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Program Notes

Each day four English language trans-
missions are directed to listeners 1n
the United Kingdom and in Europe.
Frequencies and program times are
outlined on the chart on pages 10 and
11 of this booklet.

News and Commentary

News. Canadian and international
news is broadcast during each of the
four transmissions.

Daily Commentaries Following
News (except Saturdays). <A four-
minute topical commentary follows
the news bulletin to Europe at 2200
GMT. Sundays: January 1, A special
New Year’s commentary by the Rt.
Hon. Louis St. Laurent; January 3,
Professor Meredith Jones of the
French Department of the University
of Manitoba; January 15, Professor
Meredith Jones; January 22, Brother
Bernard of Laval University describes
the Acadians in the Maritimes; Janu-
ary 29, Burns Adams; Mondays: King
Gordon, special CBC correspondent at
United Nations; Tuesdays: Burton S.
Keirstead, Professor of Economics at
McGill University; Wednesdays: A
weekly commentary on the arts in
Canada by one of Canada’s leading
critics or writers—January 4, Nathan
Cohen of Toronto describes the first
performance of a new Canadian play;
Thursdays: Charles Woodsworth, editor
of "The Ottawa Citizen”, comments
on capital affairs; Fridays: King
Gordon, special CBC correspondent
at United Nations.

Out of the City (Saturdays). A
series of short talks on some of
Canada’s best known winter sports
and winter resorts. January 7, "Rocky
Mountain Winter Resorts” by Pat
Keatley from Vancouver; January 14,
“Logging in Winter” by Robson Black;
January 21, “Laurentian Rhapsody”
(skiing in the Laurentians) by
Kenneth Brown of Montreal; January
28, “Skating and Sleigh Rides”.

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Gordon Burwash continues during January his
interviews with government workers in Ottawa
in the series ‘‘Cross Section”.

Canadian Primer, or the ABC of
Canada (Sundays). A kindergarten
course in fundamental facts about
Canada. From January 1 to January
29 the course will run from I to M.
January 22, “L for Lumbering and
Logging”.

History and Current Affairs

The Canadian Story (Mondays).
Legends and stories of episodes in
Canadian history as well as pictures
of the current Canadian scene are
presented in this series. January 2,
“The Story of the Canadian Mining
Prospector” from the days of the
Gold Rush of 1848, by Robson Black.
January 9, "Pigs, Sticks and Potatoes”
by Margaret Angus of Kingston. This
story is set in the 1830’s at the time
of a large scale emigration to Canada
from the British Isles. January 16,
the little known story of ‘Etienne
Brfilé’’, explorer, adventurer and cou-
reur-de-bois, by Ruth Johnson of
Toronto. January 23, “The North-
west Today” by Colonel Harwood
Steele. January 30, W. O. Mitchell,
author of "Who Has Seen the Wind”,
tells the story about "High River”
which forms the nucleus of his book.

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