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Open Book: The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was formed in the wake of the First World War and with the growing recognition of the importance of aviation for diverse civilian and military purposes. Stories of the organization’s people, aircraft, operations, and technological innovations are told in the new book Pathway to the Stars: 100 Years of the Royal Canadian Air Force, by retired RCAF Lieutenant General Michael Hood and Canadian business leader Tom Jenkins, who has a decades-long involvement with the RCAF.
It was a dilemma, medical students needed cadavers for dissection. But procuring cadavers was illegal. In nineteenth-century Montreal there was only one solution. And it was ghoulish.