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...collaborator, he had been sentenced to death in France for "violence, treason, arson and looting." As soon as Canada handed him over, L'Aventure would rush him home. But L'Aventure would not sail right away. De Bernonville was in the middle of a political row between Quebec nationalists and the federal government...
...political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with a Montreal dairy and then...
...Quebec City, Premier Maurice Duplessis got a gift from an admirer: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin from Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron...
During the week Louis St. Laurent had sessions with Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and one night they drove out to the Country Club to dine with Sir Norman Brook, Secretary to the British Cabinet. This week St. Laurent was going home to Quebec City for a reception worthy of a Prime Minister...
What is now unofficially dubbed the Trans-Canada Highway (see map) starts in Halifax, follows hard-surfaced roads through the Maritimes, Quebec and eastern Ontario, then loops over graveled roads into the bush before it straightens out on to patchily paved roads through Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. It humps up over the Rockies at 5,327 feet, and goes on to Vancouver...