Word: grandees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Of the building fund, a Wall Street banking group raised $11 million. The New York Central put up the land and with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad another $10 million more. (As a big New York Central stockholder, which now gets a yearly rental for the land on...
In the midst of it all, St. Laurent found time for his family in the yellow brick house on the Grande Allée. There he was Père de famille (father of the family), and he filled the role in the best French Canadian manner. His children used...
An Evening Walk. Every evening after dinner, Père St. Laurent went walking with his youngsters on the Grande Allée or on the nearby Plains of Abraham. Thursday evenings were set aside for the comics, with father reading aloud. He had his own ideas about what was...
After his children were married, St. Laurent's big house on the Grande Allée became a different place. Most of the week it seemed deserted, but on Sundays and an occasional evening it was more crowded than ever. Sons, daughters, in-laws and grandchildren gathered for regular sessions...
Today, whenever he can get away from Ottawa, St. Laurent makes a beeline for Quebec and the family house in the Grande Allée. It gives him a chance to surround himself with his family, of whom he never tires. (On a New Brunswick holiday this summer, the St...