Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northwest passes through Hudson Bay. European ships have slipped in and out of Hudson Bay since the 17th Century. For the past 50 years there has been agitation for a railway and port on the Bay to take out wheat without sending it overland 1,000 miles farther to Montreal. When Canadians began to work seriously on the problem it was discovered that there were only two possible ports on the western side of Hudson Bay: Port Nelson, at the mouth of the tidal Nelson River, and Fort Churchill, at the emptying of Churchill River into an indentation known...
Sugar for Diabetics. U. S. chemistry's greatest individual benefactor, Francis Patrick Garvan, has a progressively severe case of diabetes. Insulin is maintaining him in fragile health. Last week from Buffalo he received news which may help him and other diabetics. Dr. Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of the Montreal General Hospital has traced the damages of diabetes to an enzyme in the blood. An enzyme is a digester. Dr. Rabinowitch's enzyme apparently destroys the insulin which the patient's pancreas manufactures itself or which the patient takes as medicine. Infections, like colds, stimulate the increase of this insulin-destroying enzyme...
...person who could have said whether U. S. pressure was brought to bear or not was fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Last week he disappeared completely. He was not in Quebec, where he was supposed to be, nor was he in Ottawa or Montreal. News-hounds could not flush his grey brush in New York or Washington...
Their standard-bearer was that political skyrocket, stocky, peppery Major Camillien Houde of Montreal. There is nothing conservative about Mr. Houde except his party. He first appeared in politics less than ten years ago when he unexpectedly won a seat in the Legislature from the stanch Liberal division of Sainte-Marie, Montreal. Since then he has shot from post to post, winning not only the mayoralty of Montreal but the leadership of the Conservative Party in the province. In his drive for the Premiership he has stumped Quebec all summer hurling accusations of gross extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming...
Born. To the ninth Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada; a son (he has been married since 1912, has two other children); in Montreal. The child is the first to be born to a Governor-General of Canada since the present Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava gave birth to a son in 1875. From George V came a request that he might be the boy's godfather...