It’s hard to impress North Hatley, Quebec. For the quiet village of some 700 souls, nestled among pastoral farms and verdant hills surrounding Lake Massawippi, 140 kilometres east of Montreal, has seen scores of millionaires, artists and celebrities come and go since its founding as a municipality precisely one hundred years ago this autumn. The media tycoon John Bassett used to play tennis against the novelist Hugh MacLennan at the North Hatley Club; Premier René Lévesque held his first cabinet meeting at the Auberge Hatley; a Saudi prince and a Pakistani president once gazed upon the abundance of fresh water and green trees as though upon paradise; Leonard Cohen, Pierre Trudeau and Nobel laureates from Harvard came to visit Frank Scott, the brilliant legal scholar and poet.

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