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Great Layman. Chairman of the War Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...
Somewhere in the vast wilderness beyond the rocky Laurentian hills a giant of World War II is rising to harness the power of Canada's white waters for the production of aluminum. Men have been toiling in these wooded hills, in rain and snow and ice, to build a dam which will rank among the world's greatest power developments...
...those who prefer more northern climates, Lac Beauport and the Laurentian Mountains in Quebee appear to be the choice spots. They report an average of 37 inches of snow, most of it fresh over a firm base...
Farther north, out of reach of the majority of exam-ridden skiers, the Laurentian Mountains offer two inches of new powder on a 16-inch base...
Instead the prison train went north from Montreal into the Laurentian Mountains, and Werra, seeing his plans upset, dived out the train window into a snowbank. Speaking French fluently, he had no difficulty hitching lifts with habitants for about 140 miles, through Ottawa to the St. Lawrence. He paddled across to the U.S. at night in a stolen boat, landing near Ogdensburg, N.Y. with his ears badly frozen...