Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the narrow, tortuous streets of old Quebec City banners urged: "Allans à I'Exposition." At the rate of 31,000 a day les Québecois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...
...salty tang and fishy smell of tiny Grande Rivière (pop. 992) on Quebec's rugged Gaspé coast, something new had been added: an air of progress and prosperity. It showed in little things: new rubber boots on the fishermen; gay colored raincoats on their wives & children. Fat bank accounts told more...
...Commons last week Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that henceforth the Dominion's 15,858 draft-dodgers, absentees and deserters would be exempt from arrest or prosecution. There was one exception : the order would not apply to absentees and deserters who are still overseas. To anti-conscription Quebec the amnesty brought immense relief: most of the delinquents hiding out at home are Quebeckers...
...take [the Barrett] suggestion seriously. . . Nevertheless . . . there is one, and only one, state of affairs which could possibly induce us to take such a step. If a time should come when the people of eight provinces believe . . . that their lives and destinies are being controlled and influenced by Quebec. . .it is conceivable that they might resent it so forcefully that some other condition than confederation might be preferable. This is not the fantastic projection of a nightmare. It is a possibility...
...French Canadians, over one-third of Canada's population, can afford to take the long view. The best protection for their culture lies in something no tourist can miss-the swarms of children that play about the old outdoor ovens and the creaking, great-winged windmills. Quebec's birthrate, which has long outstripped the rest of Canada's, may some day make the French Canadians the majority in the Dominion. The habitant calls it the "victory in the cradle." Time, and the long winter nights, are on French Canada's side...