Word: gatineau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker and Eisenhower, who had met briefly twice before, seemed to hit it off immediately. In Diefenbaker's office, before and after formal appearances, and once in an unscheduled drive through the scenic Gatineau Hills of Quebec, the two leaders swapped quips and serious words, argued viewpoints, came to understandings if not always agreements...
...Liberal Party rally in Ontario, Canada's External Affairs Secretary Lester Pearson drew a broad distinction between living standards on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. "I have a little threeroom summer cottage in [Quebec's] Gatineau hills," said he. "When I go there, I like to cook my own meals. When I was invited to Mr. Khrushchev's summer home in the Crimea last fall, it turned out to be a palace with 150 rooms. But then, he's a Communist Party leader. I'm not even a capitalist...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...
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...
...Just Joe. In this setting dwell some of the most primitive white people in North America, the Gatineau mountaineers. They scratch out a meager living by farming and lumbering. Faith healers, seers and hermits abound among them. Families sometimes grow so big that parents run out of names. The woods are populated with brothers named Black Luke and Red Luke, Little Joe, Big Joe and Just...