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and they had the money, so they loaned it to him, whether it was
S50 or $100,000.
"But he never asked people to invest in something that he
wouldn't invest in himself," Nap adds.
Napoleon Cantin donated two -and -a -half tons of papers and
documents concerning his grandfather and the history of St.
Joseph to the Archives in Toronto, but he retained enough for a
fascinating archives of his own displayed in a building behind his
house on the lakefront of St. Joseph.
Narcisse Cantin, one of Canada's most colourful entre-
preneurs, was unique in that he lived his whole life pursuing a
dream. Time has shown, perhaps that the only fault of the vision
of the "wizard of St. Joseph" was that it was ahead of its time.
VILLAGE SQUIRE/AUGUST 1980 PG. 17