Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of war's delay, an imposing list of 183 debutantes was docketed for presentation to Canada's Governor General, the Earl of Athlone, and his Countess, the Princess Alice. One of the girls listed her home town as Victoria, B.C., 3,000 miles away. Among the others: a Molson (beer), a Dawes (beer) and a Timmins (gold). For half an hour, while friends stood on chairs to watch the ceremony, they presented cards to aides-de-camp, who announced them in precise British accents...
Last week this "selfless and sustained devotion to duty" brought for "Hammy" Gray the British Empire's highest award for valor-the Victoria Cross. He was Canada's 13th V.C. and the sixth from British Columbia...
...Twenty-three years before, he had been koum to Peter's father, King Alexander I of Yugo slavia, who married Princess Marie of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...Government's meat-rationing troubles grew & grew. In Victoria, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Saint John, many another Canadian city and town, butchers topped off days of beefing about rationing by going on strike. In Montreal, some butchers closed their shops, then marched in a body to shops that stayed open, forced them to close too. Meat trucks reportedly were overturned. In Alberta, some 4,000 coal miners said they would walk off their jobs unless they got double meat rations...
...getting married," replied Jane, who had served as a nurse in Italy and had not seen her fiance since he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and demobilized with a serious head wound...