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Nowhere in the country is electricity so keenly appreciated as in the rural
areas where the expanding network of hydro lines is stretching out over the
countryside. Farms are being converted into efficient productive units.
Electrical machinery and other modern implements have helped Canadian
farms produce more than four times their capacity at the turn of the century.
Electricity to the farm wife often means an end to emptying ashes from her
kitchen stove, to bending over the washtub, to a shortage of hot water for
cleansing the cream separator. Given electricity, the farmer can milk twice
as many cows by machine as he can by hand. Many of the chores that were
at one time arduous are now performed by electrical machinery with the
flick of a switch.
More spectacular is the vast use of electricity in Canadian manufacturing.
Every province in Canada has some development of hydro-electric power and
new dams are being built in every region this year. Due to the high concen-
tration of power on the St. Maurice River, more newsprint is produced in the
district of Grand’Mere, Shawinigan Falls and Three Rivers than anywhere
else in the world. For reasons of economy, bauxite is brought all the way from
British Guiana to the Province of Quebec to be converted into aluminum by
hydro-electric power generated at power sites alongside the Laurentian rivers.
A great variety of industries has been created in these areas of Canada so
highly endowed with readily accessible and plentiful supplies of water power.
The production of electric power in Canada can be illustrated by certain
comparisons: Canada produces almost four times per capita the electric
power generated in the United Kingdom, and almost twice that of Sweden.
The province of Quebec, alone, produces twice that of Norway, and the wood
and paper industry in this same province consumes more electric power than
is produced in Switzerland for all purposes.
Canada is indeed fortunate in possessing this wealth of water power. While
it means comfort, convenience and a high standard of living for Canadians,
it is also a contribution to the world’s wealth in terms of low-cost production
of many of the world’s needs.
in Canada and abroad.
Program Notes
There are two daily CBC Inter-
national Service transmissions for
listeners in the United Kingdom.
Program times and frequencies are
listed on the chart enclosed in this
booklet.
News. The latest news on Canadian
and international developments is
broadcast three times daily.
MIDWEEK COMMENTARY (Wednes-
days). Each week authoritative
speakers discuss topics of current
importance.
WEEKEND COMMENTARY (Saturdays).
An end-of-the-week review of events
April 2,
Robert McKeown, Ottawa corre-
spondent for The Montreal Standard;
April 9 and 23, Maurice Western in
Regina. April 16 and 30, John Bird
speaks from Ottawa.
Actualities and Interviews
CANADIAN CHRONICLE (Monday to
Friday). CBC correspondents across
Canada report twice daily on people
and happenings throughout the land.
CANADIANS AT WORK (Fridays). A
series of documentary broadcasts de-
scribing Canadian employment and
Canadian production methods.
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