Word: gatineau
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...decades, the French-speaking majority in Quebec has sought official recognition as a "distinct society" within the overwhelmingly English- speaking nation. Three years ago, at a meeting with the ten provincial premiers at Meech Lake in the Gatineau hills of Quebec, Mulroney devised a set of amendments that would finally satisfy the demands of the Quebecois and bring them to sign the national constitution "with honor and enthusiasm." But by last week the Meech Lake accord had turned a symbol of renewed division and intolerance between English- and French-speaking Canadians...
...cook and his wife, a diplomat who has served in the Foreign Ministry, Huang and his staff of 14 will work from the top floor of Ottawa's posh Juliana Apartments. From there, he will have a fine view of the Canadian Parliament, the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills. But the view that is likely to interest him most will be the one he gets-from the press, TV and assorted visitors...
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...