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Roosevelt Steamship Co.'s City of Baltimore was, as TIME stated, the first ship documented out of Baltimore since days of clippers. "Documented" means flying the flag of the port. Allan Line was an English line of which the home port was Glasgow. It operated between Quebec and Glasgow, using Halifax as a winter port. Its boats all had one word names and there is no record of a Novascotian. In 1915 the Allan Line was bought by Canadian Pacific. Empress of France is an old Allan Liner...
Like its predecessor, that great & good seller Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock is concerned with the American scene, colonial times. But Authoress Cather has moved from Spanish Southwest to French Northeast: the rock her story shadows is Quebec, at the turn of 1700. If you expect to encounter shades of Wolfe and Montcalm, of the storming of the Plains of Abraham, you will be disappointed; the story does not move that far (Quebec fell in 1759). There is not so much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered...
...When a family named Davidson returned home at Ste. Timothe, Quebec, they found their dog, which as usual they had left to guard their 5-month-old baby, sulking. Mr. Davidson killed the dog, after he discovered that the dog had killed and eaten the baby...
...harbor of Montreal there was great bustle last week, and a flow of more real French than usual. Eight out of ten natives of Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate...
...reprimanded by the Department of Commerce for "poor judgment" in her autogiro crackup (TIME, June 22), her husband's publishing company (Brewer, Warren & Putnam) brought out the first book written by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks. Last week Capt. Hawks returned from Europe, unloaded his plane from the steamer at Quebec, flew it off the pier...