Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere in Ontario and in two other Canadian provinces, most voters were better informed than Father Leguerrier. Campaigns were already under way in Saskatchewan (election: June 24) and in New Brunswick (June 28). Quebec and Alberta citizens, promised an election this summer, were still waiting for their premiers to name...
...those 30 miles of falls and rapids that the true riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...
...main anniversary event was a banquet too big for the club to handle: two dining rooms were taken at the Windsor Hotel. Quebec's party hierarchy was on hand. So were 13 members of the federal Cabinet, and at the last minute Prime Minister Mackenzie King showed...
...could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared so many years ... in the pursuit of Liberal ideals...
...evening's end, Liberals were sure they knew what was up. King's visit and the support of federal bigwigs for God-bout indicated that Ottawa's Liberal big guns would move to Quebec for the provincial elections. If the whole federal battery was going to work on Duplessis, that swashbuckling politico might be in for some rough times, even if the Tories came to the support of his Union Nationale...