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2 MAXCY continued from page 1 gether. < The haunted house took a team ef- i fort and everyone from the dorm worked 1 together. Hall government officers, < R.A.s and residents, including fresh- < men, all worked together on the project, Ho said. 1 Many of those who worked on the haunted house saw the project as an opportunity to get to know other students in their dorm. "Lots of people who didn't know Voters want Quebec to stay in Canada Associated Press MONTREAL ? Federalists who advocate a united Canada headed toward a hairline victory Monday over supporters of Quebec's independence movement in a dramatic secession referendum that will leave deep scars behind. With 90 percent of the 22,400 polling stations reporting, the federalists held a lead of 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent for the separatists. Federalists began celebrating at their headquarters, optimistic because some of their strong districts in bilingual Montreal had not yet reported. About 82 percent of Quebeckers are F rench-speaking, and early returns showed 60 percent of them voting for separation. As expected, roughly 90 per cent of English-speaking and immigrant Quebeckers were voting No. Whatever the outcome, the vote will leave Quebec and Canada divided. Tens of thousands of Canadians from other provinces joined marches, rallies and vigils beseeching Quebec to stay. A separatist victory could also spell economic turmoil for Canada ? and perhaps the greatest political crisis of its history ? as it loses one-fourth of its people and one-sixth of its land. It would be a fracture without precedent among prosperous Western democracies. A narrow federalist victory would leave defeated nationalists looking for scapegoats and crafting a future campaign to build a sovereign, French-speaking nation. Tomorrow, almost half of Quebec will be mourning either what was or ' what could have been," wrote Quebecbased columnist Andre Picard in the Toronto Globe and Mail. The wounds will take a long time to heal." Polls opened at 10 a.m. EST, and campaign leaders and election officials a expected an exceptionally large turnout , ?perhaps over 90 percent ? and long lines formed at many polling stations. In Verdun, a working-class suburb of Montreal, unemployed Bertrand Fontaine, 48, explained his Yes vote. "I worked 18 years for a company, " /l ?/?? I* ! Vwaon nnomnlnvoH for h?n OUU UUTT X TV/ IAX/U UUVu<|/iv^w v..years," he said. That's enough. Maybe C with new companies here, I'd have new chances. I have nothing to lose." Annette Dupuis, 83, said she was proud to cast a No vote in the Montreal suburb of Anjou. "My country is Canada," she said. "This is very important to me. If the Yes vote wins... I will shed tears. It will be the death of Canada." Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a Quebecker committed to keeping Canada intact, voted in his hometown of Shawinigan, but offered no predictions. The separatists' most charismatic voice, parliamentary opposition leader Lucien Bouchard, said Quebeckers should take pride in the campaign ? one of the few times in world history where citizens were offered a vote on whether to secede. "We demonstrated in Quebec that we are a democracy, that we can talk to each other," Bouchard said. The other top separatist leader, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, said he was confident independence was on the j way. "Quebec will win," he said. The separatists trailed early in the campaign, which started in September. They pulled into a narrow lead in opinion polls after Bouchard, who lost a leg to a near-fatal disease last year, took charge of the campaign and galvanized supporters with emotional speeches. The federalists steadied themselves in the closing week with rallies across Canada that expressed support for Quebeckers and national unity. By the end, pollsters concluded the * race was a dead heat. They gave an edge to the separatists among decided voters, but suggested a majority of the undecided voters could tilt toward staying in Canada. Tm hopeful for the No," Elizabeth Stewart said after voting in a largely anglophone Montreal neighborhood. *1 have a lot of relatives who are Frenchspeaking and are on the No side? they just don't say it in public." Chretien's federal government has refused to say how it would respond to a Yes vote. It could accept Quebec's independence, attempt a legal challenge, or try to force a Canada-wide referendum or a second one in Quebec. The separatists, if they win, would not declare independence immediately. They have offered to negotiate for up to a year on a new economic and political partnership between Canada and an independent Quebec but could unilaterally declare independence at any point. The jach other came together and made it worth while for us," Taylor said. 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