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Most important of the four was Dr. 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...
...Overpayment. Two million dollars was no overpayment for the university's contribution to Quebec. Ever since Bishop de Laval started his seminary to train French and Indian priests, the history of the school and of French Canada have been interwoven. Laval was the center of learning in New France. After the British conquest, it continued to educate French-speaking leaders. Money from Bishop de Laval's lands (granted to him by Louis XIV) kept the school going. Laval turned out scholars who kept alive the French culture in the English-governed land...
...20th Century, Laval's faculty discovered belatedly that all this was not enough; French Canada needed more. New mines (copper, gold, iron and aluminum) had been established in Quebec's north; vast power developments were being built to serve them. The giant pulp & paper industry depended on scientific forestry. The sons of the habitants wanted to know about engineering and business...
...Room. Younger clerics on Laval's faculty were all for meeting the need. But older heads stood against them: there was no room for business and industry in the place which Bishop de Laval himself had ordained as "a perpetual school of virtue." Not until 1937 did the opposition yield enough to approve a faculty of science. Not until February, 1947, did Laval have a school of commerce...
...faculties taxed Laval's space. Enrollment (1,294 in 1936) jumped last year to more than 3,000 full-time students. But there was no room for expansion in the tight little blocks below Quebec's Citadel. Quebec's Archbishop Maurice Roy, World War II army chaplain, agreed that Laval would have to be remade. Said he: "The university . . . must addpt itself to the continual progress of science and technology...