Word: frontenac
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Petrofina, which has extensive holdings in Africa, Mexico and the Middle East, was invited into Canada by a veteran Canadian oilman, Alfredo Campo, 51, who is now Canadian Petrofina's president. Campo was sales manager for another big company (McColl-Frontenac) when he decided to set up his own firm in 1953. He tried to raise capital in Canada but failed to interest any of his fellow countrymen. Said Campo philosophically: "Canadians are too cautious." Finally, he got in touch with Petrofina's head office in Brussels and negotiated the backing...
...miles of railway through the most populous areas of Canada, and some 4,000 miles of branch lines into the northern U.S. Midwest. C.P.R. telegraphs, grain elevators, stockyards and abattoirs border the tracks. At principal stops are C.P.R.'s 15 hotels, including Quebec's famed Chateau Frontenac and the tourist meccas at Banff and Lake Louise. The company operates a fleet of ocean-going liners and freighters, as well as Canadian Pacific Air Lines, with routes to Asia, Australia, Latin America and Europe. C.P.R. also controls Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co., the world's biggest lead and zinc...
...Winnipeg last week, William John Eccles, a University of Manitoba history lecturer, said flatly that history has been giving Frontenac far more than his due. Eccles spent most of the past three years poring over musty records in the Ottawa archives and in Paris. Eccles' research, presented in a paper to the Canadian Historical Association, portrays Frontenac as a wastrel, a bungler and a timid commander whose 19-year governorship almost ruined the Quebec colony...
About the only heroic thing that Eccles found on Frontenac's record was the size of the count's debts. At 44, Frontenac owed $440,000. He had tried to ease the burden by marrying the daughter of a wealthy advocate, but that scheme failed when the daughter was disinherited. Finally, to escape his creditors and unloved wife, he wangled a royal appointment as governor of New France...
...hotheaded, overbearing man, Frontenac quarreled constantly with other colonial officials, not only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac was afraid to meet the Iroquois ; he sat in his Quebec château and let the colony's outer defenses run down. "[Because of] his weakness and irresoluteness in the face of danger," Eccles says, "no river was safe any more, every portage was a potential ambush...