CANADIAN DISASTER
Insect Plague; Forest Fires (K ZJ’.A.-Reuter—Copyright) EDMONTON (Alberta), June 8. Forest fires, floods, and insect plagues swept Western Canada today. Forest fires crackled in timber and muskeg in the northern areas as Saskatchewan and Alberta, while hatching grasshoppers and serious infestations of cutworms posed their most serious threat for many years in farmlands of the southern prairie provinces. R.vers on both sides of the international border in the regions of south-eastern British Columbia continued to flood, Canadian Press reported.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29535, 9 June 1961, Page 15
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81CANADIAN DISASTER Press, Volume C, Issue 29535, 9 June 1961, Page 15
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