Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal...
...millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
...Railway Express Agency receipt for his large sea bag dated October 28, from Jacksonville, a registration slip from a Philadelphia lodging house on October 30, and a job application to the Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole marked what he thought were the limits north and south. Thus the Montreal resident who reported him there on October 29 was clearly mistaken...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...
...Moulinette, who hadn't made a big arrest in 20 years, heard noises in the empty house next door. The police surrounded the house, yelled, "Come out!" Lama sheepishly came out, bummed a cigaret and said he couldn't have committed the murders because he was in Montreal that day. As Chief Hawkshaw clapped Lama in jail, the Chief sighed: "I'm too old for this sort of thing...