Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ontario and Quebec, to meet truck and ship competition, rates are below the legal maximum. They are higher on the noncompetitive prairies, higher still over the Rockies because of a "mountain differential." The Maritimes get a 20% reduction...
...words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...
After that, it was anybody's fight. Roger Lemelin, author of Au Pied de la Pente Douce, a story about Quebec City, took the middle way. Obviously, he argued, French Canadians have the intellectual characteristics of their race, but it is natural that they should write about their North American surroundings...
...literary todo, more than artistic attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
That afternoon, many a Montrealer heard the news of the raid and padlocking with shocked alarm. Sputtered Editor Gelinas, at a meeting of Communist students at McGill Union building: "This is just the beginning of Fascism in Quebec. . . . The issue is freedom of the press and freedom of thought...