Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations. Canada (pop. 13,000,000) leads the world in production of newsprint, nickel and asbestos; stands second in wheat exports, aluminum and zinc; third in copper, gold & silver mining. The hemisphere's richest uranium mine is in the Canadian North. The vast iron-ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec can replace the dwindling U.S. Mesabi range as the mainstay of U.S. steelmaking. New oilfields in Alberta are already compared to the fabulous wells of west Texas...
Louis St. Laurent, the man who must deal with Canada's economic quandary, is Prime Minister of Canada almost in spite of himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...
...Laurent hesitated, then asked the advice of the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop pf Quebec. The cardinal urged him to take the job, pointing out that as a symbol of national unity in wartime it was important to have a prominent French Canadian in the cabinet. On the day St. Laurent accepted the post, a new granddaughter was born in a Quebec hospital. Louis St. Laurent traveled over from Ottawa to see the baby, stood over her crib and mused aloud: "For myself, I may be making a mistake, but perhaps in the long run this child will benefit...
After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...
...Rockies bar Alberta oil from British Columbia; rail rates are too high, and the demand for oil does not justify the high cost of building a pipeline across the mountains. Similarly, the high cost of transport tends to bar Alberta oil from the Ontario and Quebec industrial areas, which are supplied by pipelines from the U.S. and tankers from the Caribbean and the Middle East. Thus the fields' natural market is the oil-hungry U.S. Midwest, which can be reached easily from Alberta...