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TIL about Major Money, who was born in Montreal weeks before Canada, moved with his family to England as an infant, fought in the Boer War and WW I, and returned to Canada to operate a hotel on Vancouver Island, where he hosted, among others, Bob Hope, Errol Flynn and Shirley Temple.

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