1186 MISCELLANEOUS DATA

Ethel Wilson, novelist; Marius Barbeau, writer; The United Nations General Assembly voted 67 Wilfrid Pelletier, music conductor; Lionel Groulx, to 1 (with 20 abstentions, Canada being one) writer; and posthumously to Brooke Claxton, first in favour of a motion of censure against South Council chairman. Sept. 7, Announcement of African policy of racial discrimination. Hon. 15,000-man increase in Canada's Armed Forces Paul Comtois, former Federal Minister of Mines and plan to train 100,000 Canadians in national and Technical Surveys, sworn in as 21st Lieuten­ survival program. Sept. 8-14, University of ant-Governor of Quebec. Oct. IS, The Canadian Montreal was host to the universities of the whole Maritime Union, Canadian labour's first organized French-speaking ^ world in unique conference. competition for the Seafarers' International Sept. 9, Negotiations in Geneva on ban of nuclear Union, formally organized. Oct. 14, Canada and tests closed in failure after 34 months. Sept. the United States conducted large-scale test of 11-12, Fourth Federal-Provincial conference on North American air defence in a 12-hour mock constitutional amendment; slight progress re­ raid simulating a surprise nuclear strike. Oct. 16, ported. Sept. 11-27, President Asgeir Asgeirson Canada extended recognition to the Government of Iceland and his wife on state visit to Canada. of Syria, recently become independent from the Sept. IB, Death of Senator J. A. Bradette of United Arab Republic. Negotiations completed Cochrane, Ont. Sept. 14> Commonwealth finance for delivery of 11,200,000 bu. of wheat to Poland, ministers at Accra, Ghana, Conference opposed estimated to be worth $20,000,000. Oct. 17, entry of Britain into European Common Market. Trade and Commerce Minister Hees announced Announcement of appointment of Dr. Francois that the Federal Government would send 24 trade Cloutier, Montreal psychiatrist, as director of the missions to other countries in the next 12 months World Federation of Mental Health, effective in an effort to increase Canada's export trade. January 1962. Sept. 15, The Sir Alexander Camp­ Oct. 18, Personnel of seven-man Royal Commission bell Building, largest of the three which will make on Banking and Finance named; Chief Justice up the new Post Office headquarters at Confedera­ Dana H. Porter, chairman. Death of Mervyn tion Heights, Ottawa, officially opened by Prime Hardie, Member of Parliament for Mackenzie Minister Diefenbaker. The United States fired River. Oct. 20, Dr. James Alexander Corry the first of a series of underground nuclear tests. formally installed as Principal of Queen's Univer­ Sept. 18, Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General sity. Oct. 28-28, Government-sponsored Resources of the United Nations, and others killed as UN for Tomorrow Conference held in Montreal to 'plane crashed en route from Leopoldville, Congo, discuss problems re the t best use of Canada's to Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. Announcement of forest, water, fish, wildlife and soil resources; completion of an electronic survey of Canada's some 700 delegates attended. Oct. 24, Prime polar continental shelf, officially locating legal Minister and Mrs. Diefenbaker left Ottawa for a limits of the country. Sept. 19, Tunisian United six-day official visit to Japan. Oct. 25, A plaque Nations official Nahmoud Khiari, UN chief of commemorating the achievements of Sir William civil operations in the Congo, held truce talks Cornelius Van Home, Canadian Pacific Railway with Katanga President; a cease-fire was agreed builder, unveiled at Windsor Station, Montreal. upon to begin Sept. 20. Sept. 20, Mongi Slim of Oct. 27-29, Centenary of Montreal's oldest regi­ Tunisia elected President of the General Assembly ment, the Victoria Rifles of Canada, celebrated of the United Nations, the first African to hold in Montreal. Oct., U.S. Secretary of Labour that position. Sept. 22, Completion announced Goldberg and officials of his Department visited by the Department of Northern Affairs and Nation­ Ottawa returning an earlier official visit of Labour al Resources of first aerial survey of wildlife in­ Minister Starr and Canadian officials to Washing­ habiting the Arctic Islands. Sept. 25, President ton; these visits, the first of their kind, were the Kennedy addressed the United Nations General result of an arrangement for an informal exchange Assembly for the first time, challenging the U.S.S.R. of views, experience and information on labour to a "race for peace". Her Majesty Queen Eliza­ questions. beth opened the seventh Commonwealth Parlia­ mentary Conference, the largest gathering of Commonwealth parliamentarians ever to meet in November: Nov. S, A son, Viscount Linley of the 50-year history of the association. Sept. SO, Nymans, was born to Her Royal Highness Princess Dr. C. J. Mackenzie, President of the Atomic Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon; christened Energy Control Board and former President of David Albert Charles, Dec. 20, 1961. U Thant the National Research Council, announced his of Burma unanimously elected acting Secretary- retirement from public life. Death of Onesime General of the United Nations. Nov. 7, Agricul­ Gagnon, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec since ture Minister Hamilton outlined Canada's plan 1958. for a World Food Bank before the FAO con­ ference in Rome. Woodrow S. Lloyd succeeded T. C. Douglas as of . Nov. October: Oct. 1, Establishment of the Organization 8, John P. Robarts succeeded Leslie M. Frost as for Economic Co-operation and Development Premier of . Nov. 9, Plans for a Canadian (OECD) including Canada and the United States Museum of History, to be completed by July 1, and 18 other Atlantic nations; Finance Minister 1967, outlined by Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Fleming elected chairman. World ploughing Ralph L. Erdman, Lethbridge, Alta., awarded championship won at Grignon, France, by William world championship wheat title at the Royal C. Dixon of Brampton, Ont. Oct. 6, Canadian Agricultural Winter Fair, ; title for rye ploughing championship won at Belleville, Ont., by went to Harry N. Gorsline of Demorestville, Ont.; for oats to Devos Brothers of Bruxelles, Man; for Cyril Heynes of Emerson, Man. t Petitions bearing 141,000 names from the Canadian Committee for potatoes to A. R. Chorney of East Selkirk, Man; the Control of Radiation Hazards presented to and for flax to John E. Cotton of Kentville, Man. Prime Minister Diefenbaker; at the same time Nov. 15, Franklin Arbuckle elected President of Parliament Hill was picketed by members of the the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Nov. 17, Voice of Women and university students organized Shirley Earley, Kerwood, Ont., won Queen s by the Combined Universities Campaign for Guineas, the top prize for 4-H Club members, Nuclear Disarmament. Oct. 8, Death of Mr. at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair for her Justice Alphonse Fournier, senior French-speaking Aberdeen Angus steer. Nov. 19, Third assembly puisne judge of the Exchequer Court of Canada. of the World Council of Churches opened in New Oct. 9, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt officiated at opening Delhi, India. Nov. 27, President Arturo Fron- of Memorial University, St. John's, Nfld. Oct. diai and Mrs. Frondizi of Argentina arrived in 10-16, President Urho Kekkonen of Finland and Ottawa for a four-day state visit to Canada. Nov. Mrs. Kekkonen on state visit to Canada. Oct. 11, 28, Marcel Cadieux, Deputy Under Secretary of The National Defence Medical Centre, a tri- State for External Affairs, elected to the Inter­ service hospital to serve military personnel in major national Law Commission, the first time Canada areas of Ontario and Quebec, officially opened. has been represented on the Commission.