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After that, it was anybody's fight. Roger Lemelin, author of Au Pied de la Pente Douce, a story about Quebec City, took the middle way. Obviously, he argued, French Canadians have the intellectual characteristics of their race, but it is natural that they should write about their North American surroundings...
...literary todo, more than artistic attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
That afternoon, many a Montrealer heard the news of the raid and padlocking with shocked alarm. Sputtered Editor Gelinas, at a meeting of Communist students at McGill Union building: "This is just the beginning of Fascism in Quebec. . . . The issue is freedom of the press and freedom of thought...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...
While she bustled about the kitchen, M. Paul Miville-Dechêne, the Quebec Liquor Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers...