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As a commercial printing facility, Imperial Printing has been in operation for over fifty years. Over the past eight years, the company has expanded its services with the addition of a team of experienced designers and marketers. Our client base has dictated the need for a facility that can translate a design perspective and efficiently communicate the vision throughout the production process. By building a design service that is directly partnered with the mechanical and digital process of visual concepts, Imperial has created a niche market that is creative, intuitive and cost efficient. Imperial’s production and design services have successfully completed complicated PowerPoint presentations that have been converted to movies for streamlining cross-platform. We have designed outdoor landscape displays and museum banners for municipal attractions; developed color scheme and decor pieces for franchise clients; created concepts for production of corporate awards utilizing unique materials; and have directed/co-written radio advertisements. Our creativity is not limited to the printing process - it extends to three dimensional objects, multi-media applications, packaging, web sites and more. Calendar Trivia Question and Answer 2007 December What is Alberta's Provincial Motto? FORTIS ET LIBER - Strong and Free November Who is Canada's most decorated war hero? Other Canadians, including flamboyant pilot Billy Bishop, have received more medals, but the hero who received the most decorations for gallantry before the enemy (as in U.S. military tradition), is Lieutenant Colonel William Barker. In fact, in his book "Barker VC, William Barker, Canada's Most Decorated War Hero," author Wayne Ralph describes Barker as "the most decorated hero not just of the First World War but of all our wars." Gallantry awards won by the prairie farmer's son from Dauphin, Manitoba, are: The Victoria Cross; the Distinguished Service Order and Bar; the Military Cross and Two Bars; the French Croix-de-Guerre; two Italian Silver Medals for Valour, plus three Mentions-in- Despatches. The Canadian Daily Record of the Overseas Military Forces of Canada once wrote that Barker "the third Canadian airman to win the VC...holds the record among Canadians for fighting decorations won during the war." In all, Barker was recognized 12 times for gallantry while flying with Britain's Royal Flying Corps and later with the Royal Air Force. This number of awards probably makes him the most decorated military hero in what was the British Empire. Barker developed a love for flying while watching demonstration flights at industrial exhibitions in Winnipeg between 1910 and 1914. He won his Victoria Cross on Oct. 27, 1918 for singlehandedly taking on between 15 and 30 German flyers in Fokker D.VII scout planes while piloting a Sopwith Snipe over the Mormal Forest in France. He was credited with destroying four enemy machines but was shot down in the battle and almost died. In total, he had victories over 50 enemy aircraft during his air force career, 46 while piloting the same aircraft, Sopwith Camel B6313. At reunions long after the war, Barker's former air force pals remembered him as a "god-like, larger than life warrior," writes Ralph. Ottawa historian Fred Gaffen, head of publishing at the Canadian War Museum, describes Barker as a "hero and an idol...a daring type of guy." Canadian air ace Bishop, a Lieutenant Colonel who was born in Owen Sound, Ont., was credited with 72 victories and was awarded eight gallantry awards, plus two Mentions-in-Despatches, including the Victoria Cross for his single-handed attack on a German airfield on June 2, 1917. At the end of World War 1, Barker had logged more than 900 flying hours, Bishop about 400. Bishop won another award, the Commander of the Bath, in World War II but it was for his contributions to the war effort, not for gallantry. After the war, Barker and Bishop ran an aircraft company in Toronto that had financial difficulties and folded in 1922. Barker joined the Canadian Air Force as wing commander in 1922 and was acting director of the Royal Canadian Air Force when it was born on April 1, 1924. He stayed with the RCAF until 1926, during which time he was one of those who were instrumental in having parachutes introduced to both the RCAF and the RAF. In 1926, with his ambition to head the RCAF stalled, and plagued by post traumatic stress disorder and physical pain from his combat wounds, he turned to alcohol. He served briefly as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, likely in 1927-28, and later was employed as vice-president and general manager of Fairchild Aircraft Ltd. He died on March 12, 1930, at age 35, in a peacetime air crash at Rockcliffe, Royal Canadian Air Force Ottawa Air Station, in Ottawa, Ont. The tragedy occurred while Barker was demonstrating an open cockpit biplane known as the Fairchild KR-21. Newspaper reports said his state funeral in Toronto on March 15, 1930, was attended by 50,000 people and described it as the largest to date in the city's history. October Where was Western Canada’s first roll of newspaper made? Powell River began to flourish in 1908, when logging began in the area. Four years later, the new pulp and paper mill produced the first newsprint in Western Canada. September How long does it take for water to pass through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean? On average, a drop of water which finds its way into Lake Superior from runoff or rainfall takes more than two centuries to travel through the Great Lakes system and along the St. Lawrence River to the ocean, says Environment Canada. To be precise, water which entered Superior in 1794 - the year the reign of terror came to an end in France following the French revolution - didn't make it to the Atlantic until 1998. The travelling time is based on retention times, or how long, on average, it takes for each of the lakes to replace its water with new water. To get a grip on this theory, think of each of the lakes as a 10-gallon bathtub with the drain slightly open and the tap running slowly. If one gallon of water flows in and another out every minute, after 10 minutes you will have emptied 10 gallons and added 10 new gallons. One drop might come in through the tap and go out the drain in only a few seconds, while another drop might stay in the tub for an hour or more, but the average length of stay is 10 minutes. In Lake Superior, the tap is rain and runoff and the drain is the St. Marys River, which flows into Lake Huron. After 173 years, much of the water in Superior has flowed out of the lake and been replaced with new water. In Lake Huron replacement averages 21 years; Lake Erie, 2.7 years and Lake Ontario, 7.5 years. Add the numbers together and you will see that drops of water which fell into Lake Superior in 1794 worked their way to the Atlantic slightly more than 204 years later. It should be noted that all of the water in each of the Great Lakes is never completely replaced. For instance, 37 per cent of the water that was in Lake Superior 173 years ago is still there, says Environment Canada. August What is the narrowest building in Canada? Exploring Vancouver 2, a guide to the city and its buildings, once quoted Ripley's Believe It Or Not as saying the narrowest building in the world - and therefore Canada - is located on Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Looking at the building from the side, it is four-feet, 11 inches wide and is 96 feet long along the street. It was built out of spite by prominent businessman Sam Kee, says the book, written by Harold Kalman. It housed an insurance sales office. The book says the city had expropriated most of Kee's property to widen Pender Street but refused to compensate him for a narrow, remaining strip of land. His neighbour, in turn expected to receive the strategic corner property very cheaply. Kee responded by erecting the narrow, two-storey building in 1913, using bay windows to add extra space. Its basement, which once contained communal baths, extends well under the street. The late Bill Birmingham, a Vancouver architect who was co-owner of the building from 1966 until the early 1980s, said the structure was odd enough to attract the attention of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not television show several years ago when his architectural firm occupied its second floor. "It was a lot of fun. We couldn't have any fat employees, they couldn't get by one another," he quipped. July Which Prime Minister of Canada officially opened the Trans-Canada Highway to traffic? At Rogers Pass, BC, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker officially opens the Trans-Canada Highway to traffic, eliminating the final 160 km of dusty, gravel road from Golden to Revelstoke. Running almost 9000 km, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria BC, the Trans Canada is the longest national highway in the world; construction began in 1950. June What is Canada's most valuable coin? Money experts say the Canadian coin worth the most money is the 1911 silver dollar, which is valued at more than $1 million. Its value is that high because only two were made, says Graham Esler, curator at the Bank of Canada Currency Museum in Ottawa. Both were patterns made by the Royal Mint in London, England, for a set which was to include the silver dollar and gold coins worth two-and-half dollars, $5, $10 and $20. They were authorized under the Dominion of Canada Currency Act, 1910, but for some reason the federal government of the day changed its mind and cancelled the silver dollar and the rest of the set. A year later, however, the $5 and $10 coins were struck in gold. But nothing ever became of the 1911 silver dollar or the gold 1911 two-and-a-half and $20 dollar coins. The 1911 silver dollar depicts King George the V and is 92.5 per cent silver. It weighs 23.3 grams and is 36 millimetres in diameter. So where are the two silver dollar patterns? One is on display at the Bank of Canada Currency Museum, which also owns and displays the lead strike which was used to mint the pattern coins. The other was owned, last we heard, by American collector/dealer Jay Perrino. He purchased it for more than $1 million from Albern Coins and Foreign Exchange Ltd. in Calgary, which had owned it since 1996. May What Canadian university was the first to accept women? Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to confer a Bachelor's degree to a woman; (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc. 1875). It was also the first university in Canada to grant a Bachelor of Arts to a woman; (Harriet Starr Stewart). April What other names besides Canada were suggested before it officially became a country in 1867? Although it ended up as the name Dominion of Canada, there were several others discussed at the time, in both the press and among politicians and citizens. Some of the favorite suggestions were New Britain, Laurentia and Brittania. A union of the Maritimes had also been discussed and Acadia was the frontrunner name for that. It was also considered a possibility for the entire country. Other suggestions included Cabotia, Columbia, Canadia, and Ursalia. By agreeing to the name Canada, both Lower and Upper Canada had to change their names, to Quebec and Ontario respectively. March In 1966 the first all-Canadian space project launches an instrument package to study which atmoshereic phenomenon? Canada launches 158 kg. instrument package into upper atmosphere; to study aurora borealis; first all-Canadian space project, using Black Brant rocket in Churchill Manitoba. February In which of the following areas would you expect the highest
demand for energy? The Industrial Sector has the highest demand for energy use. This sector used 2,313,106 terajoules last year followed very closely by the transportation sector with 2,242,042 terajoules of consumption. January Where was Canada's first oil boom? Most people think the initial activity in Canada's oil industry occurred in Oil Springs, Ontario, or Turner Valley, Alberta, where oil was discovered in 1857 and 1904, respectively. If you are talking about a petroleum oil boom, you are right. A boom involving another kind of oil, however, took place in the Labrador fisheries off Canada's east coast, hundreds of years earlier. In the sixteenth century, a full-blown whale-oil industry existed on the coast of Labrador for about five generations, between the first voyages of Jacques Cartier in 1534 and those of Samuel de Champlain in 1603. The 1970s scholar Selma Barkham found the remains of the fisheries and primitive refineries established by the Spanish Basques in Red Bay, Labrador. Nine whaling stations employed about two thousand whalers, who for six months of the year, hunted about twenty thousand bowhead and right whales, refined their oil, and supplied the product to the ports of Bristol, Southampton, London and Flanders. Return next month for Janaury's question and answer. |
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