Word: gatineau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removed to make room for a park. The capital area's 900 square miles of farm and wood lands, lakes, rivers and city blocks would be molded into one panorama, to be viewed from a 140-ft. World War II memorial tower atop one of the nearby Gatineau hills...
...schedule ground on. Sunday afternoon King dropped by and drove his guest to the Gatineau Hills for a windy walk. Monday morning Clem Attlee sat by a coal fire at Earnscliffe and was interviewed by reporters. He talked only in generalities, about foreign trade chiefly. Then, as visiting dignitaries always do, he stepped out to Ottawa's Confederation Square, laid a wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial...
...pledge not to conscript manpower for service overseas? The Canadian electorate voted Yes by a more than 2-to-1 vote-and the Cabinet thereupon split over whether to enforce conscription immediately. For the second consecutive weekend Mr. King sought refuge in his summer house in the gentle Gatineau hills. Past master of delay and compromise, he emerged this week with a characteristic proposal...