Posted AT 8:59 PM EST on 28/03/08
Shrinking Giant
Montreal — — Samuel de Champlain gets all the accolades these days. But right up there among Canada's colonizers are the newspaper barons and entrepreneurs who waded deep into the forests of Eastern Canada about a century ago to build paper mills — and entire towns to house the sturdy workers who came to depend on them — largely to feed the presses back in New York, Chicago and other U.S. metropolises.
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