Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government at Ottawa was still brightly optimistic about it all. Cried big, bluff Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell: "There's nothing to get hysterical about. In six months our problem may be to fight a boom." The understandably worried workers certainly hoped...
When General Charles de Gaulle was in Ottawa last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asked a favor: could he borrow Jacques Greber, inspector-general of city planning for France, and a world authority on garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...
...What Ottawa now has of gracious streets and spacious vistas is largely the work of Jacques Greber. Before the war he drew up a plan for beautifying the city, beginning with a landscaped plaza in the center of the business district and radiating out from there. Now he would really start radiating...
Some 900 square miles of rolling hills, woods, rivers, canals, the cities of Ottawa and Hull will be converted into a "National Capital District," most of it across the Ottawa River in Quebec province. The whole district will be a memorial to Canada's World War II dead...
...bigger one was built, still later a third. Today the $6,000,000 Oratory of Saint Joseph is a great, concrete-domed structure topped with a neon-lighted cross that towers over Canada's "City of Churches." Ecclesiastical tribunals are already at work in Montreal, Providence, R.I., Ottawa, and St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, checking evidence and proceeding with the first steps that may lead to Brother Andre's canonization...