Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kinasewich, a former Canadian semipro star whose eligibility was argued up and down the Eastern College Athletic Conference two years ago, was one of two unanimous selections. Brown's sophomore defenseman Bob Gaudreau also received the maximum 50 points. A first-place vote counted ten points and a second-team vote five; no coach was allowed to vote for a player from his own team...
...decided against holding the customary public ceremony as Sir Richard Luyt, the colony's new British-appointed Governor, replaced Sir Ralph Grey, who is moving on to the Bahamas. To prevent riots, the swearing-in ceremony took place on a Georgetown wharf only a few feet from the Canadian ship that brought Sir Richard from Trinidad. Once again, the fuse was lit in British Guiana, and holding the match-as usual-was Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan...
...Wagon International, who in 1928, out of "a desire to contribute to human happiness," first set Welcome Wagon hostesses to dropping in on newcomers in town with baskets of gifts from local merchants, a system so beneficial to trade that Briggs extended the system to 2,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, collected fees from merchants (at $10 to $30 a basket) that in the last decade alone came to well over $100 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Dastardly!" cried Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker in Ottawa's House of Commons. He had just learned that a band of armed men had invaded a Quebec armory and made off with a truckload of Canadian army weapons. It was the third such raid in less than a month, and Diefenbaker asked what was being done to "protect our armed forces." Another Opposition speaker sarcastically demanded assurances that the RCAF's new Bomarc missiles would not be stolen as well. Embarrassed officials of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's government could only reply that security measures were being...
Despite threats and occasional bombs, the Canadian Confederation is certainly in no real or immediate danger. But Quebec separatism is no longer idle talk...