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...Camille Fournier of Quebec City hooked the biggest trout in his life in the Jacques Cartier River. He yanked too hard. Fish and line flew through the air and tangled in the antlers of a moose peering out of the trees; the moose dashed off with Fournier's prize...
...past decade since Baptists and other Protestant groups have stepped up their efforts to organize churches in the solidly Catholic towns and villages. This time, the attack on the evangelists caused an immediate uproar. Telegrams poured in on the La Sarre town council from Catholics and Protestants in Quebec and outside the province...
...changing society? One faction, led by Laval University's dean of social sciences, the Very Rev. Georges-Henri ("Jolly Monk") Lévesque, argues for a militant championship of the working class; this faction has promoted cooperatives and Catholic trade unions. An opposing group, supported by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, believes that the rural parish society must be strengthened and that the church must stay aloof from class antagonisms, though it should fight for social justice...
...article by Ottawa Editor Blair Fraser, brought the argument into the open. Author Fraser gave unstinted support to the Levesque faction and belabored the opposing group. "The Duplessis government," he charged, "has used every kind of pressure on Laval University to fire [Levesque]; ultra-conservatives in the Quebec clergy have twice carried their war against him to the Vatican itself . . ." To force the issue at Laval, continued Fraser, Duplessis had withheld half of a provincial $4,000,000 grant...
...certain clerics defied the Duplessis government and supported labor. "Leader in this prolabor, anti-Duplessis swing was Msgr. Joseph Charbonneau, Archbishop of Montreal, [who] last winter was summarily dismissed. Ostensibly he retired 'for reasons of health.'. . . Against Levesque [and his followers] are all the men who want Quebec to stay exactly as it is, or . . . as it was 50 years ago; for him, the men who believe change is imminent and overdue...