Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ottawa politicos must never forget the No. 1 rule of Dominion politics: whatever you do, don't make Quebec sore. In following this ironclad precept last week, the Federal Government winked at violations of the immigration laws and gave a nod to the violators...
...Georges Benoit Montel, 49, who helped to run the city of Annecy for the Vichy regime and stridently mouthed Vichy's pro-Nazi propaganda. He got into Canada two years ago posing as Dr. Lacroix, quickly got a job at Laval University. When Montel confessed his illegal entry, Dominion authorities (following almost invariable practice) ordered him deported...
...legal battery, the nationalists prepared to go to court this week to seek a writ of habeas corpus to halt the deportation. But the federal government, which has full power to kick out anyone it pleases, would have the last word. Only an order-in-council, passed by the Dominion cabinet, could save De Bernonville...
Until he got into the political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with...
...principal mine-operating subsidiary of Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd. ("Dosco"), which controls 90% of Nova Scotia's coal pro duction, besides the steel plant at Sydney, where iron ore from Newfoundland is reduced...