Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weinberger of Ottawa once shielded himself with a sheet of nylon and let a Canadian soldier jab at him with a bayonet. Anyone would have thought him mad. But the bayonet scarcely dented the fabric...
From the beginning of his planned visit, De Gaulle made it clear that he was coming to see Quebec, more than the nation celebrating its centennial year. Rather than travel first to the federal capital of Ottawa, De Gaulle landed at the French possession of St. Pierre, 15 miles off Newfoundland, and sailed by cruiser up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City-refusing to fly the Canadian flag as protocol dictates...
English Canadians were boiling. Pearson's government has only recently begun to ease the strains between English and French Canada and work out a new, delicate balance by giving the French Canadians a greater voice in Ottawa and in their own provincial affairs. After a four-hour Cabinet meeting, Pearson issued a statement acidly reminding De Gaulle that Canadians are not in need of liberation since they are free (at least as free as the French, he might have added). "Certain statements by the President," the Pearson statement continued, "tend to encourage the small minority of our population whose...
Grandly Aloof. Many Canadians demanded stronger words, but the language was tough enough. Through his aides, De Gaulle announced that the Canadian statement was itself "unacceptable," canceled his trip to Ottawa and flew back to Paris...
...float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...