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* 177 West Fourth

North Vancouver, B.C.

Phone YO 4141

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* 1465 School Street Phone YO 4322

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

B-A NARROWS SERVICE

* 185 MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY

North Vancouver, B.C. Phone YO 2088

Benedict Oil Burner Service

* 3021 SUNNYHURST ROAD

North Vancouver, B.C. Phone YO 8141

CALDWELL INDUSTRIES Co.

* 1707 RICHMOND ROAD

North Vancouver B.C. Phone YO 8808

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* 3096 MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY

North Vancouver, B.C. Phone YO 0444

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* 3139 EDGEMONT BLVD.

North Vancouver, B.C. Phone YO 1911

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the curtain on one or two criminal cases he helped solve—such as the case of the phony sawmill.

The Montreal preventive service squad had leng been suspicious of a sawmill and woodworking shop that manufactured wooden truck bodies and store window dummies. There was something odd about the place. Piles of lumber vanished from the yard, but few if any manufactured articles came out. The supposed work- shop didn’t seem to be producing any- thing.

After keeping the shop under ob- servation for some time. the Mounties raided it and searched the building from end to end. They found nothing, until one of the men noticed a strange circumstance. The boilers were going full blast, but the drying kilns were cold and out of use.

A policeman found a cupboard at one end of the boiler-room, and tap- ped the concrete floor. It sounded hollow. The squad smashed the con- crete with a sledge-hammer and stared down at a great cavern full of pipes and vats.

“Tt was like looking into the hold of the Queen Mary,” says Superinten- dent Bordeleau.

They had found an illicit still of gigantic size, which was cheating the government out of hundreds of thou- ands of dollars in revenue. The wood- working shop was only a “front” for an alcohol factory. The main molasses tank had a capacity of 4,000 gallons.

Dummy Pump

Alcohol was shipped out by means of a dummy gas pump. Under the pretence of refuelling, truck drivers backed in and filled 45-gallon drums with the raw material for 1,000,000 hangovers.

Several men went to jail for conspir- acy to defraud the government of ex- cise tax.

And then there was the case of the scented stable. One winter night a squad of police followed a strange- looking truck to a farm near Terre- bonne, Quebec.

In a stable they found an elaborate still that was used to reclaim alcohol from perfume—an operation that some chemists said was impossible. It was the only case on record of de- natured alcohol being reclaimed on a commercial scale.

The stable reeked of perfume. When the policemen got home to their wives at 4 a.m., smelling very fragrant, they had some explaining to do.

A new Stetson hat lying on the floor of a barn at the alcohol farm stirred “Pete” Bordeleau’s curiosity. “None of

us can afford a hat as expensive as that,” he reasoned. He and others looked around for the owner of the hat.

Another policeman noticed a ladder leaning askew as if someone had climbed into the hayloft and tried to push the ladder down. Beneath the hay they found a man who had been sought by the police for years.

Supt. Bordeleau also helped crack one of the biggest foreign exchange conspiracy cases in Canada’s history. It involved the illegal transfer of $500,000 in Dominion of Canada bearer bonds across the border.

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