Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking a vote to "release" his Government of "past commitments," the wily Prime Minister sidestepped his critics in Ontario and his promises in Quebec...
Splitting in two parts, some of the skiequad will entrain for Saint Sauveur in Quebec, while others make Stowe and the Mount Mansfield area in Vermont their destination. Many other fans will open the winter sports season at the Club's cabin near Pinkham Notch...
Ernest Lapointe was a national figure as envoy to London, Geneva and Canberra, as Acting Prime Minister and a power behind the Administration; yet he remained a native son from whom Quebec expected-and got-special attention to provincial interests...
...spot as Minister of Justice in World War II, he was accused of Fascist methods in enforcing the occasionally unfathomable Defense of Canada regulations. Because he spoke out for a declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called...
...thousands of French Canadians filed past his body lying in state in the provincial legislature at Quebec city, a disturbing thought ran through many a mind: there was no one to replace him. Louis Alexandre Tascherau was one possible candidate-but he was 73. Quietly competent Joseph Adelard Godbout, Premier of Quebec, was another-but he was inexperienced in national politics...