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...Joshua Then and Now comes in. Richler's Joshua is the fact-based story of a poor Jewish writer growing up in Montreal who, by pluck and a marriage above his station, rises to most-envied-status to live among wealthy WASPs in the city's posh suburb of Westmount...
...early '60s that resentment against Anglophone domination led to the first stirrings of radical separatist feelings, embodied by the tiny Quebec Liberation Front (F.L.Q.). Terrorist F.L.Q. members planted bombs in mailboxes outside homes in Montreal's affluent Anglophone suburb of Westmount. Separatism received a huge burst of publicity in 1967, when the late Charles de Gaulle gave his notorious "Vive le Québec libre!" speech at Montreal's city hall. Around the same time, portions of Quebec's 850,000-member union movement turned to Marxist ideology, launching widespread strikes and demonstrations. In 1969, when Montreal police and firemen went...
Housing prices slumped in Westmount, Mount Royal, Hampstead and Montreal's outlying English-speaking suburbs as homeowners left the province. In the first
Ronald I. Cohen '64, of Leverett House and Westmount, Que, (business manager) is not pictured...
Name Dropper. In Westmount, Que., after an embarrassing second thought, campaign workers hastily ripped down their posters urging: DON'T BE A DOCTOR