“Out of near disaster, came real progress.”

—  Judy LaMarsh

Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 6, The crisis of Confederation, p. 127

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Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister. 1924–1980

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