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Canadians still like snowshoeing. Quebec alone has 75 clubs de raquette, innumerable snowshoe festivals. Last week, in that quaint old city, 4,000 U. S. and Canadian raquetteurs gathered for their annual get-together. In Mardi Gras mood, with bands tootling, they paraded through its snaky, snowy streets, dressed in the gaily colored winter costumes of the French-Canadian settlers...
...Joseph Sirois of Quebec was a provincial notary and professor of Constitutional Law until 1937, when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. A year later he succeeded Newton W. Rowell as chairman of the Commission, and for two years he labored tirelessly to produce what came to be known as the Rowell-Sirois Report - virtually a new constitution for Canada. The report was a plan to end the incoherence, irregularity and overlapping of powers which exist among the nine provinces of Canada, to centralize fiscal and social policies in the Dominion Government...
...with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...
Since World War II began, French-Canada's Roman Catholic churches have several times prayed for peace. Last week Canada was pleased and proud when Quebec's Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve announced Feb. 9 as "a day of prayer for victory," wondered whether that meant Vatican approval of the British cause...