Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa, the Dominion government issued figures on immigration to Canada in the first half of 1948. Six-month total: 57,275. Main sources: British Isles (23,-468), Europe's D.P. camps (18,886), The Netherlands...
Stocky Eugene Gauthier, 45, and his wife Winnifred worked late Friday evening loading their new Mercury one-ton truck. At 5:30 next morning, they were off to Ottawa's By Ward Market. In a jiffy the Gauthiers were setting up shop (they pay $35 a year for a stall, plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby...
...scene was older than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
Carrots & Corn. Market prices are about the same as in Ottawa's retail stores, but sometimes there are bargains, and for most buyers there is fascination in the sprawling confusion of the stalls. Gene Gauthier knew what he wanted for his vegetables before he got to market last week: 35? for a dozen ears of corn, a cent apiece for cucumbers, 25? for an 11-quart basket of tomatoes, 10? for a 5-lb. bag of carrots. Some farmers sprinkle their vegetables with water to make them look fresher, but Gene feels that makes them soggy and pulpy...
Peruvian Ambassador Alfredo Benavides had an idea, and to sell it he invited the heads of the diplomatic missions in Ottawa to come around for a drink. The idea: a gift to mark the retirement of U.S. Ambassador Ray Atherton (TIME, Aug. 23), dean of Ottawa's diplomatic corps. Ambassador Benavides had no trouble persuading 32 of his colleagues. A silver cigar box, they decided, would be just the thing, and it should be engraved with the signatures of the mission heads...