Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sacred Past. Once Montreal had been the doorway to all of North America. Out of the "sacred city," founded in 1642, went Marquette, Champlain, La Salle, Du Luth, Joliet and many another to explore the New World and baptize the heathen Indians...
...Montreal is still a sacred city, with 360 churches and 126 streets named after saints. But it is also a worldly metropolis (pop. 1,138,835). This week, Montreal's seams were splitting with the greatest crop of tourists ever. Out of the 23,000,000 pouring into Canada from the U.S. this year, some 9,000,000 would pass through the gateway of Montreal into French Canada. All told, they would spend about...
...Montreal they found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
...might even find their way to La Tour Eiffel, a blue-painted, mirrored and muraled restaurant of Montreal's sophisticates. It was officially opened only a few weeks ago by what many Montrealers consider their best attraction, and their most entertaining floor show: Mayor Camillien Houde (rhymes with comedian good...
...Again, Out Again. He fought with his party, but in 1928 was elected Mayor of Montreal anyway-chiefly because his friends outdid the opposition in voting the names of non-voting oldsters and invalids...