Along with his many other distinctions, Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick is probably Canada's largest single foreign investor. His holdings, worth some $50 million by his own estimate, are scattered from western Ontario to the St. Lawrence River. Canada's McCormick-land now includes two big paper mills, two hydroelectric plants, some 8,179 sq. mi. of leased timber lands.
Last week aging (72) Bertie McCormick traveled north to inaugurate, with the help of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, the latest McCormick power project, a $15 million, 90,000-h.p. hydroelectric plant on Quebec's north shore...
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