Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...
...Made Niagara. Three years, the labor of 10,000 men and the greatest force of construction machinery ever assembled in peacetime went into the building of Kitimat. The work was spread over an area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through...
King was not quite accurate. The hills and valleys flanking Quebec's swift Gatineau River teem with habitations and inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
...after he bought his young wife a paintbox for Christmas. "She never got it," he says. "I started in painting myself and found I couldn't stop." Sather went to art school and learned all he could, then embarked for Canada with his family. His reasons: "A Canadian consul in Norway told me this was a wonderful country. Besides, I hadn't been here before. If you walk on the same street too many times, you don't see anything...
Penalty Tour. In Toronto, Canadian Air Force Veteran William Bagler was given 21 days in jail after he took out his spite against his wife by dressing her in pajamas and an R.C.A.F. raincoat, putting a knapsack full of bricks on her back, making her march a pack drill in the basement of their home...