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Show r b riendly Invaders from the U.S. Swell Edmonton's Population I r , w,.,.lw,Jl.,m,.. . r&c5. rr""" " ''7 ' Ml iffeK 1 1 u " fL-lHL'" TJ 4wy I lmH 5 M'i i y tji' ' jfr - . yw' yfimXS JfJH f i The city streets of Edmonton, Alberta, the southern NSr,?""j v ' ,ti headquarters for Alaskan Highway operations, hum with ? " " "v."' -ck activity 24 hours a day. On this, its second busiest ! ' x I street, automobiles are not plentiful but pedestrian traf- . 1 A ,' " V 1 flc is neavy- TP is a scene at a railway station, where t i .'"irnen from all over the American continent pour in day I . . ""' ' fi" -J and night, while below is a familiar scene, the habitual . - -s t "I "standers-in-line". They stand in line for theatres, for . ' ' - N s IC" i transportation, for meals, for liquor. This is part of a ittfifrwttw -m -ii-fttwitifmftiiaa theatre crowd The city streets of Edmonton, Alberta, the southern headquarters for Alaskan Highway operations, hum with activity 24 hours a day. On this, its second busiest street, automobiles are not plentiful but pedestrian traffic traf-fic is heavy. Top is a scene at a railway station, where men from all over the American continent pour in day and night, while below is a familiar scene, the habitual "standers-in-line". They stand in line for theatres, for transportation, for meals, for liquor. This is part of a theatre crowd. FOR a decade Edmonton had participated par-ticipated in the normal growth of Western Canadian cities, but now as a result of its place as a "jumping-off" centre for wartime development of the Alaskan Highway High-way and the Dominion's great Northwest Territories, the population popula-tion has zoomed up. During the winter of 1942-3 the census figures increased by 25,000, boosting the city's resident population to 130,000. In addition a transient percentage, mainly U. S. workmen headed North, ran the total even higher. Edmontonians watched their housing problems, already acute, increase tenfold. They worried as ! stocks in dry goods stores were depleted de-pleted rapidly. They became without with-out exception, the Dominion's most habitual "standers-in-line." They stood in long queues for meals, for theatres, for transportation, for liquor. They didn't know whether to laugh or blow up when their city was dubbed "Edmonton, U.S.A." They do now . . . they laugh. Ed- : 4 monton's original thousands st:1' stand in lines with Uncle Sam friendly invaders, but the grumi ling, if any, is mild. The housi? situation is still alarming but th-it's th-it's realized, is due in the main normal wartime expansion. 1 city has experienced an influx Canadian war workers along v the Americans. Moreover, the 1 remains that many U. S. compa' with an eye to the good-neig'' policy, have provided accom tions for their own staffs. |