Man Proposes, God DisposesIn 1910, young Pierre Maturi bid farewell to his comfortablebourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Albertain search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Somesixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada beforehe returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Likethat of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of adventure andhardshipperilous journeys, railroad construction in