Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal last week, grey-haired Michael Gordon Fulker, 41, sat at a three-minute hearing in the Court of King's Bench, heard the Crown say it had no evidence to offer, listened attentively as Justice Wilfrid Lazure solemnly added: "You have suffered enough...
...long, curving road that hugs the fertile banks of the St. Lawrence all the way from Montreal to Quebec, the dollhouse shacks of tourist camps were boarded tight, and French Canadian schoolchildren walked close together against the wind. Everywhere, weeks ahead of the U.S., the birches, beeches and maples passed from red and yellow into sere brown...
This week, as Ottawa waited for permission from Douglas MacArthur to ship the 10,000-plus to Japan, complications were coming fast. In the Tashme (B.C.) repatriation camp, 70% of the Japs had changed their minds; now they want to stay in Canada. In Montreal, other prospective repats asked to withdraw their requests to leave; Japan no longer seemed a good place to live...
...Government's meat-rationing troubles grew & grew. In Victoria, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Saint John, many another Canadian city and town, butchers topped off days of beefing about rationing by going on strike. In Montreal, some butchers closed their shops, then marched in a body to shops that stayed open, forced them to close too. Meat trucks reportedly were overturned. In Alberta, some 4,000 coal miners said they would walk off their jobs unless they got double meat rations...
...Gabriel Tremblays were not alone in their troubles. Some 30,000 other war workers had been laid off in Montreal alone. Across the Dominion, thousands more were looking for new jobs. Some took the situation stoically; many protested...