Page 45 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

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City of Quebee, the shield bearing the Arms of the King of France which General
Murmy had taken Crom the gates of Quebec in 1759. The City of Hnstings, the
depository of this trophy since the conquest, having consent.ed to retlll'TI it in
recognition of services rendered by Canadian soldiers during the great Wll.r
(9th September).-Official reception at Quebee of the delegates of the inter-
parliumentary Union (Odober 113th).--Federal elections, libernls retain power,
(Odober 29th).-Judgment of the l'rivy COllneil defining the rights and privileges
of federal and provincial governments to the beds of rivers. The Province of
Quebec retains o,vnership of beds of rivers and beach lots, (.:{ovember 25th).-
lleception at Quebec of 300 Frencb-Canadians l'rom the Prairie Provinces, (De-
cernber 24th).
192G.-The llew system of registering births, marringe, and deaths in the Province of Quebee
is put into force, (January Ist).-R.evisud Sta,tutes of the Province of Quebec
published, (Janual'y lst).-Opening of the third session of the 1ôth Legislature,
(January 7th).-8anction of the law porhibiting the export of eleetric energy
developed in the Province of Quebec, (l\fo,rch 22nd).--Prorogation of the Legis-
lature, ('\Iarch 24th).-Congress of the Kationai Council on Education held
in Montreal, (April 6th) .-The governrnent of the Province orgu,nizes an expedi-
tion to ng va ta determine the potential forces of MeCleau Falls, (Ma,y 18th).
-ConAagration at R.ivière du Loup, 57 buildings destroyed entailing loss of
$1,000,000, (June 2nd).-Confel'ence of Prime i'vIinistel's of the Canadial1 pro-
viuees in Ottawa, (.June 7th).-Lord \Villiltgdon appointed Governor General
of Canada, (June Sth).-Encha.ristic Congl'ess held in Chicago, thousa,nds of
Co.nl1.diaus ta.Jting part, the Proyinee offieially represeuted by His Honour Hon.
N. Pérodeau, Lieutenant-Governor and the Hon. L. A. Tl1.scheren,u, Prime
Minister (June 16th).-Unveiling of an historieal tablet to the memory of the
patriots of 1837, at "La plaee des Patriotes", l'I'Iontreal, (June 24th).-l\igr
Raymond Marie Rouleau, Bishop of Valleyfield, appointed Arehbishop of Que-
bec (July 13th).-The leader (lf the oppositioJl in Ottawa" el1.11ed by Lord Byng,
Governor Geueral, to l'orm a Cabinet. (July 13th).-Death anIon. 1. O. Dnvid,
Senator and historil1.n, (August 24th).-fedel'al elections, liherals returned to
power, (September 14th).-Congress of French Medical men of North America
held in Montrea,l, (September 21st).-Swearing in of Lord \villingdon as Gover-
nor GeneroJ of Canada, (2nd October).-Opening of the Imperial Conference in
London, Cfltl.ada is rcpresented by the Rt. Hon. \V. 1. Mackenzie King, Prime
IVlinister and the Hon, Ernest Lapointe, Minister of Justice, (19 October).-
Inauguration of the Canadian Students' Home, in Paris, by H. n. H. the Ptince
of \Vales, the Hon. L. A. Taschereau, Prime Minister, repl'esentmg the Province,
(30th October).-·Installation of His Grace Raymond Marie llouleau as Arch-
bishop of Qll('llee, (8th November).-Mr. Donat Raymond, appointed Senator
for La Vallière, (20th December).

12lh Governor G'eneTa/, Lord WiUingdon (192710 .... )
J927.~Destruction by fire of the Lauricr-l\\lace t,p.eatre in Montrel1.1, causing the del1.th of
77 childl'en, (9th Jo nuary).-opening of the 4th session of the lGtb. LegisJa.ture,
(llth Jl1.nuary). 'Appointemnt of MI'. J. H. Dillon, as Minister without port-
folio in the TasC\llel'eaU Cnbinet, (lOth .Ianuary).-Death of )tir. Arthur Plante,
member of tlle Legislative Asscmbly fol' Beauharnois, (31st Janul1.ry).-The
Privy Couneil dehvers judgrnent definitely granting Ne\doundlulld the terri-
torr under dispnte which reduees the area of the province by about 112,000 square
miles.(lst l\Ial'ch).-Proroll;:ltion of the Legislature, (1st April).-Centenaryofthe
birth of the Canadinn PO(~1 Octave CrnllIlzie, (16th April).-DissoJution of the
Legislature, generalclections fixed for the 16th May, (l9th May) .-The Mercier
da-m on the Gatineau, the third largest in the World, commenced in 1926, is
completed, (20th April).-ML Alfred Leduc, 3,ppointed l'I'Iiruster without port-
folio in the Taschereau Cabinet, (25th April) .-Liberals returned to power in
general cieetionR, (16th May).-Death of Mf. ~érée Morin, representing Ka-
,mouraska, in the Legislative Assembly, (9th June).-Jubilee of the Canadian
Confederation eaused elaborate celebration tbroughout aH the Provinces (lst
July).-Departure of the xCUl'sionists of the Universityofl\:fontrealto the West-