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Biographical note
Georges Létourneau is Vice President of Heritage Sutton, the historical society of Sutton, Québec. (www.heritagesutton.ca). A previous version of this article appeared in the society’s publication, History Sketchbooks, No. 15, November 2011.
Jay Sames is a member of Heritage Sutton and the Copy Editor / Proofreader for the English side of Cahiers d’histoire / History Sketchbooks. Though having spent much of his life as a chemical engineer, Jay has a lifelong interest in both language and history, as well as a law degree. A voracious and multifarious reader, Jay especially loves fine literature; he is a writer (locally for Le Tour in Sutton and History Sketchbooks), a hiker and a backpacker. For Le Tour, he has written from Belarus, India, Malaysia and the UK.
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