How to make outpost homes in Canada / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare.

  • Helen MacMurchy
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: How to make outpost homes in Canada / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Aviation can play an important part in de- velopment of the vast territories lying to the north of our present railroads, by providing a method of transportation and observation, fast, reliable and easy, as an alternative to the canoe, dog and pack train by which these immense dis- tances must be covered under present conditions. The protection of our forest resources from fire; their survey by aerial photography and sketch- ing; the transportation and maintenance of survey parties in the field; mapping from aerial photographs; and other similar work is the most practical line of development for civil aviation in Canada and the one on which the energies of the Air Service are, and have been, directed from the beginning. Thanks to the ready and generous co-operation received from all branches of the Government engaged in work of this nature, much progress has already been made in opening up these new fields for aviation.” “ Sixty-one hours flying was carried out for the Department of Agriculture, in connection with their investigation of the white pine blister rust outbreak in British Columbia. The officer in charge of the field parties on this work writes as follows: ‘ Our staff is so small, and the disease has been found to be so much more prevalent than we had expected, that we were very doubt-
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