Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time for the Dominion of Canada to realize that this country is no longer going to be governed by the dictates and whims of the Province of Quebec." Almost before the speaker finished, the Canadian House of Commons blanketed his words with rolling shouts of "Shame! Shame!" and "Hear! Hear...
...Canada Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, led 4,700,000 Catholics (42% of Canada's population) in a day of prayer for "victory"-in definite contrast to earlier prayers which were merely for "peace." The action offered even more concrete encouragement to the British, for Cardinal Villeneuve, probably the most influential French Canadian, by himself celebrating a votive High Mass for victory in Montreal's famed old Notre Dame Church and afterwards reviewing a parade of French-Canadian troops, gave the Church's full blessing to Britain's and Canada's war. Other Canadians...
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Canadians still like snowshoeing. Quebec alone has 75 clubs de raquette, innumerable snowshoe festivals. Last week, in that quaint old city, 4,000 U. S. and Canadian raquetteurs gathered for their annual get-together. In Mardi Gras mood, with bands tootling, they paraded through its snaky, snowy streets, dressed in the gaily colored winter costumes of the French-Canadian settlers...
...with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British Columbia's round, pink Thomas Dufferin Pattullo...