Summer 2011 Reading List -

[zylon]

Snip from Chapter XXIV - Luxton of Banff

In the first city (Winnipeg) election on January 5, 1874, the elder Luxton was a candidate for mayor but defeated by F.E. Cornish. It was an election bristling with enthusiasm, however, with 308 names on the voters' list and 331 ballots cast and counted. But not even the defeated candidate questioned the integrity of the mayor-elect who, as one of his first acts in the role of chief magistrate, laid a charge against himself for disorderly conduct on a certain night following election, pleaded guilty, fined himself five dollars and paid the fine.

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I Built the Schoolhouse

"When Regina was still in the Northwest Territories, Dad sent a letter to the government there with the object of organizing a school district for our area. They said yes, so notices were posted. I went around putting them up.

"The meeting voted unanimously to organize a school district and they voted to call it Little Flower School District. This was in February of 1904. Mr. Stenerson was elected chairman.

"The first resolution, as I guess it had to be, was that there had to be a school, so in June of 1904, I went around putting up notices saying they were going to bond the district for 600 dollars over 10 years and that was to pay for a school and equipment like desks.

"Then they called for tenders and on June 21 they opened them and they accepted the lowest tender, 135 dollars, for hauling the lumber from town and putting up the school building 18 feet wide, 26 feet long, and 10 feet high and two outhouses, four by four by six. Guess who got the winning bid? Me. H.H. Hanson.

"So that summer I built the schoolhouse and I did it for the price of 135 dollars, which was what I said I'd do it for. I posted the notices about the school district and then about the tenders, and then I submitted my bid and won it and built the school, and then they hired Miss Delougheri as teacher. I was 20 but still didn't have much of an education, it being on the prairies in those days, so that fall I went to school. At the age of 20, I took my lessons in the school that I'd built."


http://www.amazon.ca/The-pioneer-yea.../dp/0385099835

[Toronto.gal]

Last book for 2012 - though a lot of it is nothing new, there were some interesting points [not finished yet]:

10 GOOD REASONS TO INVEST IN CANADA - By: Michael B. Decter [2008]

http://www.ldic.ca/michaelbdecter

Some covered topics:

- Trade & Budget
- Oil Without Wars or Hurricanes
- The Benefit of Natural Gas
- Oil & Gas Service Companies
- Peace, Order & Government Health Care
- The Canadian Play in China
- Glowing in the Dark Uranium
- Real Estate - The Land is Strong
- The Utility of Canadian Utilities
- Solid Financials - from Power Corporations to the Chartered Banks
- Transportation - Boats, Trains, Planes and Helicopters
- Feeding the World Agriculture and Potash