Arvida High School - Yearbook (Arvida, Quebec Canada)

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GIRLS SENIOR SOFTBALL TEAM Left to right: Front row: Ethel Soper. Joyce Black, Helen Gordon. Veronica Boland, Jean Woodwark. Back row Anne Hudson, Norma McLeod, Anne Thomson, Olga Hrycko, Moyna Beresford, SENIOR GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM Left to right: Back rowg Moyna Beresford, Katherine Woodwark, Anne Thomson, Jean Woodwark. Olga Hrycko. Front row, Ethel Soper, Joyce Black, Helen Gordon, Veronica Boland, Anne Hudson. S 1 I

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Z4 THE WINNING SPEECH OF l95l CANA A, MY FUTURE What will Canada my country, be like du- ring the next fifty years? I think that Canada has a greater future than any other country in the world. In this talk I am going to con- sider Canada's future from the economic point of view. Canada, since the war, is rapidly deve- loping in industrial expansion. Canada has more hydroelectric power than it knows what to do with. It has a sea route on the east and on the west. There is a plentiful supply of labour. Canada has undeveloped ore bodies whose size no one really knows. With these assets no wonder Canada's industry is growing in leaps and bounds. It is difficult to predict the future of Canada during the next fifty years. The only way to get an idea is to think of the way Canada has progressed in the last fifty years. As an example I will take the Saguenay valley, which is familiar to us all. What was it like fifty years ago? Farming was the only industry. There was no Alumi- num Company, No Shipshaw Power House. No Price Brothers paper mills. The city of Chicoutimi was about lf 10th its Size. There was no such thing as the city of Arvida. There were no large boats coming into Port Alfred with tons and tons of raw material for indus- try. There were no planes roaring into Bagot- ville with mail of the same day. Neither was there a beautiful paved highway with trans- ports speeding along it carrying merchandise from Montreal. There were no freight trains with car after car filled with tons of coke and bauxite for the Aluminum plant. Since the Saguenay valley has advanced this much in the last fifty years, what will it be like during the next fifty years? Will all the sections opening up in Canada expand like this? There is a great future for the mining industry in Quebec. A vein of nickel has just been found in Ungava which may be the richest in Canada. A mountain of titanium, a new metal, has been discovered on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. This deposit of titanium is the largest in the world. It will be processed at Sorel. Near the Quebec-Labrador border great iron deposits have been found. This iron ranks among the top three new industrial develop- ments in the world today. Two hundred million dollars is being in- vested in this iron venture. A 360 mile railroad has been started to connect this mining area with ocean shipping on the St. Lawrence. Within a few years this iron industry will be earning millions of dollars for Canada. About 140 miles from this iron is one of the greatest undeveloped water power sites in the world. The Hamilton River drops 305 feet which is 1 2f 3 times as steep as Niagara Falls. Its possible power is 1 million 250 thousand horse power, which is as great as Shipshaw. Over the past few years there has been a great increase in activity in the oil fields in Alberta. Accordng to the newspapers, this is only the beginning. These oil fields supply a good part of Canada with oil. If production keeps in- creasing'Canada may be able to supply all her own oil. We, in eastern Canada, get this oil very cheaply, This is because an inter-provin- cial pipe line was built from Alberta to Lake Superior. There are not only huge projects beginning in Canada. There are hundreds of small indus- tries springing up all over Canada which all contribute to the country's industrialgrowth. This increase in industries over the past fifty years has resulted in a great increase in Canada's population. Dozens of countries outrank Canada in population but none have excelled it in population growth during the past fifty years. In that time the population has nearly tripled to a present 14,000,000 It is not difficult to imagine that the next fifty years will see an even greater increase. The international crisis may or may not improve, but each day our country grows older and wiser, and its people and industries grow more and more important to the modern world. Looking ahead we can think of the day when Canada will be second to none, and her industries and natural resources will be among the richest and most profitable in the world. BRENDA BAUMAN

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BOYS SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM Left to right: I Front row: Donald Stewart, Bobby Beredy, Arthur McLeod,.Dav1d Allan. Back row: Alex Olyarchuck, Brian Santoni, Edward Neff, Billy Hurley, Bobby Hamel. In the Fall of 1951, the Senior Basketball Team of Arvida High played an exhibition game against Kenogami High School. This game was played in the Memorial Hall. To our sorrow we lost, but after the game we thought that we did very well until Dr. McGeer, the man who refereed the game, started telling us all our faults and mistakes. So, to tell the truth, we really made a mess of the whole game. A few weeks later we asked Dr. McGeer to be our coach, which he very readily accepted. By his patience and knowledge of the game, he made us into a team that could give any other team a good run for the game. Dr. McGeer also arranged during the year many games against a city team. These games were played at the Gym of A.H.S. Now that the basketball season is over the boys all feel that they owe all their knowledge of basketball to a fine coach, and to show their thanks to Dr, McGeer they all got together and gave him a subscription to LIFE magazine. So, for the boys that will be on the basketball next Year, we would advise you to try to get in touch with Dr. McGeer. We are sure he would be very ready to help out in this fine sport basketball.