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Show - i 1 I YOUR NEIGHBOR-CANADA -.-r,rr-ri : , - I y A J a ' v ' ' !fV - s ' ig. A. ' - - - - je . t"" 1 . v '.- ' 1 . ""---. iN T v , v w.-nv; V . f ; J LsMjr - TTy - I , " J M'i I Canada's vast plains f ill r.s &S $ " I j produce quantities r tJi . of wheat as well as 4s large herds of cat- jiiiS(,.- , tie. At right is seen . J a trapper in thegn - , k ft ' J Hudson Bay sec-P A . N s f ' tion which produces M , S' JH much fur for cloth-A0 - 4 4 ing and commercial fj? y "J il purposes. . t i Jack Bear, a Blood Indian, adds olor to a western roundup. LiANADIANS. like Americans, j have come from all parts of the world and have grown up In a land with great traditions of freedom. Consequently they resemble Americans Ameri-cans in almost every respect. It would be easy to distinguish between a New England fisherman and an Arizona cowboy, but not between a New England fisherman and one from Nova Scotia. Canadians and Americans look alike, eat about the same kind of meals, wear about the same kind of clothes, read the same kind of maeazines and enjoy the same kind of movies. ' Deanna Durbin, the film star, iooks a lot like a typical American girl; but she was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mary Pickford is also Canadian-born. Two noted Canadian-born actors. Walter. Huston and Raymond Massey had the honor of portraying America's great President Lincoln. Canadian and American boys Canada's vast plains produce quantities of wheat as well as large herds of cattle. cat-tle. At right is seen a trapper in the Hudson Bay section sec-tion which produces much fur for clothing cloth-ing and commercial purposes. and girls feel quite at home in eacn other's countries. They play the same games and when they move from one country to the other, they keep on in their schools much as they did at home. Between Canada and the United States there is an exchange of war-supplies. war-supplies. Each country is producing the war goods she is best able to produce, Canada, for example, produces pro-duces hundreds of thousands of airplane propellers for the United States and the United States produces pro-duces airplane engines for Canada. Thousands of Americans visit Canada every year for the fishing in the rivers and lakes and to hunt in her vast forests. Most highly-prized fish are salmon, sal-mon, black bass and speckled and rainbow trout. The salmon are found in rivers flowing into the Atlantic ocean and the gulf of St. Lawrence on the east coast and in the rivers flowing into the Pacific. Speckled trout, black bass and other excellent game fish abound in inland lakes and rivers across the entire country. In the far north of Canada, immense im-mense herds of caribou and reindeer rein-deer roam the barren lands, living on the thick moss of the Arctic. The caribou are the chief source of meat for some of the Indian tribes and the Eskimos. It is in the far north that the famed Mounted Police, now called the Royal Cenadian Mounted Police, Po-lice, still fulfill their original job of preserving law and order on the frontiers of civilization. In addition, however, they have the duties of a modern police force for the whole Dominion, something like the Fed' eral Bureau of Investigation, Among the animals of Canada's plains and forests are the buffalo, the antelope, elk, black bear and the big grizzly bear ot the Fai West. Many of the furs and fur coats in American city store windows are from fur-bearing animals of Canada. These include the beaver, the in dustrious dweller of the woods, who dams streams and builds his house from sticks and mud fashioned in an intricate manner. Being one of the most intelligent of the four-footed four-footed animals he has been chosen, along with the colorful Maple leaf, as a symbolic emblem of Canada |