Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...
...believe their eyes. There were two turkeys, a whole pig's head, great pieces of pork and ham and veal, a beef tongue, fruits, nuts, candy, piles of vegetables and a big jar of olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first the big réveillon feast that would follow midnight Mass, and then le diner de Noë at 1 o'clock Christmas afternoon...
While she bustled about the kitchen, M. Paul Miville-Dechêne, the Quebec Liquor Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers...
...prewar days, Quebec's Fascist National Unity Party claimed 80,000 members and openly talked about a march on Ottawa to seize the government. N.U.P. folded when its leader, Adrien Arcand, was interned during the war. But N.U.P. is not dead; recently some 850 members held a rally in Montreal. Time Correspondent Stuart Keate visited Leader Arcand in his home at Lanoraie, near Montreal, last week wired this report...
...spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...