Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent account of the mayoralty election in Montreal, TIME'S New York staff confused Léon Trépanier with Léonard Tre-panier...
...onard Trépanier who was supported actively by Madame Houde, wife of Montreal's ex-Mayor, interned because of his anti-war activities. Instead of being a serious factor in the election, he received so few votes that he lost his election deposit...
...onard Trépanier who ran second in the race and not Leon there might have been cause for worry, but as it stands the election showed, if anything, that the great body of French Canadians are definitely not in sympathy with the anti-war sentiments of Montreal's ex-Mayor...
...another false information. I wish to state that I was nobody's "political stalking horse." I had around me, during that campaign, supporters from the two political parties of the Province of Quebec, as I had working against me certain people from the same parties. The population of Montreal knows that, and well-informed people can vouch that Mr. Maurice Duplessis did not, at any time during the campaign, support my candidature...
...Mayor of Montreal...