Michael Best. Saturday writer Michael Best spent three months crisis-crossing Canada in search of the stories of triumph and tragedy that helped carve(...)

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Michael Best. Saturday writer Michael Best spent three months crisis-crossing Canada in search of the stories of triumph and tragedy that helped carve(...)

Date10/31/1974

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Best, Michael (subject)

Spremo, Boris (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Michael Best. Saturday writer Michael Best spent three months crisis-crossing Canada in search of the stories of triumph and tragedy that helped carve out a modern country from an empty wilderness. This is the third of his eight-part series on the taming of a nation.

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