At the start of my career, when I was an instrumentation and controls technician in New Brunswick, I had been amazed by a power-transmission system made by Dorr-Oliver; seventeen years later, I boughtthe company. While working at the paper plant in Matane in 1968, I did some maintenance work on our brand new “Black Clawson,” a remarkable paper machine; in 1996, I acquired that company too. In 1963, when I was twenty-one years old, I signed on as an apprentice with the Canadia