Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that point, the singers will split into two groups, one going to Juneau, Alaska, and the other to Penticton, B.C. They will meet again for a rodeo performance in Calgary, Alberta, and will then move on to Edmonton, Alberta; Minneapolis; Toronto; and Chautauque, N.Y. The final appearance of the tour will be July 19 at Otis Air Force Base on Cape...
...farmers in the province of Saskatchewan alone will have received $448 million from all sources for their crop. Land values on the prairies are soaring out of sight, as U.S. farmers from Montana and North Dakota hurry across the border to get in on the bounty. One farmer in Alberta refused to deliver any of his winter crop until after the first of the year. His income for 1963 was already well over $100,000. "And that," he believes, "is enough for one year...
...Wild West, the Mounties (who now number 8,500) are actually Canada's G-men, T-men, Secret Servicemen, revenue, post office and counter-intelligence agents all rolled into one. McClellan himself never served in the frozen Yukon; he spent his years tracking down moonshiners in Alberta, battling the violent hunger marches of the Depression '30s and ferreting out Communist spies in the '40s. When Russian Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in 1945 ready to tell about the Red spy ring, McClellan was the man who took him into protective custody...
With so mucn party strength in Quebec, Caouette never could reconcile himself to the fact that the nominal leader of the party remained English-speaking Robert Thompson from English-speaking Alberta. Caouette broke from Thompson, set up his own "national party to protect French-Canadians in every province." But though the 5.5 million French-Canadians are increasingly militant in their demands for more attention, not too many are apt to follow the demagogic Caouette. In fact, Caouette failed to convince even his own Quebec M.P.s: nearly half of them announced they were sticking with Thompson...
...Conservatives retained their 15 seats in Alberta, while the Liberals picked up their only seat in this province from Social Credit. Contrary to the prediction of political pundits, Social Credit took only one seat in the province...