Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until 1910, when Quebec's Government paved provincial route No. , the patient habitants of thrifty, prosperous Beauce County-trudged to Quebec City's markets along a dismally muddy road that followed the banks of the temperamental Chaudiere River. Because they arrived in Quebec muddy to the seats of their pants, they were called then (and still are, behind their backs) jarrets noirs, meaning black calves...
...little French Canadian elevator operator gazed at his only passenger, a newsman who had covered the United Nations Food and Agriculture Conference in Quebec (TIME...
...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
Thirty-seven nations had joined. Russia had one of the largest delegations (26 members) at Quebec. Day after day the Russian delegates followed the proceedings, waiting for permission from Moscow to sign up. The permission never came...
Michael Fulker worked in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac kitchen, grew to manhood among the shanties of Ontario's towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when...