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Referring to your article entitled "Largest'' in TIME, July 28, let me ask if the canvas mentioned is not less than half the size of the famous Cyclorama canvas of The Holy Land now at Ste. Anne de Beaupre, outside of Quebec. The dimensions of this are, as I remember them, 40 ft. by 360 ft. This canvas then has an area of 14,400 sq. ft. Six men worked four years to complete...
...Quebec. Observers found the greatest proof of the strength of Conservative Bennett in the "Miracle of Quebec." Since the War, the French-speaking province of Quebec has been Canada's "Solid South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT...
...Montreal a sudden, violent electric storm halted telegraph and telephone service election night and drenched bulletin board watchers. As they rushed for home they knew that Quebec, normally Liberal, had given Conservatives at least 16 seats, that Conservatives had ten and Liberals one of New Brunswick's eleven seats, that Prince Edward Island voted three Conservatives and one Liberal into office. It appeared certain that Mr. Bennett's Conservatives had given him a majority of Parliament's 245 seats. Mr. King had perhaps 100. The minor parties had negligible counts. The Liberal-Progressives seemingly had broken...
From Fletcher's Field, Montreal, over a 500-mi. irregular course of roads through Victoriaville. Quebec, Ste. Anne de la Perade, Joliette, and back to Montreal's baseball stadium runners plodded last week in a relay race. Eighteen thousand spectators cheered the winners. Swathed in wraps, Arthur Newton of Rhodesia, South Africa, and Peter Gavuzzi of Southampton, England, hurried away to get some rest. Their total time for the 500-mi. course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time...
...real issue has nothing to do with Saskatchewan Catholics, Quebec farmers or Ontario's industrial proletariat. The na- tional issue is the Canadian tariff...