Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
...modest scientist, he never signs his first name even to personal correspondence. Correspondents recall that given name as being "Felix." He was born in Montreal in 1873 ; educated in France. From 1901 to 1905 he was government bacteriologist in Guatemala. At present he is at Alexandria, Egypt, director of the bacteriological service of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Council. †A millicron is one one-millionth of a millimeter, or one one-thousandth of a micron, or one twenty-fifth of a billionth of an inch. *This is the basis of the argument for Ipana tooth paste as advertised...
...Montreal, Canada...
...only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Beirut, Singapore, Bankok, Montreal, Peking. 6) Nursing-help to training schools in U. S., China, Brazil, France, Jugoslavia and Poland. 7) Biology-aid to Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa State. 8) Fellowships- to 842 men and women from 44 different countries. 9) League of Nations-traveling expenses of 128 health officers from 58 nations studying...
McGill University (Montreal...