Word: ont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, near London, Ont. last New Year's Eve, 14-year-old Priscilla Wright sang into her father's tape recorder. Father Don Wright had been too busy leading his own radio chorus to listen to her before, but when he heard the playback, he recognized the sound of a good pop voice. A record company agreed, and so he looked around for the right song for Priscilla to record profesionally. Six weeks and 120 songs later, the pretty little girl with bands on her teeth recorded a tune called The Man in a Raincoat for Sparton...
...Tory victory was largely a personal triumph for Premier Leslie Frost, 59. A genial small-town lawyer from Lindsay, Ont. (pop. 9,603). Frost took over the premiership in 1949 and steadily built up the Tory vote by running a smooth, prosperous administration. One of his first moves was to settle a long taxation feud between the Ontario and federal governments. Frost tried no spectacular political experiments, but he kept taxes low, increased welfare grants, ran his cabinet so efficiently that hardly a hint of discord ever was heard outside the caucus room...
...miles of telephone line. It will hop cross-country from Broadway to the shores of San Diego and the ski slopes of Mount Hood, zoom east for a water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with nothing sharper than...
Gathering at their home in Corbeil, Ont., Student Nurses Cecile and Yvonne, Piano Student Annette and Homebody Marie Dionne, survivors of the famed quintuplets (Emilie died during an epileptic seizure last August), celebrated their 21st birthday at a quiet family party. Without ceremony, they signed papers to carve up their trust fund of nearly $1 million. The shares: some $197,000 apiece, plus amounts of about $14,000 (from Emilie's portion) to each of them and to the other ten members of the family...
...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...