Word: alberta
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Priest McGuigan got his start as secretary to Bishop O'Leary of Charlottetown in his native province, Prince Edward Island. When his Bishop became Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta in 1920, the youngish priest went along, still as secretary. Successively chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese, he demonstrated his particular bent as rector of St. Joseph's Major Seminary. When in 1930 he went to Saskatchewan, Archbishop McGuigan found a fine archiepiscopal palace, no seminary. He gave up his palace, went to live with his priests, founded a seminary. Likewise he commended himself quickly to his Church...
...biggest news of last week's Exposition was not these prizes, not the new Temple, not the fact that Edward of Wales's Alberta herd of Shorthorns was better than usual, not the celebration of Walter Biggar's 10th anniversary as judge of the grand champion steer but the fact that a comparative upstart breed of beef cattle had reached a stock show eminence never before attained...
Liberty's "intimate revelations" were written by Frazier ("Spike") Hunt, old-time journalist and War correspondent. He owns a ranch in Western Alberta near the Prince's ranch, proudly boasts that he and H. R. H. are "good neighbors...
Mopping their honest faces on a sizzling Alberta afternoon, district leaders of the United Farmers Party met last week to pass political judgment on Provincial Premier John Brownlee, found guilty fortnight ago of "enticing and seducing" an Alberta Government stenographer, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan (TIME, July 9). Crestfallen Premier Brownlee had nothing to say, but the judge before whom he had been tried had plenty...
Meanwhile the United Farmers' caucus, unimpressed by Mr. Justice Ives's opinion that Miss MacMillan is as serviceable as ever, had accepted Premier Brownlee's offer to spare the Party embarrassment by handing his resignation to the representative of George V in Alberta, Lieutenant Governor W. L. Walsh. No question of the United Farmers' right to continue to rule Alberta was raised. His Majesty's representative merely appointed another United Farmer, Richard Gavin Reid, Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Lands and Mines, to carry on as Premier...