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Show Thirty U. S. Editors Tour Canada s Ontario Province Recently A i , 1, Lfi K.a t i h News & Journal Publisher Charles W. was selected as one of the thirty United States editors to be invited on the 10th annual goodwill tour of Ontario Province, Canada, this year. Clay-baug- i t 1 ' hK i Only one publisher from a state was invited, and the tour this year was the first time a Utah editor Lm was included. it, Starting at Windsor, across the river from Deall expense paid trip made a circle troit, the of the province, with overnight stops at London, Niagara Falls, Kitehner, two nights at Toronto, aboard a lake steamer, the S. S. Norgoma, Okeecho11-da- y, bee Lodge, North Bay, Ottawa, Kingston and sor. Wind- All of the principal towns and cities in the province were visited during the tour, as well as many i Famous Rainbow bridge linking Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls, New York, seen in the distance, is typical of the 5,000 mile unguarded border between the two nations. The only formality required in crossing the line is to report through customs. Passports are unnecessary but iden tification may be requested. Purchases made must be listed upon reentering and cannot exceed $200 without payment of duty on short stays, $500 if visit is for 12 or more days. it f M historical points of interest. Pictured some of the important spots visited. Indicative of the exploding economy of Ontario is the Sir Adam Generating Station No. 2 now under construction at Niagara Falls, Ontario. When completed it will produce more than 1,000,000 horsepower and will cost an estimated $200,000,000.00, plus an additional $70,000,000.00 for a reservoir to store water during k periods, in order to provide extra power during the peak periods. Even with this added hydro power the Province will be faced again with an electric power shortage in 1957. Beck-Niag- here are off-pea- - Visiting the capital city of Canada. Ottawa, the 30 editors were received by the Rt. Hon. Brooke Claxton, acting prime minister who gave a lucid and fluent account of the difference between the United States constitution and that of Canada, seen above on the steps of the Parliament Buildings, hands in Mr. Claxton wearing pockets and answered quesglasses tions fired at him by the visiting editors. - i Above are seen some of Canadas finest, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, putting on a revolver shoot for the party. The group was informed that they do not go in for fancy shooting; just try and stop the man as quickly as possible, they said. If the Mounties above are any example, it would 4 be just as well for any lawbreakers if they stayed put when asked to halt. J Above is a scene from the Norgama, which took the party from Owen Sound across Georgian Bay to Killarney. Here the Norgama is pulling into Killarney escorted by an outboard motorboat and a local seaplane. The Norgama was built in the Collingwood shipyards in 1950, and is a modern passenger-shi- p in every respect. Asjde from a very real desire to welcome the 30 editors from 30 different states, making the Tenth Annual U. S. Editors Goodwill Tour of Ontario, the residents of Collingwood, Ontario, endeavored to acquaint them with one of the principal industries of the city. In the upper picture a group of the editors are examining a large lake steamer in its preliminary stages of construction. A trip through the Hamilton plant of the Steel Company of Canada was an enlightening experience for most of the 30 editors and publishers comprising the tour. One of the Big Ten steel mills in the world, the Hamilton plant turns out a greater variety of steel shapes and forms than any other single plant in the world. Here the party is watching for the red-hcoke to be pushed out of the ovens. A thorough tour of the plant allowed the group to see steel in the making from the red-hmolten metal stage, when a furnace was tapped, to finished railway spikes being punched out at the rate of one per second. ot - CV W, .it At Camp Petawawa running waiers in Indian language the visitors were shown inside and outside of the latest Centurion tank, a British tank now in use in Korea. While visiting Toronto, the capital city of Ontario, the 30 editors were given a quick tour of the downtown area culminating in a visit to the Parliament Buildings. The Ontario Legislative Assembly, to give it its proper name is a one house government, in contrast to the federal government with its House of Commons and Senate. Here the Hon. Dana Porter, Attorney-Generfor Ontario, is seen explaining the constitutional set-u- p of the government to the group. In the immediate foreground is the Mace, symbol of the fact that authority for the government comes from direct vote of the people for every member of the government, including all Cabinet who must be elected members of the Legislative Assembly before they can become Cabinet Ministers. al Minis-water- s, Each publisher on the tour was given a box camera and two rolls of films, with prizes offered for the h three best snapshots. won the third prize with this shot of Mack DenClay-baug- man, Farmington, Mo, aqd the four pound great northern pike he caught. j 0B j; $ ? Mdp fabam Seft .? stresses a m m J S Vt? S2jBfci sal Brantford, Ontario, home of Alexander Graham Bell reminds visitors constantly of the fact it was here that he invented and used the first telephone. (As was the case in those days he could not convince his fellow Canadians that this was a revolutionary development with great commercial possibi lities and had to go to the United States for capital and encouragement.) Here part of the group of 30 , editors and publishers comprising the Tenth Annual U. S. Editors Goodwill Tour of Ontario, inspect the record stating that the first transmission of clear, intelligible speech was made between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, on August 10th, 1876. - |