Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal, last Wednesday, the raids began. Squads of Mounties and provost officers (military policemen) hunting for Army deserters and draft dodgers swooped about the city in convoys. At dance halls and cabarets they blocked exits, herded all men together, examined their papers...
...Saturday, five sedans carrying a dozen Mounties and 22 canopied Army trucks, carrying no specially sworn Army "constables," roared into Drummondville, a French Canadian tex tile center (pop. 16,000) some 70 miles northeast of Montreal. Quickly the raiders fanned out, swept into crowded hotels and taverns. Word of what was happening spread through the city. Crowds began to gather...
...press was frustrated and angry. Columnists tried to sound knowing, merely sounded vague. Said the Montreal Gazette: it is time "to clear the air and to put an end to the uncertainty that is strangling the nation's effort at home...
Once it seemed that old Referee Misfortune was always putting him in the penalty box. As Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard made his way up from the kid rinks of Montreal to the pro Canadiens, he first broke a leg, then an arm, then a leg. Now the Canadiens' freak left-handed right wing, he has shed his bad luck but kept his knack for breaking things. This week he broke the National Hockey League's goal-scoring record...
...York City flight were these new routes for Trans-Canada Air Lines: Halifax to Boston, Toronto to Cleveland, Toronto to Chicago, Port Arthur to Duluth, Victoria to Seattle, Whitehorse to Fairbanks. The new U.S. commercial routes: New York City (or Boston) to Quebec, New York City to Ottawa (or Montreal), Washington to Ottawa (or Montreal), Seattle to Whitehorse...