Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa's plush red Senate chamber. Télésphore Damien Bouchard rose to make his maiden speech as a Senator from Quebec Province. His explosive subject: the not-so-latent hostility between French Quebec and the rest of Canada. Said he: "I still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...
Senator Bouchard said that this Order had been founded with the blessing of the French Canadian Catholic clergy. He said that the Order's leaders had infiltrated into patriotic societies, boards of trade and municipal councils. He said that Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs...
Engineer Crowe has changed the physical landscape perhaps more than any other individual in history. Born 61 years ago of American parents in Trenholmville, Quebec, he grew up playing tag across the log jams of Maine's great Ossippe River. By the time he graduated from the University of Maine in 1905 with a B.S. in civil engineering, a summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree...
...voluble Jean François Pouliot loves to talk & talk. Like his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...