Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 900 square miles of rolling hills, woods, rivers, canals, the cities of Ottawa and Hull will be converted into a "National Capital District," most of it across the Ottawa River in Quebec province. The whole district will be a memorial to Canada's World War II dead...
...wartime liquor drought was eased last week. Five provinces doubled the ration from 26 oz. (slightly less than a quart) to 52 oz. a month; two quadrupled it from 13 to 52 oz. (Quebec's generous 80-oz. ration remained the same, and Prince Edward Island stayed...
Arpents & Offspring. When Jean Trudel arrived at Quebec in 1645 he was just 16, a weaver by trade, and poor as Job. In his first ten years in New France, he worked for an apothecary, tilled the soil, fought Indians. When he had learned all the tricks necessary for survival in a frontier land, he was given the traditional 30 arpents of land (one arpent: approximately one and a half acres), and was on his own. He cleared away the forest, built a house, then married a Netherlander named Marguerite Thomas...
...Quebec's records tell the rest. The 1681 census discloses that Jean and Marguerite owned two guns, their 30 arpents, eight cattle, and had four children at home. Church records reveal that practically every other year for more than 30, they became either parents or grandparents. All told, they had eleven children, who produced 60, who in turn produced 226 more. One Trudel had 16 children, ten of whom married; the ten begot no less than ten children each...
...years, the Trudels have become so numerous they have begun to lose count of themselves. Though 2,500 last week managed to get to Quebec (some from as far away as Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia and western Canada), there were 17,500 other known descendants of the original Jean and Marguerite who could not make...