Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WITH a passion few U.S. citizens comprehend, monarchical Canada scorns the republicanism of its neighbors to the south. "Our ideal, by right of inheritance, is the ideal of the King-in-Parliament," wrote Montreal Economist John Farthing, bluntly and articulately, in his book Freedom Wears a Crown. "It requires for its fulfillment the acceptance of initial loyalty to a sovereign as opposed to allegiance simply to a system of law. Anyone who does not find the first preferable to the second is out of place in Canada. He should be an American citizen, not a British subject." For the next...
Preparing for family summer travel, Britain's royal family sets a royal standard. Last week, on the eve of the farthest-ranging tour of Canada (44 days, 100 cities and towns, 15,000 miles) ever undertaken by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip read plentifully about the personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards...
...immediate purpose of the Queen's visit is to inaugurate, with President Eisenhower in Montreal next week, the St. Lawrence Seaway.* Beyond that, the tour arrangers' purpose was to let Elizabeth see "something of the life of the average Canadian," and to let Canada see the Queen whose full Canadian title is "Elizabeth the Second, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." When the Queen's silver Cornet touches down at Newfoundland's St. John's Airport...
...ease shipping slow-ups, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Administration last week dismayed millions of U.S. and Canadian small boat owners by barring pleasure craft less than 20 ft. from the Canadian locks, i.e., every lock from Montreal to Lake Erie except two U.S. locks near Massena...
...rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe and Canada percapita consumption of aluminum is only 6.2 Ibs. a year v. 21 Ibs. in the U.S. Says Reynolds' President R. S. Reynolds Jr.: "International markets will be the next scene of dramatic aluminum growth...