Canada Looks To The West

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is the story of the situation in the Pacific, of the men and events which are today influencing the shape of the world for generations to come. To the West, the Pacific are washing the shores of a new Canada, where the rolling waves of the Pacific were cut by hundreds of ships

making the ports of Canada before the war. They were cut by tens of thousands during the war. Canada looked to the West, and crossed the broad Pacific to the islands and plants beyond. In the space of six years, Canadian West made decades of progress, developed from the coastal fringe of the Pacific, deep

into the land of the Great Timber, the rivers, the lakes, the gold, the oil, the uranium. In the space of six years of war, Canada became one of the great nations of the world. Canada won her place on the battlefield.

She is now the fourth most potent fighting power among the United Nations. Canada won her place at sea. She now has the third largest and strongest Navy. Canada won her position in commerce. She is now one of the three great trading nations of the world. And the equal and perhaps greater significance are two other wartime developments.

Canada not only shares the secret of the atomic bomb of the United States and Britain, but has one of the richest radium and uranium sources in the world. Western Canada grew up during the war. Roads, air bases, port facilities, railways were built. Traffic flowed through Western Canada.