Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...immediate purpose being to utilize the flow between the lakes for hydroelectric power. Projected cost of the power installations alone: $65,000,000. Projected horsepower on completion: 2,000,000. Initial developments provided for 500,000 h.p., contracts for the greater part of which have long been signed by Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co. and the Ontario Hydro Commission...
...tyro at power and waterway questions is Senator McDougald, onetime medical student who made a fortune in gold and married rich Miss Mary Hannan. He was chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board from 1922 until late in 1930. His experience in such matters caused his appointment to the Canadian National Committee, an advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good...
...while Chairman of the Montreal Harbor Board, Senator McDougald had conferred privately with Robert Alexander Cecil Henry, later Deputy Minister of Railways & Canals, regarding a power development in Beauharnois County. Privately he offered Mr. Henry $10,000 for the formation of a power company. In 1924 Mr. Henry incorporated Sterling Industrial Corp. In that year, about two months after Mr. McDougald was appointed to the St. Lawrence Advisory Committee, the Sterling Company applied for power rights between Lakes St. Louis and St. Francis. After Mr. McDougald became Senator, the Beauharnois Power Co., supposedly because of this prior claim ("nuisance value...
...French Government sent for the celebration was an appropriate choice. Ys is a fabled lost city off the coast of Brittany, where romantic sailors sometimes hear church-bells ringing under the water. Canada is the lost French colony, whose fate was decided when the French army surrendered at Montreal...