■|i I—i> //lid! •idiU'd hhil? 10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 6, 1956 There’s a Warm Welcome Awaiting In Montreal on 97-Cent Dollars By ERNEST J. NEILL 1 Editor. Lancaster Farming MONTREAL, Quebec Bien venu The welcome mat’s out for the stateside visitor in this metropolis, cordial as you’ll find. But heie the Yankee dollar is depreciated three cents in ex change toi Canadian currency Little would you know you were in a city where 65 per cent of the population speaks French, just by obseivmg the wall dressed people on the sheets, or the excellent stocks in stoie show-windows, until you look more closely and find even street duechon are bil ingual There are berets and bicycles, automobiles and hoise drawn hacks, motorcycles and teams, traffic moving quickly but sanely Stay in your own lane, or you’ie apt to get clipped Canadian and American rHeie’s a pot • pourn of “na tionalities, Italian like Deno Marghmi, from English deriva tion as Jim Neal and Ron Thomson, fxom Polish parent age, Stan Kulin and Francis Z. Stanczyk; pure French Cana dian speaking no English like Miss Fernande Chntien and Miss Rose Beyold, who ex plained by sign language, tapping on an imagmaiy key board that they are typists or cleiks. College Students, woikeis for industiy, all friendly, anxious to make you welgome Although they too are North American, they refer' to the visAoi fiom the South as Ameiican, while .Canadian prevails for them. Students of the Umveisxty of j'Moiitreal, a Catholic University, * often serve as tour conductors for visitors In this case, how ever, the tour conductors were ■ ■■iniHißaißiir ■ Belmont ■ ■ 97 Per Cent Pure * • Agricultural Limestone ■ ■Calcium Oxide 30% J| 2 Magnesium Oxide '. 20% ■ ■ Calcium Equivalent 57% ■ ■ Wenger & ■ ; Sensenig Co. ■ ■ Phone Gap HI 2-4500 ■ ■ RD 1, Paradise, Pa. ■ the friendly Stan and Fian or Ziggy Their French flowed as freely as English. However, one picked up a note of strange pronunciation among a group along the banks of the Lachine Rapids of the St Lawrence River This, he learned, was “text-book French,” spoken by a group of college summer students studying that language Pronunciation varia tions aie as common here as between northern and southern United States, between Spanish of the pure Castillian vauety and that spoken in Latin Am erica One Dollar, Three Per Ce.nt Off Although the U S dollar is welcome in Canada, current rates now stabilized of exchange provide for a three per cent discount To spend $lOO in Canada, > you must spend $lO3 U S, or vou can exchange a good Unites States greenback for 97 cants Cana dian Montreal, although a thou sand miles from-the ocean, via the St Lawrence River, is one of Canada’s busiest seaports Which explains the visit, to see a former Lancaster County teacher, James C Burt, sail for Europe aboard the Holland Am erican Lines SSMS Seven Seas Spot checks aie made by Canadian imrtiigiation authon ties at the border, noith of Lake Champlain, N Y, in this case For some, baggage is in spected, ’ otherwise there are perfunctory questions on place of birth, residence, ownership of automobile, an estimate ot the time you plan to spend in Canada, and at what place Cam el as must be listed, and each is checked into the country and out again. Fields aie flat and seasons much later than here From the border north into Montreal, a distance less than 40 miles, small grains weie still weeks behind those in the Garden Spot Farms, in general, looked much more conservative than those here, but there was an abundance of tractors, Case and Cock Shutt primarily News in French, English The radios poured out news m French and English, of the air collision in Arizona, of a hail storm that wrecked much of Manitoba’s npening wheat crop Road signs were in French and English, but high ways excellent In general, it seemed there has been a plentiful amount of rain, but along the New Jersey Turnpike, irrigation sprinkler systems were busy where truck garden farming was practiced In downtown Montreal here is one ot several outstanding Churches, the Basili ca of St James Cathedral on Dominion Square It is a true, half-size replica ot St Peters in Rome. Note life-size statues * !• According to Stan, ships up 1 to 65.000 tons can dock at the, poit of Monti eal, and'the St Lawience River piovides almost a thousand miles of sheltered navigation for ocean-going, ships Ta the noith 175 mdes j is another busy city, Quebec, or Quebec City, capital of the province; also a seaport in its own right Standards of living are much higher than expected Accoid ing to the two residents, sal aues of $6O per wek are not uncommon foi factory workers and $lOO is paid often Although it is a seaport, Montreal residents are still land-locked and must travel 300 to 900 miles to the ocean Not too long a dnve, however, are the Laurentian Mountains Basilica of St. James with fine vacationing and fine fishing, the quaint Gaspe Penin sula Far to the North is wild erness country, tundra, Hudson Bay a land linked to the sea yet land locked In an excellent educational system, parochial schools cover seven years of grade schools, four yeais of high school Prot estant schools, the residents told, include a year of kinder gaiten, raising grade school re quirements to eight years^ , College for Agriculture Colleges and univeisities are excellent Montreal has two, MoGill University non-sec tenan, and the University of Montreal, Catholic There is a branch of McGill near Mon ti eal, McDonald College, at St Anne du Belleview, which spe cializes in agucultural courses Religion plays a major lole in the lives of Canadiens Chuiches are everywhere, from modest to elaborate Downtown is the Basilica of St James, a Cathedral on Dominion Square, a true half-size replic'a of St Peter’s in Rome Statues of the Apostles stand in iow over the entrance As a tribute to the “Miracle Man of Montreal,” St Joseph’s Oratory stands on an imposing hillside, chosen years ago by Bi other Andre for one of the most impressive structures in the hemisphere Still incom plete, it will eventually seat 10,000 in its sanctuary Thous sands of tons ot rocks had to be carved from the hillside to foim a setting for the Cathe dial, and hundreds of steps must be climbed to reach the buildings Kestaurmts Superb Inside, however, escalators lead to the uppe* - f’oors, to the museum where phases of Broth er Andre’s I.lc aie recorded in of the Apostles above the entrance at the left of this photograph furnished Lancas ter Farming by the Offihe Provincial de Publicite Quebec. Members of the Fnenly Horsemen’s Club will hold their annual Horse Show Sunday, rain or shine, at the Ralph Kurtz Farm near Denver. Sponsor, for civic projects, is the Denver Lions Club. QUARRYVILLE American Legion Carnival Saturday July 7th \ SOLANcO HIGH SCHOOL BAND 1956 “Olds 88” To Bo Awarded HORSE SHOW SUNDAY Ch’cken Corn Soup J and Cakes For Sale
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