OUR PEN PALS

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 18

OUR PEN PALS

The great Dominion of Canada is a country with a colourful and exciting past—and we still continue to be thrilled by stories telling of the courage and determination of its first white settlers.

When Jacques Cartier, that brave French explorer, sailed up the St. Lawrence River, he jumped to the conclusion that lie had found the desired short way to the rich lands of the east. If you have read your history books yoi| will recall that Christopher Columbus a similar He called the native "Indians"—the' name by which they are known to this very da v.

Below you will find the names, addresses and hobbies of four Canadian pen-friends. Fverybody interested in Cannda'-s story will be sure to find correspondence with these boys and girls especially interesting. Rose Weiss lives in Alberta, and is 10 years age. She makes knitting, skating and cycling her special hobbies, and her full address is: — ROSE WEISS, Hilda. Box If. X; Albert a, Canada. ; Casmer"Stanwyck is old apd is Interested 1 chiefly in 'correspondence. Write to liim atir-V v. CASMKR STANWYCK* P.O. Melrose. VManitoba. Canada. Next we bave another girl fien-friend. 15-vear-old Triidy Friesehj likes 'ennis, swimming., and dating, so she should find many. frleiffts^.inr-thls atoftxy. Here is her -address "SmA-" TRCDY FUTKSEN, Gretna, Box 03. Manitoba. Canada. Lastly, we have another Trudie— Trudie Jn'nning this time. Trudie does not state her hobbies, but she is 1 j years old : aid lives at:— TRUJJIE J ANN INC,, ' > Darfield, ' " British Columbia.