Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Nicholas Kohler
Publication Date: November 10, 2025 - 04:00
How the Château Laurier helped win the Second World War
November 10, 2025
One night in 1940, Henry Borden, Gordon Scott and Robert A.C. Henry invited their boss, C.D. Howe, Canada’s wartime Minister of Munitions and Supply, to the Château Laurier, where the three men were living. The trio wanted Howe to consider their solution to a thorny problem: how to discreetly purchase the raw materials Canada needed to help fuel the Allied campaign in Europe — silk, rubber and the like — without driving up prices. Read More
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