Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good-will visit with top Soviet officials, found time for one item of business: an agreement to start preliminary talks for a new Canadian-Soviet trade treaty. The Moscow press, hailing the latest evidence of the spirit of Geneva at work, announced that Soviet negotiators would leave soon for Ottawa...
...Ottawa economists attributed the dollar's drop in part to the fact that foreign investors, mainly in the U.S., have been selling Canadian securities to seek higher returns elsewhere. New investment from the U.S. and abroad-the big prop under the Canadian dollar in recent years-also tapered off, and Canada's adverse balance of trade was having its downward effect. The Bank of Canada last week announced an increase in its interest rate on loans to banks, from 2% to 2¼%. The change, mildly deflationary in its effect, may tend to boost the Canadian dollar again...
...details of military operations. One of the few who far surpassed these minimum military requirements was Thomas Davies, a British artillery officer whose American and Canadian watercolors were brought to light in Britain only two years ago On display this week at Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa, they have already established Davies as "the father of Canadian landscape painting...
Included in the Ottawa collection are two of Davies' earliest sketches done in 1758, one depicting the burning of Grymross, Nova Scotia, by British troops and another a detailed drawing of the new British fortifications with key points carefully labeled: "A. Fort Frederick. B. Huts built by the Rangers. C. Passage up the River. Davies' later views of Montreal, Quebec and Halifax are valued as the first to be recorded in Canadian history...
...Howe flash the warning? Howe himself did not say, and tight-lipped U.S. Atomic Energy Commission officials in Washington would add nothing. But William Bennett, head of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., hinted that Ottawa had received word from Washington putting a definite ceiling on the amount of Canadian uranium the U.S. will contract...