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...York until last May, when we decided that, as a special addition to the magazine for one part of the world, it should move closer to its subject. Editor of the section is John M. Scott, 33, a native of Vancouver, who was a reporter for the Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record and the Montreal Gazette, and wrote for TIME in New York for five years before he took over as Canada editor. Scott is at present the homebody of an all-Canadian clan: he found time last week to send reports on the election results to his father, Princeton Professor...
MONTREAL, Quebec, April 8--Liberal leader Lester B. Pearson has emerged as Canada's next Prime Minister on the basis of today's nationwide elections. As of 1130 p.m. he did not have a working majority, but this party had won or was leading 128 ridings. The majority figure...
...province of Quebec, Social Credit representation was cut down from 26 seats to 18. The Conservatives also lost ground, dropping from 14 to seven seats. The Liberals added 15 representatives to their previous total of 35. The island of Montreal gave 21 of 22 seats to the Liberals, losing only one to P.C. incumbent Georges Valade. Social Credit made no inroads on the island, the largest city in Canada...
...Pearson and the Liberals were ahead, but not decisively. Many thought that the Liberals might win about 120 seats, short of the 134 seats needed to form a majority government in Parliament. Ontario was strongly Liberal; the prairies, prosperous from grain sales to Red China, were for Diefenbaker. But Quebec flamed with French Canadian nationalism and the demagoguery of Social Credit Leader Réal Caouette, and the west coast was split every which...
Before election day, Caouette will have carried his message to 74 of Quebec's 75 ridings-all but icebound lies de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. And for the rally that will climax his campaign, he has rented the 13,728-seat Montreal Forum, home ice for the Canadiens hockey team. "It won't be Imperial Esso hockey night in Canada," cries Caouette. "It will be the night of national liberation...