After the festivities, check into the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, a hotel that resembles a castle.

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The animal had escaped from a fenced pasture on the farm of Laurier Sauve, who let others keep cattle there.

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Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, west of Toronto, plans a branch campus next year in Brantford, 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.

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Chateau Laurier was a pet project of railway mogul Charles Melville Hays who insisted on the finest Italian marble, Indiana limestone and European crystal.

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Maybe Laurier was just a man 100 years before his time.

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Laurier also pointed out that cornstarch bags, far from being a worthy alternative to regular polyethylene, could in the long run be more harmful to the environment.

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Laurier would be thrilled.

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