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Died. Edwin Haldeman Dennison, 58, U. S. Consul in Quebec since 1919; in Quebec. A partial paralytic, he slipped in his bathtub, struck the hot water tap, was scalded head-to-foot before he could be pulled out. He died two days later...
...miner's foot." He went to California. In 1907 he went to Labrador. For a while he ran the King Edward Mill at Cobalt, Ontario, then was off to the Porcupine District, then the Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later he staked the claims, financed by a syndicate of farmers. Experts refused to buy him out but in 1922 two New York men, Humphrey W. Chadbourne (brother of Sugarman Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne) and Samuel C. Thomson, mining engineers, prospecting in the district, formed the Noranda...
...Quebec to Montreal. In 1925 little Joie Ray could run an indoor mile faster than anyone else in the U. S. Three years ago, too old for mile runs, he entered the Boston Marathon and finished third on bleeding feet chafed to the bone by ill-fitting shoes. Last week he strapped snowshoes on his feet and entered the 200-mi. snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal, competing with northwoodsmen who had used snowshoes all their lives. Frank Hoey started ahead and Joie Ray was far back in the pack. His cheeks froze; he tramped through deep snow with...
...Politically Canada was a French colony during the whole of the 17th, the greater part of the 18th Century. Socially, linguistically the Province of Quebec is still French. Its conservative votes were the decisive factor in putting Conservative Mr. Bennett into the prime ministry. No Canadian politician is complete until thoroughly grounded in French-Canadian psychology...
...that Price Bros, "now intends to adopt immediately whatever independence of policy and action it may be compelled to follow in order to protect its position and the interest of its stock-holders." Ernest Rossiter, president of St. Lawrence Corporation Ltd., gave simi- lar notice to the Institute. Meanwhile Quebec's Premier Louis Alexandre Tasch-ereau, who with Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario had much to do with the formation of the Institute (when they were trying to up the price to $60 per ton) declared himself "completely in the dark...