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...Quebec City was an armed camp. On roads leading into the French Canadian provincial capital, police flagged down motorists and searched their cars. The airport and railway station swarmed with plainclothesmen. On the cliffs overlooking the St. Lawrence River, khaki-clad Canadian army troops took their positions while Navy frogmen ran a final check for mines in the dock area of Wolfe's Cove. Yellow police barricades lined the city streets, and knots of helmeted riot police stood ready. Their orders were clear: all demonstrations were banned...
...lustily cheered. Now she is coming to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of Cana dian confederation, and there lies the trouble. In the last few years, the long-smoldering antagonism between English and French Canadians has erupted in bitter, open division. Centered in the province of Quebec, French Canadians are in revolt against what they regard as a century of British domination; they demand a stronger voice in federal affairs and greater provincial autonomy. A small but growing number wants to split Canada into separate nations; a few even preach violence against everything British in Canada, including Queen...
Most French Canadians abhor such lunatic-fringe suggestions. But many are nonetheless prepared to give the Queen a cool reception. In Quebec last week the 300,000-member St. Jean-Baptiste Society, a highly nationalistic group, urged French Canadians to "give the authorities unequivocal evidence of their discontent by staying home...
Whether they do or not, the Cana dian government has laid on the most extensive security precautions in Canada's peacetime history. The Queen will visit only three cities: Charlottetown on English-speaking Prince Edward Is land, the Quebec capital of Quebec City, and the federal capital at Ottawa. As she sails up the St. Lawrence River aboard the royal yacht Britannia, frog men will check the hull for mines at every stop. During parades, she will ride in a closed, bulletproof limousine, and in Quebec City a fleet of armored riot-control trucks awaits...
...QUEBEC-OUI: OTTAWA-NON (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). An NBC News special on Canadian nationalism...