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...solution to the strike. It was doubtful whether he could get away for a trip to the U.S., where he was scheduled to appear before a United Nations committee studying British Guiana's case for full independence, and he was forced to send his regrets to the Winnipeg Press Club in Canada, where he was supposed to make a speech. As a substitute, Cheddi wired the Canadians that he would send his wife Janet to do the talking...
Pearson returned to the University of Toronto as a history lecturer and part-time football and hockey coach. In 1925 he married the prettiest student in his history seminar, Maryon Elspeth Moody, a Winnipeg doctor's daughter. "I taught her for a year," quips Pearson, "and she's been teaching me ever since...
...cried that the Liberals had sabotaged his parliamentary program-which, in fact, the dillydallying Diefenbaker government never actually presented in full to Parliament for debate. Though he promised not to run an anti-U.S. campaign, Diefenbaker found subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling in Canadian affairs. In Winnipeg, Man., he appeared beneath a banner urging "Vote Canadian, Vote Conservative," a slogan thought up by a local Esso dealer and described by a Tory strategist "as the only way of being anti-American without letting your slip show...
...than into all of Kenneth Roberts' novels. In the course of its 292 years existence, "the Bay" has fought shooting wars with the French over fur trapping in Eastern Canada, and tussled with the U.S. over the Oregon Territory. To look at the remodeled Winnipeg warehouse that is the company's operating headquarters, or to listen to its board of directors ceremoniously called to order in London as ''the Annual General Court of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay,'' one might think that...
...company went steadily downhill until arrogant, able Philip Alfred Chester took over as general manager in 1931. By the time he retired in 1959, Chester had converted the Bay from a mere fur trader into Canada's third largest retailer.* There are now big Bay department stores in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria, as well as 33 smaller "Bay Stores" in cities under 30,000 population, 185 "Northern Stores'' in upcountry towns, and 30 trading outposts, nearly all above the Arctic Circle...