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...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...
Then Canadians heard ominous news. Ontario's Attorney General Leslie Blackwell sent 250 Ontario provincial police from Toronto to reinforce Windsor's cops. He followed it up by asking Ottawa for Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen. He got 200. Besides, 300 Regular Army troops from Chatham were held outside Windsor in readiness. Then Blackwell proclaimed: "A state of emergency exists in Windsor...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...
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Official Business. In Ottawa, the Government wondered aloud why taxpayers objected to the destruction of surplus stock, revealed that a supply of saddles and harness had been periodically polished ever since the Boer...