Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT-As a last minute appeal to Liberal prejudices, Quebec gave 25 of her 65 seats to Conservative Bennett...
...usual the election was lively: one death (Citizen Albert Dauphinais, 56, of Joliette, killed in an election argument with Citizen Edmund Hottain, 33), plus 20 arrests in Montreal, plus a little wire-cutting by Conservative enthusiasts who thus interrupted Liberal broadcasts...
...Montreal a sudden, violent electric storm halted telegraph and telephone service election night and drenched bulletin board watchers. As they rushed for home they knew that Quebec, normally Liberal, had given Conservatives at least 16 seats, that Conservatives had ten and Liberals one of New Brunswick's eleven seats, that Prince Edward Island voted three Conservatives and one Liberal into office. It appeared certain that Mr. Bennett's Conservatives had given him a majority of Parliament's 245 seats. Mr. King had perhaps 100. The minor parties had negligible counts. The Liberal-Progressives seemingly had broken...
From Fletcher's Field, Montreal, over a 500-mi. irregular course of roads through Victoriaville. Quebec, Ste. Anne de la Perade, Joliette, and back to Montreal's baseball stadium runners plodded last week in a relay race. Eighteen thousand spectators cheered the winners. Swathed in wraps, Arthur Newton of Rhodesia, South Africa, and Peter Gavuzzi of Southampton, England, hurried away to get some rest. Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time...
Canadian Airways planes fly from Montreal to Toronto. Western Canada Airways operates from Calgary east to Winnipeg. Between Winnipeg and Cochrane, Ont. is a vast expanse favorable for flying, which might be made an extensive air link in an air-rail system, cutting nearly two days from the trans-Canada trip...