Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had been the by-election in Pontiac, Quebec, lost to a Social Crediter, and the by-elections in Toronto-Parkdale and Portage la Prairie last week, lost to the Progressive Conservatives. The worst bump was raised by Portage. The Liberals had not only fought hardest there to keep the seat, Liberal for the last eleven years, but the election had been decided on an important national issue (TIME, Aug. 5). The farmers had shown that they did not like the wheat agreement, under which Canadians sold wheat to Britain at far less than the world price. Yet the Liberals...
Specifically U.S. and Canadian troops, with uniform equipment, would be stationed at big bases like Churchill, Manitoba (tentatively, Canada would have 500 men there, the U.S. 100), at forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...
There have now been three by-elections which tested political sentiment since the Dominion election of mid-1945.* Tories had won twice, a Social Crediter once (in Quebec last month). There was no longer denying the nation's surge to the right...
...boot came from the constituency of Pontiac, a huge district in the mining area of western Quebec. Only once in 30 years (in 1930) had Pontiac ever voted anything but Liberal. But last week, in a by-election to fill a vacancy caused by M.P. Wallace Reginald McDonald's death, Pontiac turned the Liberals out. The winner was a Social Creditor, Real Caouette, 29 (pronounced...
...remote backwoods fishing camp near Quebec's Baie des Chaleurs, a big-business phenomenon came to an end last week. George Washington Hill (TIME, Sept. 9), 61, president of American Tobacco Co., died of a heart attack...