Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardest-hit province was Quebec, with 75,000 jobless. Next was Ontario with...
Giannini landed at Quebec, crossed Canada secretly, got to Lake Tahoe before anyone knew he was in the U.S. He began a giant proxy fight, barnstormed California, finally recaptured control, with 63% of the stockholders' proxies. He went back in triumph to the Bank of America's big building in San Francisco...
Another prediction: by 1971 Ontario (now 4,004,000) would lose its place as Canada's most populous province. By then the province would count 4,382,000, but the prolific French Canadians of Quebec (now 3,561,000) would have increased...
...centuries the wind, sweeping down over vast, unknown Ungava* in northern Quebec, had covered nature's riches with a deep mantle of snow. Hungry caribou foraged for lichen. A few thousand Eskimos and Indians trapped beaver, hunted seals. The white man had crossed Ungava on foot only three times, had flown in briefly to prospect for minerals-and had not even scratched Ungava's bountiful surface...
...Million Cash. Last fortnight the Quebec Government gave Hollinger an exclusive 20-year concession to explore and develop 3,900 square miles of Ungava directly across the border from its Labrador concession (see map). Hollinger and a U.S. associate, the iron mining firm of M. A. Hanna, agreed to spend upward of $300 million...