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Canada at War: NOVA SCOTIA: Big Haul

Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which...

Investigations: The Backlash from Q-29BW

At the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission operations center in suburban Toronto, a technician twisted a control handle to the right to raise the voltage. In the...

Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: The Big Burn

A party of fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the...

Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Boat Boom

In the little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70...

Canada: For Santa Claus

In the mountain wood lots that ring Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, it was Christmas-tree harvest time. During the summer, lanky Bruce Swinamer, 43, had been out...

Canada: Lives in the Balance

At 8:15 one morning last week, two men rang the doorbell at the fashionable Montreal home of James R. ("Jasper") Cross, who directs the British trade office in...

Sport: Top to Bottom

If there had been any doubt about it before, there was no longer: the Montreal Canadiens are the greatest team in hockey history. Last week, completing the job...

Universities: A Flowering Up North

"I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more probably with it, a...

Hockey: Eight in Thirteen

Only those who were inside know exactly what testy Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, 55, said when he barred the doors of the last-place Montreal Canadiens'...

CANADA: Cutting Air Fares

"A travel revolution," editorialized the Montreal Star. "A stab in the back," groaned a U.S. airline official. "A death blow," conceded one Canadian...

Canada at War: NOVA SCOTIA: For Courage

Unobtrusive among the names of 858 other Canadians commended in King George VI's New Year's Honors List was that of a quiet, coolheaded civilian who had helped...

Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Hooch for Haligonians

Hard-drinking Haligonians have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50ยข for a permit, had to wait in...

CANADA: Mitch

(See front cover) The mighty Province which has more people, grows more food and manufactures more products than any other in Canada is fabulous...

Canada: No to Separatism

The specter of Quebec separatism has long haunted English-speaking Canadians. The secession of the large French-speaking province would sunder the country...

Foreign News: The Squire

Had duty not so incessantly thwarted desire, the gaunt nobleman with the melancholy face might never have been known beyond his Yorkshire estate. He was the kind...

Canada at War: ONTARIO: Beaver Hunt

In the quiet waters of Ontario's Algonquin Park, where the beavers live protected lives, four Cree Indians, Dominion Fur Supervisor Hugh Conn and his wife were...

Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Strikebound Fleet

No winter gale ever tied up Nova Scotia's deep-sea fishing fleet so completely as the strike that held it in port last week when the fishing weather was fine...

Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Annie's Day

In all the tiny fishing villages that snuggle in Nova Scotia's rocky coves, there is no fisherwoman quite like Mrs. Annie Lyons of Hadleyville on Chedabucto...

Canada: Liberal Defeat

Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 69, who has built a large part of his effort to unify English and French Canada by cooperating with the...