Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ecclesiastical firmament of Canada last week. In Ottawa, the Apostolic Delegate announced that the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, Bishop of Three Rivers and the youngest Roman Catholic prelate in the Dominion, had been named by the Pope to head the Dominion's oldest diocese, as eleventh Archbishop of Quebec. He will succeed the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve...
When he is enthroned, 42-year-old Bishop Roy will return to the city of his birth, where his father is a judge and good friend of Premier Maurice Duplessis. The Archbishop-designate has another tie with the Quebec Nationalist leader: Duplessis is a resident of his present diocese, Three Rivers...
...Quebec Catholics, and Canadians at large, were quick to point out the parallel between his career and that of Cardinal Villeneuve. The latter was a seminarian, free from factional ties, consecrated at 46 and given the red hat less than three years later. Canadians wondered whether Monsignor Roy would complete the parallel by becoming a cardinal at the next Papal consistory...
...dapper little man with a lisp and a limp walked into an UNRRA office in Germany and showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
...Dominion political life. Descendant of New England Tories of Revolutionary War days-he sometimes refers to his "New England conscience"-Doug Abbott had nothing to do with politics until he was 41. His career was law, his sports were bridge, golf, curling and fishing. Born in 1899 (at Lennoxville, Quebec), he served overseas in World War I, returned to finish his law studies. By 1940 he had a pretty wife, three children, a medium-sized income in a medium-sized Montreal law firm, and an idea that he might like to be a judge. As a steppingstone, he decided...