Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British House of Commons, just before it filled up one day in 1867 for a lively debate on a bill to tax dog owners, a bare quorum bothered to vote on the legislation that created a confederation out of three Canadian colonies. Canadians made no special fuss over the event. Now they are making up for their initial apathy. All year long they have been celebrating their centennial...
...last week's royal visit from Elizabeth of England, who is also, by virtue of the country's Commonwealth status, Queen of Canada. Accompanied by Prince Philip, Elizabeth was given a thunderous reception in the English-speaking capital of Ottawa. The Queen reciprocated by telling the Canadian Parliament that the growing strength of its union "has given increasing power and authority to Canada's voice in world affairs...
...centennial has also capped a Canadian culture boom; new museums, libraries and planetariums are going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue missions were costing Canada too much time and money. Now that the planes and pilots are better, the Canadians have relaxed their regulations, but they still insist that...
...recent move that caught Wall Street by surprise, Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne, Ind. firm that makes wire, cable, switches and auto parts in 54 U.S. and Canadian plants. The railroad seems to be getting a bargain. Essex itself last week announced that it was acquiring Stevens Manufacturing Co. and Boyne Products, Inc., both of them small manufacturers of control devices...