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...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
Michael Fulker worked in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac kitchen, grew to manhood among the shanties of Ontario's towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when...
...Chateau Frontenac, a U.S. physician named Dr. George Dows Cannon wired ahead for $12-a-day accommodations. He did not mention that he and his wife were Negroes. When they showed up, they were given a fine room overlooking the St. Lawrence. For three days they had no trouble. Then, as they waited for a table in the hotel's main dining room, a headwaiter told them: "We cannot serve...
...first Quebec Conference (August, 1943), rugged Canadian Sergeant Major Emile Couture's job was to keep conferees supplied with stationery. It was also his job to pick up the unused paper when the Conference was over. One morning in the Chateau Frontenac he found a piece of paper on which were boldly written the alternative dates for Dday, the number of troops and ships to be used, data on air cover...
Braid and Brains. For their second Quebec conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were each accompanied by his country's general staff. Their top diplomatic aides were believed en route. And the number of lesser lights and technical experts ran into the hundreds, enough to fill the Chateau Frontenac's 800 rooms. No less than 300 WACs were detailed for clerical work. Both Winston