dr0D0scd flood dams on the Humber would be unneces- sary. The Humber falls 1.850 feet in 60 miles, and any scheme to provide flood dams to retain the six to eight inches of rain that fell on this watershed during Hur- ricane Hazel, would create more serious problems by flooding thou- sands of acres of valuable farm lands. Many millions have al- ready been spent in Ontario on flood control dams that have not saved its towns and I disastrous floods. .

The Municipal Act of Ontario, gives a town the right to rcfusct building permits to build on river flats, and the only existing tita- chinery by which compensation

built without a permit is the ex- propriation for park purposes of their holdings. The totvn of Long Branch has presented a s'750,000 plan to the Metropolitan authori- tics of Toronto. to move all the houses from 42nd and 43rd Streets and Indian Road. This plan is to be included in the Metropolitan project to create a green belt of park land encricling the city, and to include the flats of the Humber and Don rivers. Reports on prev- ious investigations have stated that many of these flats will never be safe for year-rottnd l'CSidCnt.'0W some are even subject to flooding by high lake water.

It is a mistake to think that Hazel was the first hurricane that ever reached Toronto. In 1850 and again in 1878 there occurred "a tremendous rain storm that came up from the Gulf of Mexico'- Thcsc no doubt were hurricanes. The one in I778 destroyed :50 dams and 20 bridges across the D.1 River. Provision sltoultl bi- made to lessen the danger from hurricanes that may occur in the future. it is said that no control measures ever planned could have saved the homes on Raymnrc Drive from the recent flood, bc- cause Ihey were built on land that "belonged to the river," and the

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VICTORIA. (CP)-A clear-eyed. middle-aged farmwife is czlled the quccn of the cougar hunters on Vancouver island.

She is Mrs. Joan Mllwarde Yates who has been shooting the big cats for 1'! years and her bag now num- bers 23.

Shooting is her hobby, but she is also protecting her mountain- side iarm from inarauders. They

prey upon livestock and have taken heavy toll in many fann- clearings.

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Sometimes called mountain lions, the cougars seldom attack humans, but can be dangerous when wound- ed. It takes an accurate shot to bring the big cats from the trees

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Mrs. Yates hunts with dogs. She has been hunting shire ll child, starting out from grouse and duck to deer rind cougar:

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The "run" crosses their farm. it mile up Mount Matheson. some 20 miles from Victoria.

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Mr. Yates leavfs the hunting to his wife and says: "She has such a passion for cougar killing that she will get up in the night and start out with a flashlight. She'll

October -have nothing on but hot: pyjamas."

She has had some "nasty times" during her hunting career. Once when ztrincd only with a .22- calibrc rifle. she fotind a cougar ready to pounce on her sheep.

"I called to it and when it turn- cd. I shot it right between the eyes. It reared on its hind legs. forclcgs outstretched and claws btired. Fortunately it dropped- dcnd."

Cougars are getting scarce or. the southern part of the island.

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Mrs. Yates' number one ambi- tion is to hunt in Africa, where she would "like to shoot one of every kind of animal there."

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Ginl.le'l, New York, report that small furs are now accounting for to per cent of retail fur sales while coat. sales are figuring at about 23 per cent. for Jackets amounting to 18.5 per cent as compared to 14.2 per 'cent a. year ago. The sharpest drop has come in short coats which have dropped from 16.3 per cent last. year to 11.3 per cent. European purchasers of American ranched mink reached a peak last season and European buying is expected to continue in the new auction season.

The Chinchilla Corporation of America of Llnthicuin. Md., has notified the Securities Exchange Commission at Washington that it plans to sell 1,200,000 .shares of its common stock for about 3300.000. The Company's chief purpose is the supplying of chinchilla stock to breeders. According to statements filed its total assets amount to 354,- 112 and its total liabilities to :18,- 1l2. In the past five months it has mi-nod a net profit after taxes of 511,648.

some 515,000 worth of fur coats were seized in a police raid on R downtown garage in Montreal, P. Q. last week following a. telephone tlpoft by a mysterious informer. Detectives discovered a pile of ex- pensive fur coats heaped on the floor of the garage. A check indic- ated that 150-odd coats had been stolen from downtown and western district fur retail stores. The police theory isbacked up by alabel found on one of the coats which reads- Charles Desjardins, 1194 Sher- brooke St.. one of the three stores looted in the past month. The three suspects seized in the garage at the time of the raid are being held by the police for further questioning.

The following despafch is from Denver, 0olorado...Much of the interest in longhaired furs In sev- eral stores has been concentrated on fox. Domestic fox in pearl plat- inum and silver are best with one buyer who notes that tax is coming back in dress pieces and "up to a point is taking the place of mink." Pastel-dyed fox, especially pink, is selling in small collars and novelty pieces and a slight increase in sales of grey-dyed furs is noted ...Iii another section of Women's

Wear Daily we note that more furs are registering in color with new emnhasis on greys, also pale tones ...That high shades such as red. pink, charcoal are creating Interest in furs. That there are a lot of lit- tle foxes in natural blue and white. That white luxury furs are for evening and a black-dyed mink is showing some activity.

At the P. E. I. fur breeders show which was on this week at the Exhibition grouds, we saw several very beautiful black mink and we complimented the breeder. who told us that he had quite a number of them and had been improving his herd right; along. There has not been a really good demand for black mink but that may be be- cause better specimens were not available. However. we feel con- fident that if a rancher can pro- duce the right quality they can be sold easily.

The following is a despatch from Monttcal to Women's Wear Daily ...Canada Mink Breeders has de- cided to take part in Canadian Government exhibits at the Milan

and 'Paris Fairs this coming year.

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At the CMB executive meeting here it was agreed that Norman W, Shields, executive secretary, is to visit Europe next Spring to make the rounds of the principal for de- signers and manufacturing mar- kets. Garments and dressed pelts will be shown by CMB at the Milan Fair, April 21 Do 2'! and at the Foire de Paris. May 14 to 30. Among other decisions reached by the CMB executive was that the Canadian organization is hoping to go along with the United States breeders in the standardization of live mliik show classifications by color phases rather than by type.

Albert Woodley of the Albert Woodley Co., New York, who is handling the promotional program for EMBA, mink. in which the Can- adian organization directly par- ticipates, is also to work with the Canadian group in the develop- ment of its newly Initiated plan for Canadian dark ranch d mink. A two-language in-achur on "Canada mink", the "house name" for Cati- adlan dark mink, is to be produced to help promotion here and abroad. As noted, a registered trade mark name is to be adopted for "good average or better" quality dark mink pelts in this plan.

The 24th annual live fox show and 7th annual live mink show was concluded yesterday at the Fox Show Pavilion, Provincial Exhibit. ion grounds. It had 2'10 entries ill the fox sections, which was by far the largest for several years, and 1'10 in the mink sections. The qual- ity was excellent and the compet- ition very keen. Parvbi Cass of the P.l!2.I. Fur Pool judged the fox ex- hibits and his placings were con- sidered excellent. He has had a long experience handling silver fox and mink pelts and was well fitted for the position. The mink were Judged by Andy Stewart of the famous Hudson's Bay Company. Through his hands pass thousands of mink annually in grading at the l-f.B.C. and it was certainly a or at move on the part; of the Exhibitors Association to bring him here and have the advantage of his experi- ence. t

George A. Callback carried off the top honors with the faxes and also with the mink and was pre- sented with the l-ludsoirs Bay Com- pany trophy for the highest ag- iziezate in points-156. Visiting ex- hibitor. S. U. Messingcr of Bridge- town. N. 5., carried on quite a number of honors including the champion fox pup. and another exhibitor who had considerable success was Thomas Neilson of Port Eisin, N. 8. His fox was grand champion at the Amherst show recently. Gordon MacM1llan 3-! U-SUHI. took a lot of prizes in the silvers and Lowell Hancock had ex- celienl: success in the platium clus- es. Mr. Hancock was also an ex- hibitor of inirik. There was it feel- inggof optimism among all the exhibitors, the expectation being that sliver fox is definitely showing , signs of a comeback. The exhibitors

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Sehrdny. Nov. 1!. 1956 Government and the Canadian National Silver Fox Bi-eederst As- sociation. and it is hoped that this show will be on an even larger scale next year.

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