Word: montreal
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...five days before the fishermen found them, the refugees said, the ship's crew told them that they had paid only to be transported "near" Canada rather than all the way. They were thereupon loaded into the scantily provisioned lifeboats and told that they were six miles from Montreal, a city that is almost 1,000 miles west of St. John...
Those tales may have some foundation. An estimated 8,000 Tamils have already settled in communities in Montreal and Toronto. While Canadian officials are clearly unhappy about the way the "boat people" entered their country, they indicated last week that the new arrivals will not be turned away. The Tamils have been issued work permits and granted permission to remain for at least a year. Immigration officers say they will not deport the castaways to Sri Lanka so long as civil strife continues. Says Canadian Immigration Consultant Dennison Moore: "It appears that under any circumstance, they're here to stay...
Witold Rybczynski, an engaging professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, got immersed in such questions because he found that when he designed homes in the approved modern style, they often made his , clients feel uncomfortable. When he designed his own house in the same way, he felt like one of his clients: "I found myself turning again and again to memories of older houses, and older rooms, and trying to understand what had made them feel so right, so comfortable...
There is, in fact, something for everybody at Expo, which is already being compared with the last Canadian fair, Montreal's popular Expo 67. Some 54 countries, nine Canadian provinces and territories, three American states (Washington, Oregon and California) and a dozen or more major companies have set up pavilions that emphasize the theme of the fair: transportation and communication...
...Stanley Cup match-up was the first real professional game I'd ever watched end-to-end (If you don't count occasional interruptions for the Miss America pageant) and maybe the most interesting thing I saw the whole game was a player from Calgary and Montreal "mixing...