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Skiing without their number one man, Harry Gardner, the skiers lost by a narrow 15 point margin. McGill, the host, finished first with 556 points, followed by Laval of Quebec, 552, and the Dartmouth B team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sporting Scene | 2/23/1954 | See Source »

...team were at full strength, Coach Graham Taylor would rate it as a possible top team in today's McGill Carnival at San Sanveur, Quebec. But, because of four key injuries, the team has little hope of topping the field, which is led by favored McGill, the host team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Ski Team to Compete In McGill's Carnival Today | 2/19/1954 | See Source »

...interests of keeping "religious friction at a minimum," the Quebec Board of Censors barred the movie Martin Luther from public exhibition in that province. "We barred the English film Oliver Twist," explained Board Chairman Alexis Gagnon, "because Jewish groups protested that the portrayal of Fagin the Jew might lead people to think of all Jews as being malicious . . . Some Catholics might not get excited about [Martin Luther]. But there are those who might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Double Jeopardy. In Quebec, a month after her husband was locked up for threatening her with an ax, Mrs. Armand Beland asked a city judge to send him home, added: "Would it be possible to have the ax back? The St. Vincent de Paul Society has given us some wood and we have no ax to split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...foreign politician, McCarthy is well known in Canada; 43% of those polled could identify him. Of this group, 35% disapproved of McCarthy while 33% approved; the others held no strong opinion either way. Opposition to McCarthy was strong in western Canada, but the poll in French-speaking, Roman Catholic Quebec showed a majority of nearly 4 to i of McCarthy admirers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: McCarthy in Canada | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

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