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Authority record- CA QUA08819
- Person
- 1924-
John De Bondt is an author, best known for his book, "Canada on Wheels."
De Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie
- CA QUA00347
- Person
- 1890-1970
French general and first president of the Fifth Republic. Fought in the First World War, form which he emerged as an enthusiastic advocate of the air-armour combination on which Germany was to found its blitzdrieg of 1940. With the fall of France in June 1940 de Gaulle fled to England to lead the "Free French" cause.
- CA QUA02308
- Person
- 1921-1991
George Theodore de Hueck was born in Toronto in 1921. He was the son of the Baron Boris de Hueck and the Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty. He graduated from Queen's University in 1948 as a member of Arts '46 having taken time off to serve in the Canadian military during World War II. As a Lieutenant in the Canadian military he was appointed to a position in the combat teams under the US forces in 1943 when Canada decided to participate with the United States in the Kiska Operations in response to the threat to continental security. While at Queen's de Hueck was editor of the Queen's Commentator, president of the International Club and recipient of the Sir Wilfred Laurier Scholarship. In 1953 he founded a consulting firm for insurance companies, a job he continued to do until his death in Mobile, Alabama in 1991.
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