Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JACKSON Montreal...
...career was law, his sports were bridge, golf, curling and fishing. Born in 1899 (at Lennoxville, Quebec), he served overseas in World War I, returned to finish his law studies. By 1940 he had a pretty wife, three children, a medium-sized income in a medium-sized Montreal law firm, and an idea that he might like to be a judge. As a steppingstone, he decided to contest St. Antoine-Westmount, where no Liberal was supposed to have a chance. To his own surprise, he was elected...
...clear to the Maritimes. In staid Ottawa, 500 Lisgar Collegiate Institute students paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...
...morning last week two ships weighed anchor at Three Rivers, where they had been fogbound, and raced up the St. Lawrence River. A few hours later, flying Canadian Pacific's red & white checkered flag, the black-hulled, 10,000-ton cargo liner S.S. Beaverburn steamed into Montreal harbor and tied up at Shed 8. Her skipper, John Bissett Smith, had brought in the first ocean-going ship of the season, and thus officially opened Montreal harbor for 1947 business. For some 125 years, the master of the spring's first overseas ship has been given a gold-headed...
...many Montrealers are likely to forget that they too are a maritime people no less than those whose homes gird the salt seas," said the Montreal Gazette last week. A thousand miles from the sea, Montreal is at the end of Canada's ocean navigation, and at the portal of 1,200 miles of inland waters. From December to April the port is ice-locked. Yet it handles a third of Canada's commerce, exports more grain than any other port on the North American continent. It is closer to Liverpool than any U.S. seaport, is the nearest...