quiet town of 12,000 inhabitants 100 mi. east of Montreal on the St. Lawrence offered little
to do for non French speaking expatriates, except the flying and the thought of a short duty
assignment. On arrival at the Hotel St. Louis, Three Rivers, there was time to meet the
other pilots assigned to the station, some were friends from Cartierville & Trenton others
new from other stations. The brush fires were still burning up north in Sept. of 41 with
flight visibility's greatly reduced at only a couple of hundred feet of altitude.
