In its post at remote and tiny Wabowden, Manitoba, the Hudson's Bay Company had a new fur-trade clerk. Rupert Brace Tinling, 21-year-old Royal Canadian Navy veteran from Winnipeg, had signed for a three-year apprenticeship. He liked fishing and hunting; he would have ample opportunity for both. Besides, his mother said, "he'd rather wear a parka and old trousers than the best dress suit."
To man 200 trading posts that stretch from Labrador to the Mackenzie basin, the company needed about 60 more men with Rupert Tinling's tastes. Last week, in Dominion newspapers,...
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