Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ross ("Sandy") Somerville, quiet-spoken golfer from London, Ont.: the Canadian Amateur Golf Championship; beating ponderous Arthur ("Ducky") Yates of Rochester, N. Y. 3 & 2 in the final at Montreal...
...half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President Webb made a speech about oldtime Merchant Montgomery Ward's foresight in planting his plant beside the water...
...Richard, rushing from St. John's to Montreal to New York and back, trying to borrow money, insisted that the Colony was not bankrupt, that Newfoundland's financial difficulties were a political plot. Asked pointblank about the Labrador rumor, he said...
Last week Newfoundland's money troubles were suddenly solved. No province in distress ever had a stranger saviour. Miss Jeannette Lewis, a stocky lady with a large capable jaw and large capable feet, drove up to Montreal's swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel, registered, and let it be known that "myself and my associate" were ready to lend Newfoundland not only the $8,000,000 it asked for, but $109,000,000. Of this amount $10,000,000 was immediately available in cash...
...since the age of 15 when she raised money to build the Children's Hospital in Hamilton. Twenty years ago, says her legend, she bearded the directors of the Canadian Northern Railway (forerunner of the present state-owned Canadian National) and persuaded them to dig a tunnel under Montreal's Mount Royal, then persuaded Hamilton realtors to develop the area made available by the new line...