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They had come from places like Kapuskasing, or Moose Jaw, playing on junior clubs in arenas like the one in Kitchener.

I probably should avoid picking favorites but, for me, a highlight of the Canada showcase was David Dunlap’s article about The Times’s role in the creation of Kapuskasing, Ontario, the town you can’t avoid when traveling the northern route of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario.

Thousands of tons of newsprint left Kapuskasing each year, much of it bound for the clamorous loading docks of The Times’s headquarters off Times Square.

The people of Kapuskasing had a different name for the company: Uncle Spruce.

In 1924, he and James C. Kimberly canoed together down the Kapuskasing and Mattagami Rivers, all the way to Moose Factory on James Bay.