Word: frontenac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Quebec Conference (August, 1943), rugged Canadian Sergeant Major Emile Couture's job was to keep conferees supplied with stationery. It was also his job to pick up the unused paper when the Conference was over. One morning in the Chateau Frontenac he found a piece of paper on which were boldly written the alternative dates for Dday, the number of troops and ships to be used, data on air cover...
Braid and Brains. For their second Quebec conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were each accompanied by his country's general staff. Their top diplomatic aides were believed en route. And the number of lesser lights and technical experts ran into the hundreds, enough to fill the Chateau Frontenac's 800 rooms. No less than 300 WACs were detailed for clerical work. Both Winston
...Quebec change the pattern? There were a few hopeful signs, mostly on the military side. Great strategic decisions were obviously made. The baronial, turreted pile of the Chateau Frontenac, famed old Quebec hotel where conference advisers lived, was so full of gold braid that the eyes of bellhops and chambermaids were dazzled. Rumor said that colonels were sleeping two to a room...
After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
...joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double - in face, figure, mannerisms and dress - for England's Admiral Beatty, World War I naval hero...