The Story: A young Londoner, Hector Court, answers an advertisement for a secretary “who must be physically fit." He goes down to Monk’s Mount, Hoddesdon, Herts, where he meets a Mr. Absalom who subjects him, to a series of physical tests and offers him the position.By ALAN SULLIVAN43 min
CANADA’S imports of petroleum and its products last year amounted to $61,675,989 in value. The total output of the Dominion’s oil wells in the same year reached a total of 630,405 barrels, with an aggregate value of $2,058,935. On the basis of last year’s consumption our domestic production was sufficient to supply our market for a period of twelve days only.By A. W. BLUE9 min
Being a chapter from the adventures of one who filled the unique role of scribe-prospector in the mining pioneers’ Great Push to wrest from Nature the secrets of Canada's northern hinterlandBy ARTHUR LOWE22 min
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