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...Ottawa and Washington it was an nounced that Canada had made great contributions, in both facilities and brain power, to the development of the awesome atomic bomb. Half of the scientists working at the National Research Council's big laboratories in Montreal were Canadians. Near Petawawa, Ont., 120 miles north and west of Ottawa, a 10,000-acre tract had been expropriated, and for more than a year 1,300 men had been working behind barbed wire and under armed guard, clearing land and building an atomic bomb "pilot plant." As for the Government's Eldorado seizure...
...Empire's youngest fighting field marshal was appointed Governor General of Canada last week. From London and Ottawa came simultaneous announcements of the appointment of 53-year-old Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, K.C.B., C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., M.C., one of Britain's ablest soldiers...
...appointment of Alexander was a neat solution. Said the Ottawa Evening Journal: "[He] is peculiarly qualified to give this country service far beyond his ritualistic duties." But many French Canadians were unsoothed. Cried the nationalist Le Droit: "Once more Mr. King has gone to Great Britain for Canada's Governor General. The diehard imperialists once more have gained their ends...
Next spring, the 17th Governor General of Canada since Confederation, his wife (the former Lady Margaret Diana Bingham) and three children will move into Rideau Hall, the spacious Governor General's residence at Rockcliffe, a suburb of Ottawa. He will represent King George VI in Canada, and like the King, will act only on the advice of the Government. He will be expected to remain aloof from politics. Quiet, self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander was reported to be the choice of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...personnel will be out of northern Canada by winter. Under the terms of an Ottawa-Washington agreement, the bases which cost the U.S. $90,000,000 (including the cost of the "Northwest Staging Route" to Alaska) become the property of Canada...