CANADA: Churchill

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In spite of its hundreds of workmen and laborers, Churchill still had no permanent residents last week beyond the trappers, the police, the Eskimos and the Hudson's Bay factor. This is by government order. The engineers who built Churchill harbor have made an ambitious town plan for Churchill. There are to be parks and playgrounds, wide streets, residential and business districts. Because of Churchill's subarctic winters most of the inhabitants will live in small apartment houses heated from a central station. Special arrangements for water supply and sewage disposal will have to be made. To prevent famine and plague, the Canadian Government will not allow any settlers until next year when the building will be well under way. With the first freezing of the harbor this year, Churchill's present population must move out.

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