Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since 1908, when the Pope declared that mixed marriages of Catholics and Protestants by Protestant clergymen were contrary to Catholic canon law, Catholic judges in Canada's overwhelmingly Catholic province of Quebec have declared such unions illegal and annulled them. But last week the highest tribunal in the Province, the Court of Appeals, unanimously threw out such an annulment, indicating that a papal decree did not change the laws of Quebec...
Before 1908 mixed marriages were not questioned in Quebec, because in 1741 Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation" was still in force when the present Quebec civil code was promulgated in 1866. But after Pius X revoked it in 1908, Quebec judges began interpreting the civil code provision that impediments to marriage "remain subject to the rules followed hitherto in the various churches" to mean they remain subject...
...Quebec, police rounded up another youth with a homemade D.F.C. and shoulder insignia. He had been lecturing on his "experiences" before a Rotary Club. When arrested he was planning a broadcast about his latest flight of fancy: piloting the Duke of Kent to Canada...
...Century Explorer Jacques Cartier told his monarch in France that the Saguenay River in Quebec flowed through a land of gold and rubies, oranges and almonds, wherein dwelt men with no digestive organs, square bodies, and only one leg. Almost as unbelievable, for a modern nation at war, was the story last week, also from Saguenay, of how most of Canada's aluminum industry had been put out of action for weeks to come. The stoppage occurred at the $150,000,000 Aluminium, Ltd. plant at Arvida which, using cheap water power to process ship-borne bauxite ore from...
...Last week, RFC's Metals Reserve Co. got aid from Britain by persuading Aluminum Co. of Canada (which had earmarked its whole output for Britain) to sell the U.S. $63,000,000 worth of aluminum. To fill the order, the company will spend $60,000,000 expanding its Quebec plants. Such increases in capacity, reinforced by competition, may some day make even 10? aluminum look expensive...