Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. Consulate in Toronto announced that expatriated Americans may regain their lost citizenship simply by applying to any U.S. diplomatic officer in Canada before next Aug. 7. For the repatriation process, Ottawa's Le Droit coined the word-of-the-week: "reyankification...
...Canadians rejected him because of a childhood injury to his left eye), then taught modern history at Toronto for six years before joining the Department of External Affairs (U.S. equivalent: State Department) in 1927. He had served in Washington, Geneva and London before becoming Associate Under Secretary in Ottawa...
From Washington popular Mike Pearson went back to Ottawa to take Norm Robertson's place. In calling him home, Prime Minister King was giving his new and relatively inexperienced External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent a thoroughly experienced, adept right hand. He was also, significantly, bringing within arm's reach a man whose name has been mentioned as Mr. King's political crown prince...
...jampacked Ottawa last week the disbanding Canadian Women's Army Corps moved out of Kildare Barracks, left the two roomy brick houses invitingly vacant. This was just what 150 war vets, who had formed the Veterans' Housing League, had been waiting for. They had failed in all the usual approaches to the Government to find adequate housing. The day after the CWACs cleared out, V.H.L. Leader Franklyn Edward Hanratty, a pint-sized pepper pot who flew 48 R.C.A.F. missions, handed an ultimatum to Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis to do something about housing or else. The Mayor...
Prime Minister King had been away from home six weeks and the home folks noticed it. Toronto's Saturday Night doubted whether anything he was doing in Paris was as important "as the contribution [he] can make to . . . Canada by returning [home]." Ottawa's Journal agreed: Mr. King at Paris "is seeing Mr. Bevin and Italy's Prime Minister Mr. de Gasperi. We wonder if Mr. King would not be serving Canada more usefully by . . . seeing Mr. Hilton of the Steel Company of Canada and Mr. Millard of the Steel Workers Union...