Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson in the 1920s threatened to punch the Queen's grandfather, George V, "in the snoot." At the trip's high point this week, President Eisenhower joins the Queen aboard Britannia to dedicate the 182-mile St. Lawrence Seaway, which links the U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes with the world's deep water...
Monarch of Canada. In Washington, when Press Secretary James Hagerty recently told reporters that arrangements for the St. Lawrence Seaway dedication were being handled by the Canadian, British and U.S. governments, Canadians indignantly asked what the devil the British government had to do with it. Elizabeth is visiting their shores as Queen of Canada, and nothing else. For most of them the event is joyful and important. Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded...
...worker grumbled, "If I went to Europe, she wouldn't pay attention to me, so I'm not going out of my way to see her." Canada's prettiest TV star, blonde Joyce Davidson, appearing on television in New York last week, said that "like most Canadians, I'm indifferent to the visit of the Queen." Furious phone calls jammed the switchboards of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Joyce's employer. Returning home, Joyce announced that she was taking an indefinite leave of absence from her job because of the "ferocity" of the criticism...
...American Revolution, an estimated 40,000 Loyalist refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government," with the Canadian colonies handling their own internal affairs through the adoption of the British Cabinet system...
...term British Commonwealth* had been loosely in use for decades, and Britain's Arthur James Balfour, World War I Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...