Word: ont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto, Ont...
Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...
...Callander, Ont. last week Mr. & Mrs. Oliva Dionne and all their twelve children, including the quintuplets, received the blessing of Pope Pius XI, brought from Vatican City by onetime President Frank Blied of the Catholic Central Verein. Said Mr. Blied: "By the grace of God, this is a blessing to the entire community. This is a different theory than birth control. This is the emancipation of humanity...
...Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., where he went to receive an honorary D.C.L. before dedicating a new international bridge across the St. Lawrence River and its Thousand Islands (see p. 34), Franklin Roosevelt declared...
...Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...