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King was not quite accurate. The hills and valleys flanking Quebec's swift Gatineau River teem with habitations and inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
...Just Joe. In this setting dwell some of the most primitive white people in North America, the Gatineau mountaineers. They scratch out a meager living by farming and lumbering. Faith healers, seers and hermits abound among them. Families sometimes grow so big that parents run out of names. The woods are populated with brothers named Black Luke and Red Luke, Little Joe, Big Joe and Just...
...record), he had a hand in every key Canadian development. At his death he gave his Ottawa residence, Laurier House, crystal ball and all, as a museum and place of historical research. He left the 500 rolling acres of Kingsmere, ruins and all, to be added to the adjoining Gatineau National Park. Tens of thousands of Canadians now visit the two places, learning to think of their colorless Prime Minister as one of the most colorful Canadians of all time...
...removed to make room for a park. The capital area's 900 square miles of farm and wood lands, lakes, rivers and city blocks would be molded into one panorama, to be viewed from a 140-ft. World War II memorial tower atop one of the nearby Gatineau hills...
...schedule ground on. Sunday afternoon King dropped by and drove his guest to the Gatineau Hills for a windy walk. Monday morning Clem Attlee sat by a coal fire at Earnscliffe and was interviewed by reporters. He talked only in generalities, about foreign trade chiefly. Then, as visiting dignitaries always do, he stepped out to Ottawa's Confederation Square, laid a wreath at the foot of the city's World War I memorial...