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...Nineteen-year-old Quintuplet Marie Dionne, for whom half the world prayed when her life flickered for days after her birth, announced that she would become a nun. She will enter the convent of the Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Quebec City this fall, a cloistered order devoted to perpetual adoration of the Holy Sacrament. "From now on," she said, "I will have an opportunity to repay those people who remembered me when I was in need...
...already has begun to use it in small key parts of valves, soon will be making special valves entirely of it. He has sent geologist scouts around the continent hunting deposits of rutile and ilmenite, the chief sources of titanium. They have already staked out some promising claims in Quebec...
Last week aging (72) Bertie McCormick traveled north to inaugurate, with the help of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, the latest McCormick power project, a $15 million, 90,000-h.p. hydroelectric plant on Quebec's north shore of the St. Lawrence. Built by the colonel's Manicouagan Power Co. and dominated by McCormick Dam, the plant will supply reserve power for McCormick's paper mill in nearby Baie Comeau...
Gone are the legendary draveurs who. jeering at death as they twirled long pike poles like batons, rode great logs down white water to the mills. In Quebec's 325-mile-long St. Maurice River valley, scene of the world's biggest log drive each year, the treacherous rapids have disappeared. Tamed by six major power dams, the turbulent St. Maurice has subsided. The romantic log drive of old has given way to a largely mechanized operation...
Into the Trade. The credit for opening people's eyes to Canada's Eskimo artists goes to a Quebec artist named Jim Houston, 32, who first went to the Arctic in 1948. Fascinated by the exquisite little figures he saw, Houston brought back a few examples, persuaded the nonprofit Canadian Handicrafts Guild to put Eskimo carvings on sale. They sold like hotcakes, and each year Houston traveled north for more supplies. Later, the guild put out booklets filled with helpful advice to the Eskimo artists. Sample: "Man throwing harpoon, or spearing through ice ... If they are carefully carved...