Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toronto's Globe & Mail buried the story on an inside page and looked the other way. The rest of Canada, tired of Toronto's holier-than-thou attitude, howled with delight. The Ottawa Citizen whooped to press with an eight-column, Page One chortler: TORONTO THE GOOD 'MOST WIDE OPEN CITY.' The Ottawa Journal clucked like a mother hen: "Toronto is [just] growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy...
...mission: to photograph the faces of the great men of his time. That became his ambition after he came to Canada from Turkish Armenia at 15 and went to work in his uncle's photographic studio in Sherbrooke, Que. Eventually Yousuf Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa and before long his dramatic, three-dimensional portraits had made him Ottawa's top photographer. Then, on Dec. 30, 1941, Winston Churchill came to town...
...Ottawa last week, Minister of External Affairs Louis St. Laurent brusquely rejected the request. Snapped the Minister: "The Canadian Government does not regard the invitation in its present form as affording Canada an opportunity for participating in the peace settlement in the way which would be appropriate for a country which contributed substantially to the war against Germany...
...Making of a Man. Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve was one of a shoemaker's family of six. Born in Montreal, he was ordained a priest at 23. For the next 23 years he taught philosophy, morals, liturgy and canon law at the University of Ottawa. Then in 1930 he was named Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. A year and a half later he was made Archbishop of Quebec; hardly more than a year after that, a Cardinal. Never in Canadian ecclesiastical history had anyone risen from priest to Cardinal so fast...
Saving in Ottawa. Administrative overlapping is out. Minister Claxton will have only one deputy (instead of one from each service). There will eventually be a single staff to handle everything for all the services from procurement to public relations. There will be one staff college for all three services...