By Kevin Lippert
It really is referred to as the world's friendliest border. 5 thousand miles of unfenced, unwalled overseas coexistence and an emblem of neighborly goodwill among nice countries: the U.S. and Canada. yet simply how pleasant is it rather? In War Plan Red, the key "cold conflict" among the U.S. and Canada is published in complete and funny detail.
With colourful maps and ancient imagery, the breezy textual content walks the reader via each element of the long-simmering rivalry—from the "Pork and Beans conflict" among Maine and Newfoundland lumberjacks, to the "Pig battle" of the San Juan Islands, culminating with excerpts from genuine declassified invasion plans the Canadian and U.S. militaries drew up within the Twenties and Thirties. an ideal reward for background buffs (and Canadians and americans alike), War Plan Red bargains up a brand new wrinkle within the ever-evolving background of North American continental kinfolk.
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Four) Nickel. the area construction of nickel in 1933 was once approximately 50,736 plenty, of which approximately eighty two% originated within the Sudbury district, north of Georgian Bay in Ontario. the remaining got here mainly from New Caledonia (Fr. ). a brand new deposit of nickel used to be lately chanced on in northern Saskatchewan yet has no longer but been labored. Nickel is important to and fundamental in warfare. regulate of the Sudbury mines, in case of conflict, is consequently of significant significance. (5) Petroleum. The creation of crude oil or petroleum in Canada in the course of 1934 amounted to 1,417,368 barrels, largely from the Turner Valley box in Alberta. A small volume can be acquired from wells close to Monkton, New Brunswick and in southwest Ontario, among Lake Huron and Lake Erie. significant amounts also are imported from the USA. (6) Zinc. Canada ranks fourth one of the worlds manufacturers of zinc. Her output in 1934 totaled 298,579,531 kilos. The vital generating mines can be found within the Kootenay district of British Columbia and close to Flin-Flon in northwest Manitoba. nearly 2/3 of the zinc exported is going to nice Britain. d. production. (1) common. Canada is the second one biggest production state within the British Empire, with Ontario and Québec an important business facilities. The relative status of some of the provinces in the course of 1933, in response to the price of goods synthetic, used to be nearly as follows: Ontario $1,000,000,000. Québec 650,000,000. British Columbia* 146,500,000. Manitoba 91,000,000. Alberta 55,000,000. Nova Scotia 53,000,000. New Brunswick 45,000,000. Saskatchewan 36,000,000. Prince Edward Island 3,000,000. *Includes Yukon Territory The important industries ranked based on gross price of goods (1932) are: Pulp and Paper $123,415,492. significant electric Stations 117,532,081. Non-ferrous steel smelting 100,561,297. Slaughtering and meat packing 92,366,137. Flour and nutrients generators 83,322,099. Butter and Cheese 80,395,887. Petroleum items 70,268,265. Bread and different bakery product 51,244,162. Cotton yarn and fabric 51,197,628. Printing and publishing 50,811,968. garments manufacturing unit, women’s 44,535,823. cars 42,885,643. Rubber items 41,511,556. Hosiery and knitted items 40,997,210. Sawmills 39,438,057. (2) Munitions. (a) airplane. There are at this time six enterprises production plane as follows: Canadian-Vickers....... Montreal, Que. De Haviland............ Toronto, Ont. Curtis Reid............ Cartierville, Que. Fairchild.............. Longueuil, Que. Boeing................. Vancouver, B. C. Ottawa automobile Mfg. Co..... Ottawa, Que. Aero engine factories were proven by way of: Armstrong-Siddeley automobiles Co. at Ottawa, Que. Aero Engines of Canada at Montreal, Que. Canadian Pratt-Whitney airplane Co. at Longueuil, Que. (b) Miscellaneous. through the international struggle Canada verified her skill to divert her peace time industries to the creation of munitions, whilst she synthetic and exported huge amounts of shells, fuses, cartridge situations, explosives, gun forgings, desktop weapons and small hands ammunition.