Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ottawa the Dominion House of Commons resoundingly cheered Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who has pledged on behalf of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, a lifelong Liberal, that the "entire resources" of the Dominion Government, including the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be used to get any persons who foment a sit-down in Canada...
During the wintry years of its northern Depression, Canada's financial centre of gravity shifted westward from the first city of the Dominion to the second, from staid old Montreal to booming Toronto. In mental atmosphere the two cities are different as Boston and Chicago. From the golden days of the fur trade to the building of the railroads, from the peopling of the prairies to the rise of lumber and newsprint, the wealth of Canada tended to flow through Montreal. Some of that wealth always came to rest in the snug little mansions at the foot of Mount...
Cash in it did. In the five years through 1936 the value of Canada's mineral output soared from $191,000,000 to a new high of $360,000,000, nearly one-third in gold alone. The total of dividend payments by Dominion mines more than tripled. Mining now ranks ahead of lumber and newsprint as the most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York...
...Toronto Stock Exchange will re-open for business in a brand-new building, the most up-to-date trading floor in the world. Toronto likes to think of this new building as symbolizing not only the new importance of its mining mart but the coming of age of the Dominion's most boisterous industry. To mark this notable event with appropriate fanfare, President Harry Broughton Housser scheduled not one but two formal openings...
Born 52 years ago in Winnipeg, Broker Housser made a Dominion name as a hockey star, first at Toronto's swank St. Andrew's College, later at the University of Toronto and then on Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played...