Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday june 22, 1940 Page seventeen Estern Canada was never better pre pared for the coordinated Effort in which All productive Industry plays so great a part and which was never More essential than at the present time. A general strengthening of the Economy of the Prairie provinces forms a firm foundation on which is based Industrial and natural production in Ever increasing quantities. Swiftly moving events on the stage of a War mad world no sooner cast their shadows than those same shadows Are swallowed up and superseded by others greater and Ever greater and each succeeding hour but envisages More clearly the tremendous part this country is being called upon to play in the support of the Mother country and to literally be come the main stay along Many varied lines. While it is True that the Prairie provinces have Long been associated and identified with the production of Cereal much so that it has been called the bread Basket of the British while it is equally True that in the present Day agriculture in All its forms is assuming an even greater importance it is no less True that the West is fitted exceptionally Well and is prepared with the rest of Canada to give material assistance in Many other directions. It to Highland Swift production As never before. Its facilities have been placed in a state of preparedness never achieved in the past and no matter what the Call the West is prepared and Able to answer without delay and to the limit of its capacity. This Page illustrates in some measure the wide spread nature of Western Canada s economic status from the development of the soil to the development of minerals found thousands of feet beneath the Earth s surface. Structural Industry and Progress is indicated by the advancement in the reinforcing of Concrete. Electrical Power provides the answer to economical manufacturing. Without adequate transportation facilities All other Industry would be of no Avail and the West is excellently provided with transportation. Its lumbering and its fishing industries further stimulated by the Call from across the Ocean Are Well equipped to expand to answer All Calls and the same May be said of the heavy industries dealing with steel and Iron and which form the basis for Many other developments. In All of this greater Winnipeg carries its share of preparedness and with the rest of Canada is prepared to exert to the full its dynamic Energy along what Ever line it May be most required. Is one of a series of pages setting out the supreme importance of keeping Winnipeg s purchasing Power alive for the period of the War and stimulating the willingness of Winnipeg s people to Back the War front with an Active Home the series which will Deal with various phases of business Enterprise in the City is made possible by the co operation of the following Public spirited Bryce bakeries Ltd. City of Winnipeg Hydro electric system cow in co., Ltd. Fort Garry tire service Ltd. God s Lake Gold mines Ltd. Hudson Bay mining and smelting co., Ltd. International Harvester co., Ltd. Tintor truck division Manitoba Power commission Manitoba Telephone system Perth Dye works Ltd. Province of Manitoba Stovel co., Ltd. Blackwood beverages Ltd. Saults Pollard Ltd. Starratt airways transportation Ltd. Transcontinental coach lines Ltd. Winnipeg engraving co., Ltd. Winnipeg electric company Arctic ice company great West Coal co., Ltd. Canada Metal co., Ltd. Central press Ltd. City Dairy limited and others ;