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Engineer Crowe has changed the physical landscape perhaps more than any other individual in history. Born 61 years ago of American parents in Trenholmville, Quebec, he grew up playing tag across the log jams of Maine's great Ossippe River. By the time he graduated from the University of Maine in 1905 with a B.S. in civil engineering, a summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree...
...voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...
Forty Canadian cities and towns have adopted Russian towns, pledged to send them clothing and hospital supplies. Even Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve has endorsed Russian relief drives. Soviet friendship has already paid off for Canada. A Soviet engineering commission visited Toronto recently and reportedly left specifications of a $25,000,000 order for hydroelectric equipment. In the works are long-term Canadian-Soviet trade agreements which Canadians hope will make the $25,000,000 order look like peanuts...
...Canada's past came a once-great voice. It was the voice of 75-year-old Henri Bourassa, the bearded lion of Quebec nationalism...