Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winnipeg last week, William John Eccles, a University of Manitoba history lecturer, said flatly that history has been giving Frontenac far more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...
...striking examples of how its members have prospered. A Czech family has built a lumber business employing 4,000. Two Britons opened a garage in Ottawa and are grossing more than $100,000 a year. The Dutch are especially proud of one family that emigrated to a Manitoba farm in 1948. Two years later, they had saved enough to buy and move into the former home of Manitoba's lieutenant governor...
...week's work. Take Canada, for example. The five newsstand reps in the Dominion of Canada are Michael Callahan, responsible for all of Canada; Larry Goulet and his assistant Dick Genin, who work from Ontario east through Newfoundland; and Bill Pearson, with his assistant Dick Schouten, responsible for Manitoba west through British Columbia...
...first mother, much amused, did nothing about it. But other parents, learning about goldfish for the first time, began withdrawing their children from the competition. Richard Glover, a University of Manitoba history professor, took his eleven-year-old goldfish son out of the choir line-up for this spring's festival. Said Glover: "His reaction was that his school just wanted him to cheat the referee. I think he was right...
...University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, for example, TIME'S subscription agent is a law student by the name of Paul Halprin, better known on the campus as Mr. Magazine. Says he: "The students come here from all over the world and almost every country in the British Commonwealth. Naturally they are very news-conscious, and I find that over a cup of coffee at the 'Café' is the best time to put in a plug for the magazine. One factor that I run into selling TIME is the weather. In winter the thermometer stays below zero...