ATE Tone Magazine - Summer 1956 - Edge Lane

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and Cold 3gr= My trip to the Dominion*to discuss technical details of new telephone exchanges-enabled me to cover more than 15J000 miles iq 15 diferent aircraft, with stops in Montreal) TorontoJ Winnipeg and several other localities. Canadians, I found, are like their American cousins in their attitudc to work : from stating to quitting time, ir's heads down and high pressure all the way. And, as you pmbably kno$', in theh free time, they play as hard as they work. Outside rhe snow may be several feet thick on the pavements but in Canadian of[ces and homes, the temperature seems almost as high as my colleague found in Cairo. With central heating in every room, most people work in their shirt sleeves. Thcsc warm rooms proved useful when 1 lost my hat one morning on the lvay to a conference. The wind whisked away my trilby as I was mtering a cab outside my hotel. The hat vanished into a snoq'drift and I gave it up as lost. Next day, however, I stumbled across the headpiece rvhich had become tmpped under a I-ence. The hat was full ofsnow and as stif as a saucepan. I ieft it in the wash-basin at the hotel and cent€l heating soon thawed it out. The hat was ready lot weat once mole. 'What were my main recollections of this oldigtpt s ancierlr Great Sphinx and Pyani.l iairo's t r anspart-a/Lcient and modern A Cana.lin snoL! scelte---picturesque on a postcard., but irot so ?leasant for the inhabitants 22 It *"" t*"oty degrees below zero on the tarmac at Montreal's snow-swept civic airport as our Stratocruiser flew in from lceland. The ground crew wore lur-lined parkas and heavy leather mitts protected their hands from possible bums as they manocuvred the frost-encrusted metal gangplanks into the cabin door\,vay. Canada was shivering under winter's thrcadbare blanket. The day I aIlived a tough inspector of the famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police froze to death in a snowbound car at a place called Cutknile in Saskarchewan, abandofled trucks littered invisible rcads for thousands of miles, blizzards tore scleaming acloss iron-hard prairies and river transport was at a halt for months to
Ottaua's Pedce To"uer framed ay by !n0@-t0uerea snow-coxered orunctes branches young country ? The vast areas *'ere certainly an cye*opener and the differences between bustling, modcrn cities, such as l{/innipcg and ronanlLc, timbcred -(ettlements such as Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat, were also surprising to the traveller. It would be equally dificuh to forget the grandcur of the Great Lakes ftom the air and the sweeping gentleness of the winter plains, but it's usually the smalir personal things that people remember most of all. I'nl no exception and I enjoyed dozens of dclighrfui personal advcntures during my rrip. I'd like ro tell you about onc. . . . A biring wind and soft po\\,dery sno\,\, had brought lhc outside temperature down to almost fifty degrees below zcro. I tottered gratefully into the vralmth of a corner drugstore and orde.ed a .calding hol cup olcoffee. The atrendanl. in near white overalls, brought the cofee andr thenr without batring an eyeiid, handed me-a glass oI rced water, llot and cold ? I had 6dr& in Canada.
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