Excerpted from the issue about the Somme:

Fighting for more rights for women
Having won women the vote in three provinces, feminist Nellie McClung is pushing hard to extend the right to all nine.
“Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl,” the former teacher, 43, declared recently….

Allied secret weapon fails:
The Somme was the bloody stage for the debut of the Allies’ top-secret weapon, the mighty Model D-1 tank. German soldiers had “fear in their eyes” when the D-1 rumbled toward them, according to an observer.
Tanks, which evolved from armoured cars, were never used in battle before. For months, under ultra-hush-hush conditions, Allied engineers have been developing the D-1s….

Funny Canadian conquers London
London has been conquered – but not by the Germans. A bright, funny Canadian actress known for twirling her pearls onstage is bringing laughter to the British at a time when they most need it.
Born May 29, 1894 in t6he Parkdale area of Toronto, Beatrice Lillie got her start in producer Andre Charlot’s reviews after accompanying her older sisters Muriel and Lucy to London….

One-eyed hockey star lied to join the army
Hockey great Frank McGee, who enlisted in the Canadian army despite being blind in the left eye, has died in Courcelette, France, a fatality of the Battle of the Somme.
A player from 1903-07, McGee was the bulwark of the franchise consisting of the Ottawa Hockey Club and the Ottawa Silver Seven.

Excerpted from the issue about the Canadian-Soviet hockey series:

He scoffed, then ate his words
Globe & Mail sports columnist Dick Beddoes was among many who scoffed at the Soviet Team in the Summit series.
“Canada, eight games to zero,” he arrogantly wrote. “If the Soviets win one game, I will eat this column, shredded, at high noon in a bowl of borscht on the front steps of the Soviet embassy.”….

Canadian dollar floats at par with US
Travelling in the United States? You may not have to bother exchanging Canadian dollars for US ones any more – the two currencies are now eyeball to eyeball.
After the government’s 1970 announcement that it would stop pegging our currency to a fixed US rate of value, the Canadian dollar floated slowly upward. It began its rise from 97 cents in 1970, reaching 99 cents last year, and now par….

Joni blossoms into a darker mood
There’s a new, darker mood to folk-rock singer Joni Mitchell – and the critics are loving it. In her latest album, For the Roses, the blonde McLeod, Alberta native, who grew up in Saskatchewan, sounds detached and at times gritty about life and love….

The goalie they should hate won all hearts
Canadians should have hated Vladislav Alexandrovich Tretiak. After all, we viewed the Soviet team as the Communist enemy, as “the Red Army.” But we just had to admire Tretiak’s goaltending. He was a deft as any goalie in the National Hockey League….

Melanie Jackson, a former journalist with a special interest in history, is a writer with the B.C. School Trustee Association and author of the Dinah Galloway mystery series of books.
Brian Weigel is an elementary school teacher in Kitchener, Ontario and is on the executive of the Ontario History and Social Science Teachers Association.

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